Never used sessions nor cared about the date I added an episode, so that’s why I didn’t know about it I guess 
Everytime you update page or episode count (or mark something Finished), it creates a new session entry… So in a sense, you have without realizing it 
Anyway that’s cool. I like seeing the monthly (or hourly, for reading speed) stats as accurately as possible, and sometimes use it to correct stuff like entering the wrong page number. I didn’t realize the session stuff existed either, until various forum discussions.
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And here I was feeling accomplished at 84 
J/k it’s obviously not a competition, and it’s super cool that y’all have added so many!!
Btw I have 14 things on my “I’m Reading” (I need to work on that ). On the dashboard they all show up (with the sidescroll), but on my profile it only shows 10, even tho it also side scrolls. Any particular reason for the inconsistency?
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Technically not. I just checked the data manager on a computer, but it says “no session” for a book I finished. I can edit the date I finished on basic info too. 
Same with movies. Maybe the implementation is different. Maybe, if you have sessions already, finishing the book will automatically add the last part as a new session?
Seasons are the only thing that seem to create sessions for me, in which case it seems I do need the data manager to edit the watch date (but, again, that’s not something I have ever cared about, so I didn’t know about it).
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If you never mark progress any partial progress on a book and simply mark finished, then no reading sessions are created… as that just introduces unnecessary duplicate data 
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Thanks for confirming!
I could now just delete all seasons I ever watched and say I am a pure “no session” user 
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Ahh, I see. Thx for the extra details
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A few highlights for today:
- added a ‘recently reviewed’ sort for book & video search
- redid browse page… removed the overabundance of swimlanes, added ‘recently reviewed’.
Next Up:
- add ‘saved’ reviews, with hearts
- add ‘collections’
WRT ‘collections’, collections will be custom lists of (book OR video) items that will be orderable, with a title, optional descriptions. They’ll also have their own page.
The current custom list functionality will move to simply operating as personal library tags. That means you’ll be able to do multi filters on them.
Why add collections now? Well, they’ll be pretty easy to do and it’s a good way to get another method of engagement / recommendation for users in new languages.
Edit: Also, collections will be ‘public’ by default, but toggleable.
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Oh, I like this filter; I like seeing new reviews for books.
Interesting. So we could create curated lists and share those lists? I like it. That could be an easy tie-in with the book clubs; having one handy list linking to all the books the club has read… Or recommendation lists. I bet we’ll see fun things for these in the future! Will we be able to search for collections specifically?
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Yep! It will be a top level promoted item, taggable & likeable. I’m thinking of including them in browse as well, filtered by likes & level tag. I think it will be very cool and quite easy to do.
It’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time… now I have an excuse to do it properly
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Wow, this sounds like a lot of fun! I’m looking forward to them! Another question - by likeable/taggable, do you mean we’ll be able to mark them somehow so we can easily find them again? Like, if nikoru creates a neat collection, I can mark it somehow so it’s a click away to find from my own profile?
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Yes. It’ll just be the heart icon, just like you see here on discourse
And then you’ll be able to see your saved collections on your profile under ‘collections’.
I’m doing that currently for reviews.
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Oooh, can’t wait!
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Not writing a product request yet, since I’m not 100% sure of the usefulness of the idea: would it be helpful to anyone else if they could follow another user, but only on a certain language profile? Like, if you follow user X’s JP profile, you’d only see book/movie updates when they update their JP profile, not when they update their KR profile.
I dunno, I was just thinking it could be nice if you only want to see what someone’s reading/watching if you know they’re already at a certain level. Like, maybe I know that user X is a fairly high-level JP learner, and I’m interested in what they’re up to, but they’re a relatively new KR learner, and I’m not as interested in seeing their updates since I’m an advanced KR learner and not as interested in the graded readers/children’s books/whatever they’re consuming. (Just as an example.)
It feels a bit weird to pigeonhole users this way (“oh, I only like seeing xxx’s updates if they’re reading stuff in German”), but the follow system is so bare-bones as-is that maybe it wouldn’t matter?
Alternatively, maybe it would be a better idea to have a level filter on the Activity Feed? “I only want to see updates on books from levels 20-25 and movies from levels 10-15”, for example. You could use it to get inspiration for more stuff to read at your current level.
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I’m almost positive I have a product request somewhere asking for levels to be displayed on the activity feed, although not in a filterable way.
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I can see why someone would want that, not only due to the potential differences in levels like you mentioned, but also because the type of content people consume may differ from language to language: imagine following someone because you share their love of reading German philosophy only to discover their Japanese feed is nothing but magical boy BL manga… 
(Not that you can’t love both!)
On the other hand, I want to see what everyone’s reading in all their languages. 
I think this would be a worthwhile addition to filter out content that isn’t suitable for your current level, especially in the global feed. 
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That was another potential reason in my mind as well. Some people get into languages for specific things, and/or maybe the stuff they’re normally into (magical boy BL manga) isn’t as much of a thing, so they pivot to another interest (Nietzsche).
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I’m glad to see this new feature! I think I’ve run into a bug, however - for video, it doesn’t seem to be finding movies, only TV shows, and if I set it to ‘recently reviewed’ + ‘movies’, the first result doesn’t have any reviews.
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Ah, nice catch. Yeah I should auto filter out books without reviews too. I’m assuming the filters you had on removed all the items with reviews. Will fix today.
Small Product Update:
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You can now save reviews! Just click the heart icon on any review and you can later view those on your profile’s ‘review’ page with the ‘saved reviews’ toggle clicked. It’s also another way to show appreciation to all of our hardworking reviewers!
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there’s now a twitter follow icon at the page footer. I’ll be tweeting more regularly now, give me a follow at @learnnatively
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On Twitter, I will begin highlighting certain reviews i think are awesome. For anyone who has their profile listed as ‘public’, I’ll assume that’s ok. If you’re listed as ‘Semi-Private’ or ‘Private’ I’ll get your approval before promoting. If you want to preemptively tell me yes or no, go ahead and DM me!
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i may have fixed some intermittent issues with discord / discourse one-boxing and pulling in images and whatnot. We’ll see.
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@Mizuki This should now be fixed.
And now full-steam ahead on collections.
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