Nobody clicked the button

The experiment I described last week?
 

 

Looks like nobody is interested. 😢

How many people weren't interested?



Turns out that only 0.21% of page views related to the Personal Recommendation dashboard.

I don't even know if any non-paying users ended up there!

There were also a couple of messages asking: so, how do I find this personal recommendation page?

Maybe what looks like a business model problem is in fact a design problem... 🤔

More on this below. 😌
 

Last week
 

The News Feed got a little smarter! 🤓

No more of this:
 

Only this: 
 

😍
 

And now there's a way to see if any books you've already identified as 'to-read' fit into your reading challenges:
 

Feature coming to a Browse Books page near you soon. 😎

 

This week

Currently, a lot of user pain points are related to the site's design and user experience.

I started gathering feedback on this last week and will begin sketching out new designs and user flows.

The StoryGraph could do with a design that takes advantage of the increased screen space on desktop. 

However, I spotted these charts yesterday and am not so sure that developing one is an effective use of time:




Rob's been working on an update to our import book tool that will hopefully reduce the number of messages we receive that go something like this:
 

"I tried to add the English version of this Japanese book. I typed in the title in English, but it still returned the book in Japanese."
 

We should be deploying that this week! 😁
 

What I'm reading right now 

Going to start dipping into these as part of my Stephen King chronological read:
 

Short stories aren't my favourite, but I'm looking forward to this book as I've heard great things.

What's a short story collection that you loved?

Have a great week,

Nadia

P.S. If you know a friend who's an avid mood reader or would enjoy following along with this journey, please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)
 

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