#151 - The H2 2023 Community Roadmap

#151

                July 31, 2023

            #151 - The H2 2023 Community Roadmap

                Highlights from the Community roadmap, an oft-requested feature that's finally live, and upcoming new stats options for Plus users. 📊

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#151 | 31 July 2023

Community Roadmap

After going through Twitter, Instagram, emails, my project tracker, the roadmap, liaising with the team, and stirring in some of my gut and intuition, I've put together the Community-focused roadmap that'll be a focus for the rest of this year.

We're all so excited about it — especially our volunteer Librarians who had a little teaser on our catch-up call the other week 😁 — and I thought I'd share a few highlights with y'all...

We've always known that this page needs a complete overhaul. A lot of people don't know that there's a dedicated Buddy Reads section, or a Similar Users one for that matter!

What else is coming?

Book clubs, including tools to select books and schedule meetings, and of course we're going to get Rob's machine learning magic in there
A new readalong feature that'll support large groups of people reading a book together
A way to curate a list with a custom order and then share that to your profile
The ability to post an "open" buddy read on StoryGraph and have interested users click to join
A way to send in-app recommendations to friends

And so much more!

We'll also be working on a few new privacy features, including the ability to block users and mark books as "private".

And, as always, people who love StoryGraph because it's not "just another social media app" need not worry at all. 😇

Since last time...

I did manage to finally finish the most-requested reading challenge feature in the history of the product! 🎉

Now users can add any book to a reading challenge from the prompt pages themselves!

Next two weeks

I'm yet to do my planning for August so things may change, but I suspect I will get around to giving Plus users the ability to view their stats for any custom time period. If things are going really well, perhaps the Compare Stats feature will be fully upgraded too, with all of the new view options. 🤞🏾

What I'm reading

Getting back into R.F. Kuang's Poppy War series earlier than I would have if not for a buddy read with a friend!

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)

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