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!

Hey guys. Thanks for your time in considering this. I tried to see if this had been requested already and while there was something similar I couldn’t see exactly this.

Just wondering if we could populate our plans from our TBR? Like along with “add book” could that have the option of bringing up our TBR so we can add directly from there?

Thanks :)

Hi! I searched and didn't see this, but I apologize if this has already been requested. I definitely agree with a minimum number of books to start a list, but I was wondering if it would be feasible at some point to be able to add more than the initial 5 books to a list before publishing it/making it live and viewable by others.

Typically when I make a list, I have more than 5 books in mind, and (this may be a me problem) while I love getting suggestions of books to add, to my anxious brain, it sometimes feels like a race against the clock to add the books I had in mind to the live list before folks comment suggesting the same ones.

i’m not sure if this has been brought up before, i searched but didn’t see anything! i’m sorry if i’m repeating anything!

i was wondering if it could be possible to sort notifications by replies, likes, and follows - and mentions, once those are implemented? sort of like how twitter and similar platforms have done it, all under the same tab but with the option to sort.. sometimes i miss replies when a post gets a lot of likes! i completely understand if that’s not doable!

It would be amazing to be able to mark individual notifications as read or unread, rather than all at once! When getting lots of new notifications e.g. due to a level-up, I would love to be able to clear all those without losing the ones that I want to come back to, e.g. comments in book forums. Or sometimes, I open a notification, realise this will require some brain power to reply to adequately but am afraid of "losing" it among other notifications. This could be done, e.g., by double tapping or holding down on app, having a blue dot as a toggle, or a three-dot menu on each notifications, whichever is easiest in the backend. I hope this is clear and thanks in advance for considering it! :)

Again, 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.

I’d love the ability to sort comment notifications from oldest to newest.

When I come back after being away for a while, I often have a large backlog of notifications. Having the option to view comment notifications chronologically would make it much easier to work through conversations in the order they happened instead of trying to piece discussions together from the newest notifications backward.

Right now, I usually wait until I have enough time to scroll all the way back to the oldest comment notification and work my way forward. The problem is that as new notifications come in, they shift everything around, making it easy to lose my place or accidentally skip over comments.

I think this would make catching up on conversations much more manageable for users who are active in the community. Thanks for considering the suggestion!

Would it be possible to add a filter in our shelves for books we do not own (to complement the Owned toggle that already exists)? Seeing which books I own is helpful in terms of prioritizing a physical TBR, but I would love to be able to filter for Not Owned books to get ahead of which books I should put holds on at the library.

Hi there! Would it be possible to implement a grid view when looking at the shelves in our library? Even if it’s something like being able to toggle from list view to grid view, I think it would be awesome!

There are so many beautiful covers out there and I would love if we could organize our shelves to show us a tidy little grid that focuses on cover art. :)

Thank you for your time! ♡

Would it be possible to filter "Interested" by review/rating?

I have so many in my library I don't know where to start. Filtering by rating or length of book would really help

Similar to the feature request to be able to search our own shelves, I would also like to be able to search other people's shelves as well. For some very specific context, whenever I see a post asking for recommendations, I like to go to that users profile and do a quick skim through their Finished shelf with an eye out for any books that I also have marked as Finished; if I see that they haven't read the book I want to suggest, then I can feel confident recommending the book knowing that it's a fresh suggestion. However, if they have read hundreds and hundreds of books then it's tedious and I'll just give up and throw my recommendation into the world regardless.

I'm not sure if this feature would fall under the existing request to search our own shelves, so please reject as duplicate if it's already going to be included!

I wish we could be able to search within our library sections such as TBR. I have over 1000 books on my TBR for example so it's hard to remember which I have added and which I have yet to the list.

On desktop, select multiple books from a status or custom shelf in your library to batch-edit

would it be possible to implement a share option for reviews on web from the [...] drop down? share is currently an option on posts and comments on web and on posts, comments and reviews in the app. it would appear at the present time the only way to get a review link is to open it in it's own page and grab the link from the address bar. i would appreciate a fewer clicks option of being able to grab a share link from the [...]!

Love the app guys. Currently I'm use custom shelves to track my romance book tropes & micro-tropes. Over time, the list has grown into 150+ private custom shelf which are trope-based shelves, and managing them has started to feel difficult as the list gets longer.

At the moment I'm facing a bit of difficulty:

1. The shelf list is very long and requires a lot of scrolling.
2. There’s no scrollbar limited to the list items/shelf section/custom shelf section within the library.
3. There’s no way to search within custom shelves or lists items within the library
4. There are no sorting or filtering options within custom shelves or lists within the library

I wanted to suggest a few improvements that could make this much easier:

1. A scrollable shelf panel instead of full-page scrolling, meaning a scrollbar for the custom shelf panel within the library, so we don't have to scroll so much.
2. A search bar to quickly find custom shelves or list items within the library.
3. Filtering options for private shelves/custom shelves or list items within the library
4. Sorting options/Filtering options for private shelves/custom shelves or list items within the library, such as name (A–Z / Z–A), date added, or book count, ascending, descending.

Would you guys please consider expanding the existing custom shelf system to support searching, filtering, and sorting? This approach would greatly improve trope tracking/custom shelf tracking for readers who use shelves heavily.

Thanks so much for all the work you put into Pagebound and for being open to user feedback!