Dark mode, SSL Error Fix, UI – Goodreads: Book Reviews Review

A handy app, but a couple requests after using for a couple years: - This is one of my only apps that doesn’t have a dark mode. I’ve opened goodreads many times only to close it quickly because it’s somewhat painful to use at night. This goes for the website as well. It’s blinding and not something I ever use at night. Please get over your brand recognition or whatever is holding you back from creating a dark mode. - Goodreads seems to require a faster/better connection than most apps. The homepage often takes a very long time to load. When I search for a book while on a slower public connection, I often get a pop up notification that says “Unexpected Error. An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.” That’s fine, but the message pops up many times, making it impossible to exit without clicking “Ok” often over twenty times. I usually have to force quit the app and try again. This has been an issue for years. - Users should have more control of their main feed. “Mute” users. Mark “See less often” or “Not interested” in Goodreads suggestions because I have read a similar book. Be able to mute certain types of notifications, likes a user’s reading progress in a book, when they have added a new friend, etc. - Users should have more control of the notifications they send out, and much more control from mobile. If a user doesn’t want to send notifications to their friend’s feeds every time they add a friend, make a bookshelf, or mark a book as “want to read”, they should be able to silence those updates from going public. Some users may not want to spam their friend’s feeds just because they found many books they might read in the future. For notifications that do go public, users should be able to manage them from mobile, which they currently cannot. Also, personal book reviews seem to go public on friend’s feeds whether you mark them to do so or not. It’s a great platform, but goodreads (and the Kindle UI) seems a little outdated and like they are not at all a priority for those who oversee them. They could be so much better with a little effort.
Review by roscomcmillan on Goodreads: Book Reviews.