I shouldn't have to constantly deal with this issue though. I love to a meet new members who actually read and blog but most of these accts are inactive and stay that way. I would prefer an option to accept or deny followers or at the very least receive an email each time one is added. I don't think that is too much to ask considering all of the socks that pop up to copy and paste our words on their blogs. Between that and the spam accounts I'm losing some of my love for the site.

I agree that I'd like to see this practice of automatically making you follow people when you join up done away with. First of all, everyone they made me follow were people who had nothing in common with me and it was a pain to have to manually unfollow everyone. It's worse though when you know that most of the people who are following you are only doing so because they were forced to do so and that they probably have nothing in common with you and may very well never be active.

This is not a good way to make new friends and meet people with common book interests. In fact I've heard many people who have joined from other sites complain about this and for some it even scares them off completely. If the site wants to recommend people for you to follow when you first join, then fine, but it should not just do it automatically whether you want it or not.

What we need is a much more sophisticated explore feature. Just searching under a specific genre is next to useless when trying to find people with similar book tastes especially when it can take forever to go through someone's shelves. I simply don't have the energy to go through pages and pages of books on other people's blogs. Sometimes this can be easier if someone has well organized shelves and I can see what books they have in a given category, but even that can take forever if they have really large shelves. Now I pretty much don't bother to look through someone's books unless they've followed me first, and then most of the time I wonder why they even bothered to follow me at all because I'll usually see few if any books we've got in common.

We need to have an automated book comparison tool so you can easily find people who have a lot of books in common with you and on top of that find people who rated the books similar to how you rated them.

Thank you for all the suggestions. You can also use Tag Search box on Dash to find new blogs - type book title that you're fond of and you'll see writings from BL community about that book - that's how you can find other readers with similar reading taste. Maybe that will be helpful too.
We do plan changes in discovering books and other bloggers as well as more settings when it comes to your webpages.

Hi, sorry if this has already been asked, but I can't seem to search the threads. Is there any way to retrieve posts with a given tag, but that are only from my blog. My family/friends who aren't necessarily on BL have been asking re. navigating posts within my individual blog. Obviously, they're also on my shelves, but there isn't an easy way to navigate from a book page, to a given user's review of that book. Thanks!

Reply to post #361 (show post):
Hi, your blog guest can see your posts on your blog page: http://seriouslyreadabook.booklikes.com/. To find a given post or a review, write book title in the search spot on the left, under your avatar.

Your blog guests can also go to your Shelf Page and select "Reviewed shelf" http://seriouslyreadabook.booklikes.com/shelf/reviewed, then once they click the book cover, they will see button "Review" in the book window and when they click it they will be moved to your review on your blog.

Hope this is helpful. You can also mail us with any Qs at contact@booklikes.com

Reply to post #363 (show post):
Thank you for your remarks. New blog options will be implemented as well as new blog designs with new facilities.

When it comes to shelf page: Read, Planning, Currently, Favorite, Wishlist, Private and Reviewed are default shelves. You can add as many new shelves as you wish to.

When it comes to reviews on your blog, you might want to change link in "Reviews" page added by you for this one http://booklikes.com/tag/droonfang%20reviews. You can change the link in Settings/Pages. Then your texts with your tags will be visible to your blog guests and not only to BookLikes members.

Your personal webpage has got three views visible for your guests:
- Blog (with your reviews and texts and search spot),
- Shelf (with particular shelves, including 'Reviewed' where are shelved books that you've reviewed - you can easily move to the review, just click the cover)
- Timeline with your book-likes activity.
And all other pages added by you in Settings/Pages.

Sorry to hear about the navigation problems. We want to make BL comfy and easy going place. If there's something we can do better, let us know.

Reply to post #363 (show post):
Good points @droonfang. Yeah, the tags per blog thing (and the ability to navigate from looking at a book page to a given user's review of that book) are not particularly user-friendly and are exceedingly click heavy. There are lots of things I like about this site (I'm a relatively new user coming over from Goodreads), but those are definitely features on my wishlist!

From a quick look at the API as is, it looks like post_tag or PostTags aren't parameters that can be used with uid. The idea being that you'd want to GET posts where uid=xxxx&&post_tag=xxxx

Reply to post #366 (show post):
@droonfang: Sorry for any troubles. We'll soon present some changes when it comes to design and navigation. Hope they will be clear and will suit your needs.

When it comes to additional Pages added in Settings/Pages.
I see that you've removed the "Reviews" page but you can easily add it again with link that will be visible for all your blog visitors.

Let us explain step by step:
1. Go to your blog post in public blog, e.g.: http://droonfang.booklikes.com/post/862504/post

2. Click Tag "DROONFANG REVIEWS". You'll be moved to a site with reviews with this tag.

3. Copy the link which looks like this (it's generated, visible in your browser once you click Tag on Blog Page): http://booklikes.com/tag/droonfang%20reviews

4. Go to Settings/Pages: http://booklikes.com/settings/page

5. Add new Page-Redirect to URL with URL from point 3, that is: http://booklikes.com/tag/droonfang%20reviews

6. Save.

7. Your new page with texts with your tag will be visible for all blog visitors, both members and non-members of BL.

Sorry for confusion. We're already working to make it more clear and unified.

Reply to post #368 (show post):
@droonfang: Thank you for suggestions. When it comes to Add Pages for your links, just use a link from your public blog page as we described above and everything should be OK.

As we mentioned we're in the middle of works on new book data base and other improvements (including navigation), once changes will be online it will be more comfy to find books and book reviews for members and non-members. We hope to reveal changes soon.

Just bumping my request for a easier way to see tags I've used in the past. Thanks for the constant improvements!

Reply to post #371 (show post):
@The butler did it!: Thank you. We remember about all tags request. Sorry for delay. We promise we'll get there.

Reply to post #373 (show post):
We'll do that. Now you can remove your tags from specific posts in blog view: http://booklikes.com/blog by editing your blog posts and deleting tags used in this post, column on the right.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but I'd like to be able to mass edit tags in the same way that you can with shelves. Like if you change the name of a shelf than all the books on that shelf will be on the shelf with the new name. I'd like to be able to change the name of a tag and have that change apply to all posts with the tag I'm changing.

Reply to post #377 (show post):
@:droonfang

Hi, please use the tag link from your blog page, go to your public blog post: http://droonfang.booklikes.com/post/862504/post and click tag at the bottom: DROONFANG REVIEWS

The link will be external and will look like this: http://booklikes.com/tag/droonfang%20reviews

Please use this link for your New Redirect Page. Then everything should be OK.

Reply to post #380 (show post):
@droonfang: Good to hear that your pages work fine now. And yes, the RSS is at the bottom of each booklikes blog.