I really enjoy the search by emoji function on the website, and I’d love to be able to do the same on the app.

This is a request stemming from the accessibility club discussion post. The main request is for the webpage to include a dark mode/high-contrast mode option for accessibility. But if that takes a lot of time, could users get better compatibility with dark mode/high-contrast browser add-ons until an official dark mode/high-contrast mode is created?

Users shared that browser dark mode/night mode add-ons did not work well with Pagebound's website. Certain images do not change into a dark mode alternative. For example, the pastel-gradient wavy design that fills the top-right half of the Feed webpage and the fuzzy colour image behind the "Discover", "Books" button, "People" button, "Quests" button, and "Lists" Button on the Discover webpage. I've attached a screenshot below of the main feed webpage in the default dark mode settings to show the compatibility issues. This is on Google Chrome with the Dark Reader extension.

Many users with accessibility needs use the webpage on their phone's browser at the moment, so improving the website's compatibility with add-ons will help users even if they don't use dark mode. Some of the add-ons used include dark mode, GIF stoppers/pausers, and bionic readers. I would also like to add that dark mode doesn't necessarily mean a black background with white text, but rather focuses on contrast and, overall, a muted colour palette. Obviously, a dark mode will not help all disability needs, but the choice will be greatly appreciated.

🔗Example of a Website with a Migraine Mode The toggle button is on the top banner next to the search area on the website and can be accessed by clicking the top right corner and scrolling to the bottom on a phone browser.

Thank you!

First, I want to acknowledge that I’m not sure how feasible this request is from a development standpoint. I also tried looking through the existing feature requests, but if this has already been suggested, I apologize for the duplicate.

As someone who is becoming more active on Pagebound, my notifications can quickly grow into the hundreds. While I love seeing the engagement on my posts and comments, I don’t necessarily need to open every individual like or upvote notification just to clear it.

I currently scroll through and ignore them to focus on the comments, then “mark all as read” after. It would be incredibly helpful to have a “Mark all likes/upvotes as read” option. That way, I could quickly clear engagement notifications and focus on comment notifications and conversations that need a response.

I think this would be a great quality-of-life feature for active members who receive a high volume of notifications. Thanks for considering it!

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this. I looked through some of the requests but didn't find anything. If possible, I thought it would be cool to see our top 2-3 authors for the month/year in Stats.

I enjoy seeing data like how many days, pages read, average rating, etc., and thought it might be nice to quickly see if there are any authors I read a lot of. I don't usually pay attention to that while reading, but after a conversation with my friends, knowing theirs, I got curious about my own top authors.

I think it would be helpful for any readers wanting to keep track of that info, just to know or share with others.

I saw similar requests but not this specifically so please forgive if it is a duplicate.

Could the custom shelf order be made fully customizable?

I use several tracking apps and I have been slowly trying to move fully over to pagebound so I am creating custom shelves to keep up with things like my wishlist, format owned, books left in a series I have started, etc. I would love the option to organize my shelves to where I can choose in what order the shelves appear or to be able to create a shelf within a shelf sort of like a grouping. For example: If I created a Romance shelf but wanted to further organize, I could go into that shelf and create a romantic comedy, romantic suspense, etc section within the shelf so it is all grouped together.

I searched both “block” and “unblock” to try to look for this request and couldn’t find anything.

I’m wondering if there is a way to view a list of accounts we have blocked. Instagram had this feature within our account settings back when I used it.

I like to reevaluate blocked accounts every now and then, or do temporary blocks and then unblock the person when I feel ready to see their posts again.

I just saw “comment unavailable” for this first time in a while and I totally forgot who it was I blocked 🤷🏼‍♀️

When I’m looking at lists and click on one, I hate that when I go back I have to re-search what I was looking for. Like I wish I could just go back to the search results instead of home

I used the search phrase Reading progress and didn't see a similar request.

Currently when I update the reading progress of a book the second time, the tracking metric defaults to either the number of pages read or the time listened.

I want to select the correct format for my medium and enter the figure for the number of pages in the book or the duration of the book; but I track my progress using percentage.

Currently, every time I update my reading progress I have to reselect the metric type to percentage.

It would be great if PB remembered and automatically selected the last used metric.

I would like to be able to set a preference for inputting progress on a book. Currently, it seems to default to pages so I need to change this to percent every time I enter progress. Maybe it could default to what was selected during the previous input for the same title? Small issue overall, but it would same some time.

Currently, the mobile app is not available in all regions (in this case, Nepal in particular). Are there any plans to make the mobile app more generally available?

I have looked but if there I can delete, I would love for the genres of the book to be listed. 🙏🏽

Hi, I’ve noticed that it’s really easy to accidentally mark a book as finished when you don’t mean to.

I think it would be really great to have a window with “cancel” and “save” options that pops up when we click on “I’m finished” so that we can make sure we’re not accidentally marking books as finished before we’re ready.

Thanks for considering. 😊

I noticed just now while adding a book that Nature is missing from the non-fiction main genres and Picture Book is missing from the non-fiction sub-types. Nature has been a top-level non-fiction category separate from Science & Technology since the 1990s so it seems weird and inaccurate to stuff all those books under science & tech, and there are lots of picture books used as non-fiction learning tools.