#173 - When Users Show The Way...

Checking in with your users on, seemingly, minor decisions can be so illuminating! There've been two such cases in the last week.

We recently decided to move the ability to filter book lists by format higher up the priority stack.

For stats, we group 'paperback' and 'hardcover' together under 'print', but I wasn't sure if, on the whole, the people who cared for the format filter also needed to distinguish between the type of print book when browsing.

So, I went to Instagram to poll our followers. Normally, there's a clear answer either way...
 

However, in the meantime, rehabofabookworm posted the following comment: 

And suddenly a new path that satisfied everybody became clear! 🤩

Then, a few days later, I wanted to let people know how we were thinking about an upcoming highly anticipated feature:

And as much as we had loads of people saying they loved the idea of having a monthly version of our annual template, we had a handful of people saying: "Can we have something different for the monthly template? I don't want the excitement/novelty of the annual template to wear off!"

And that really resonated with me...

I think they may be right! 😌
 

And we made great progress with the speed of book pages and the Community page! While sometimes the content for the Community Reviews and Similar Users panes may take a few seconds to show up, the initial page loads will always be fast! 😎

If you find this not to be the case, let me know!
 

I hope that the app is ready for our transition to distributed database architecture and that I've finished the piece of Librarian tooling that I've been developing on and off over the last few weeks.

We're currently a month delayed on the 2024 roadmap for the product and I don't want to get too much further behind! 😅
 

I'm now only a day behind my tough reading schedule for my Women's Prize Shortlist Reading Challenge. Today I've got to finish off River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure and read a third of V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night. 3.4 books to finish in ten days. I can do it! 💪🏾

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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