[first paragraph is mostly me explaining what I think this platform does well, so if you only want to see my idea on clubs/communities you can skip it] I want to start of by saying that I love this website, so thank you for making it. As someone who didn't use Goodreads or Storygraph at all (for various reasons) and instead relied mostly on excel to keep track my reading habits and TBRs, this website is so nice as an alternative. I like how it doesn't feel like a social media platform (so no time marks that show when a post was made on say a quest page) which often feel like places where posts get "old" quickly (take twitter or reddit for example where people would rarely comment or respond to posts older than a few days). Similarly I like the somewhat gamified approach you took, and I feel like this could be a great way to get/keep younger people interested in reading (something I personally quite care about as I have done some things relating to illiteracy in the place where I live, so I know how important it is to make sure reading is fun for younger people). I can easily imagine for example posting something about a lesser-read book on here and that post still being interacted with in a few months because someone else read it and saw my post (but instead of being scared away from responding because on the post because it says "3 months ago", they will still respond and I have the opportunity to discuss again). In general that community feeling this website gives me is great, and it is also what prompted me to think more about it and how to facilitate that even more/better. And what better way to this than with digital book clubs. Which is how I came to my idea for clubs/communities (or maybe they should be called guilds instead, keeping in theme with the "quest" terminology). One of the things that I really like are the seasonal readalongs and quests. But one of issues I could foresee (esp. as the platform grows), is that it may be a bit too general/generic. For example, currently not many of the readalong books stand out to me (I'll probably still read a couple as I'm always open to try new things) and I can imagine this might be especially noticeable for people who a narrower range of books they enjoy. So I can imagine a hardcore sci-fi fan might not often participate in the readalongs as there aren't many books they'd find interesting, but they would still really enjoy being part of such readalongs. Well, what if there was say a "Sci-fi Guild" which could create their own readalongs for people who join that club/community/guild. Now the hardcore sci-fi fan can participate too, but people not part of the guild won't see any of the guild's readalongs or posts about books in the readalongs (so their pages won't be filled with 18 different readalongs happening because they are restricted to guild pages). Similarly, you could also allow guilds to create their own quests. So now that hardcore sci-fi fan can take part in quests (both main and side), such as for example a specific quest such as "politics and intrigue in outer space" which would include several stories which focus on politics in sci-fi settings. Again, now the hardcore sci-fi fan can take part in these community events, but instead of every single user getting to see these types of quests, they are only visible to people who have joined the guild (and would therefore also be interested in these types of quests). But clubs wouldn't necessarily be restricted to just genre clubs, maybe a large author such as Brandon Sanderson would have his own club with dedicated quests and readalongs. So taking the Sci-fi Guild as an example. Their page would be a place for sci-fi fans to talk about the sci-fi books they are reading with other sci-fi fans. There would be sci-fi readalongs, which wouldn't necessarily have to be seasonal. Instead maybe they have a "women writing sci-fi month" where the 5 readalong books are sci-fi books written by women or a "spooky Halloween sci-fi" where the readalong books are sci-fi horror books etc. And the quests would similarly be targeted at sci-fi fans. In addition quest and readalong rewards/achievements would be unique to the guild (so if I take part in a sci-fi readalong the badge I get only shows up in that club). The guild might hold a special event when there is an award show on for sci-fi stories with a quest too read all the nominees or a special quest when a long awaited sci-fi novel in a series is released to reread the previous stories of the series. Now there are some practical issues that adding a feature like this would cause and some specific things that have to be decided on (which is also why I would say this feature shouldn't necessarily be a priority, more so something cool that could keep people invested and might be especially useful as the platform grows). An important thing to consider for example is, who gets to make clubs/communities/guilds? Will they be created and ran by a "Pagebound team" or will users themselves create and run them? And if users create them, will it just be the creator who gets to create readalongs and quests and pin posts or can they choose "moderators" who also have these permissions (personally I think only person having this power could be bad because what happens if this person stops engaging with the platform? Does the guild just die even if it spawned a large and engaged community?). Also will moderators or the creator be able to remove posts that they feel don't fit the club (say a person posting something about a historical fiction book completely unrelated to sci-fi in the sci-fi guild). There will also be some considerations I missed here, so feel free to add on. Personally these are some things I personally think would be nice in these clubs/communities/guilds (though I should add that if a feature like this is considered I wouldn't expect all of these to make it, especially not immediately when it releases): - custom readalongs and quests - lists exclusive to a club (so if I make a list of niche sci-fi books I could post it in the sci-fi guild instead of just on my page so that other sci-fi fans can easily see I made it without having to follow me) - poll functionality (so, for example, the sci-fi guild can host their own little mini-awards at the end of a year where community members can nominate their favourites and then vote on them) - posting book updates only in a club, instead of also to your own page (so when I read a sci-fi book and post an update, I can choose to do it in the sci-fi guild because I know my friends aren't all that into sci-fi and wouldn't care for it, but other sci-fi fans might). Personally I think a feature like this would be great to foster that community feel I believe the platform is going for and give it something unique that could draw more people in as well. It might also be interesting for authors potentially interested in joining the platform as they could host their own clubs and use it for readalongs with what they are reading or books they have written. They could also use it for exclusive little pieces of information about new releases with a community they know is interested. I'm interested in hearing what the thoughts of other people are though and about what they would like to see for such a feature!