Site Feature Updates

I’ve created a new Top 10 Watchlisted books widget because I thought hey this would be fun. Everyone can see it and maybe that’ll interest you in the watchlist feature if you haven’t already taken the plunge. None of these are surprising. I WANT THEM ALL.

If you ARE a Patreon of mine, when logged in, you’ll see the new “FAB” (floating action button) which is a nice gear icon that will float along the page with you so you can see some of the extra page options. I may add more to this eventually but right now it’s just watchlist related functions. I thought it looked nicer.

I’ve also done some somewhat slight but welcome style updates around the site. Colors, font sizes, button shapes, all that kind of stuff. Just making things look nicer. The details popup on books is a totally custom popup now and I can mess with it as much as I want. I’m also playing around with adding more types of info in there before too long.

The filters at the top of the table now are pretty checkbox filters instead of select boxes. I really like these a lot more especially on desktop. They’re scrollable too just like before but they just look nicer.

I fixed a few bugs here and there, mostly with the watchlist. If you see anything that seems broken, as always, drop me a line on the contact page.

Finally, this is mostly another “I have cool things now too” type of addon that doesn’t affect you all directly, but I build myself even more tools for keeping book dates up to date AND I built out some semi automation for grabbing solicits. So that should mean less time sitting here slapping them together which means you get them sooner. Win-win on that (I semi-automated Image, Dark Horse, and IDW right now). The rest is not really worth mentioning because it’s mostly just prettying stuff up our admin area and making my code better. I just like making these updates so people know I am in fact still doing stuff. Next up for this sort of stuff is trying to automate actually grabbing new books and adding them. It’ll be from Penguin publishers to start but will allow us to far more rapidly add new books which, again, is always a win for the end user here as you get info faster!