https://www.are.na/hwan/lit-salon Brand/Site/Vibe design inspo. It's public so you can add anything you want.

Now links are populated with Open Graph data (the little card you see here) https://www.lit.salon/

I just did a huge DB migration to make the explore page and quotes page faster. Now my explore page actually loads in less than 2 seconds. There are even more optimizations to be made, but I will do those as I go. Please let me know if you notice any issues! ❤️

From now on, only reviews with at least 15 words are shown in the global page.

No more beta badges will be given after today midnight. Thank you everyone for joining!!! We're at 1039 users precisely. Hopefully one day we look back on these days of the site with nostalgia and the site is 100x bigger and looks & feels 500x better.

Explore page: how could i make this better? Infinite scroll is an obvious one, but I find myself not really interacting with it as much. Do you? Why or Why not?

Now you can add letterboxd to your profile ❤️

Hi folks, we are a couple users away from 1000 users 🎉. It's about time I start building a iOS/android native client. This will take a while, since I have to rebuild the entire UI. Web will never be neglected. Tell your friends with good taste about the site <3

You can now add substack, IG, and twitter links to your shelf ❤️

Now below any shelf, it displays similar shelves automatically. Hopefully this allows even further user discovery <3 Also now uses a minhash algo rather than jaccard to make it slightly faster ☝️🤓

You can now search lists by title <3. Coming up for salon, quotes, and reviews. Gonna be a little more difficult for quotes, since I have to do some surgery on the DB. You can also see users' salon threads in shelves <3

Feature requests thread. I think I knocked down a lot of the big ones. These are the current ones on my board, but as you can see it's mostly optimizations. Any big ideas?

Explore page (beta) is out! It shows similar shelves (it's a bit slow right now, but I will optimize algo to make it faster) and following + trending content. It's a little rough in the edges, but it will improve over time. ❤️

Now you can add photos to salon threads. You could IRL bookshelf post or etc. Max 1.5MB. ❤️

The site is now lit.salon. Any references or visits to literary.salon will be redirected to lit.salon <3

THE LONG AWAITED FEATURE: You can now DM ppl and make group chats!!!! Yes, it's real-time. EDIT: now you also see indicators if you have unread or new chats

Hi, brainstorming some site taglines for Google SEO. Currently it's "Goodreads with a point of view". I think this is a bit too vague. I do like having the word Goodreads in there to communicate the category instantly. Any good ideas?

Improved pagination on all pages (except shelf + review, coming next). Site should be a lot faster now. Doing shelf + review pagination soon later today <3 EDIT: ^ is done now

You can now add songs to lists too to further dictate the vibes <3 EDIT: I realized that there's an issue where a published review isn't directly reflected in /reviews. Working on a fix. <- this is fixed now.

HUGE feature! Now supporting author pages. A little rough around the edges but will iterate upon. Hopefully can support custom author images and descriptions soon too. <3 Btw now you can have linebreaks in threads too. Gonna allow adding pictures soon too.

Quotes page sorting (hot/recent/popular) was broken, showing trending for all. Now fixed <3

Now supporting ranked lists. Simply check the ranked box in the list edit mode <3

The big one: now you can re-order books in lists and your bookshelf ❤️

Now you can pick from existing, user-uploaded book cover photos rather than uploading your own. Voting system for picking the default one coming soon!

Huge feature; now you can add custom book covers to books. Your custom covers will be visible to everyone else too. <3

Now the site defaults to a "hot" view using the reddit hot algo. You can also now see the top 40 books referenced in the site throughout shelves, reviews, and lists in the salon removing the editor's pick for now.

Now focusing on: reordering books in list. Anything else you'd like prioritized? (except DM feature, I am already working on it). A neat feature would be able to "bump" a review or a list (X times a month, etc), so it goes to the most recent.

Added pagination ❤️ site is probably going to be a lot faster now with growing content

Quotes feature is launched! You go to a book page, then you can submit a quote. Users can like and comment on it. Cheers <3

Hi, the quotes features is almost done, but realistically I don't think I can push this out today. Way too burnt out. Apologies. Will likely launch this tomorrow <3

Going to start allowing users to edit book metadata (covers, description, etc). What about a book would you like to be able to edit?

Huge update: Now you can reply to comments in nested fashion!

Now you can have 4 "favorite books" like letterboxd <3. You can also dislike books now.

Now threads are clickable + have links. Thread notifications will also take you to the actual thread <3

You can now create “private” lists that can only be accessed by URL. Like youtube unlisted vids ❤️. You can also edit salon threads now.

The site now fetches books from Open Library on the client, rather than the server. This should be a massive performance boost.

You can now add a spotify song to your shelf ❤️

Check out the new landing page! No more shoddy screenshots, acts as a pseudo-explore page now.

A humble plea: if you love the app, please do tell your friends or post about it (if you don’t find it cringe). Thank you so much ❤️

Site is finally fast. Fixed Next JS data caching. Please let me know if you notice stale data issues. ❤️

Writers thread: how could we introduce original writing features into the site? Any good ideas? Any pitfalls?

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