New Overdrive coming and it is awful

[Bookworm_Girl]

The lack of core features at launch is a big disappointment. The book images are way too big which makes it difficult for browsing. The book details page reminds me of Oyster. I do like the modern style. The old website was looking outdated. I also like that the availability status is a line on the image versus the old one that covered the image. The lack of advanced search which I use all the time is a big deal. You basically have to know exactly what you are looking for by title or author.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by MikeB1972

Always bugged me that, how can a update to an existing product be both "New" and "Improved", I mean one or the other is fine, but both??

Applying for my Early-onset curmudgeondry badge

Right, campaign needed to change "New and Improved" to one of the following (Could be expensive so please send money).
New (Bugs) and Improved (Features you don't want)
FUBAR
The old one didn't work at all
Now with added data grab Social Media functions
We had to add more stuff you don't want to continue selling it
Your mileage may vary
May contain nuts

Our centralized IT department was known to continually "improve" our in-house apps until they completely broke. Kept their funding nice and high.

I wonder if some of those moved to Overdrive.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Our centralized IT department was known to continually "improve" our in-house apps until they completely broke. Kept their funding nice and high.

I wonder if some of those moved to Overdrive.

Maybe. My money's on OverDrive's having been mucked up, at least in part, by at least some former NOOK Division developers and/or the shot-callers who supervised them.

On another note, I noticed today, after having borrowed a book via the OverDrive website (rather than directly from NYPL's OverDrive page), that my lending period preferences at NYPL had been reduced "spontaneously", without my approval or intervention, from 21 days to 14 for books and audiobooks, and from 7 days to 5 days for videos. Though I rarely keep those items for the full duration and typically return them early, I want to retain the option to keep them that long, and so I corrected the preferences. I'm now off to check the settings for my other OverDrive accounts.

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Our centralized IT department was known to continually "improve" our in-house apps until they completely broke. Kept their funding nice and high.

I wonder if some of those moved to Overdrive.

Agile software development at it's finest

For the non-techies Agile development was meant to be an open ended adaptive programming style resulting in a faster more flexible workflow without the red tape to end up with the program you want at the end (instead of the one you designed at the beginning).
Accountants got involved and it got turned into "Ship it in 2 days, don't bother testing it"

[Terisa de morgan]

Mike, you can't imagine how I agree with your Agile definition

[silverraven]

I went to my library site today and there is a banner for New Overdrive Coming Soon! Preview Now. I checked a couple different libraries and it looks like all of them have the banner. Guess it was time to change it again for the sake of changing it.......
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Please move this if it is in the wrong area.

[JSWolf]

The new site is awful.

[Cosimo]

Not a lot of difference between old and new for me, though the new site does look more similar to Kobo's site now.

[Fbone]

I don't remember this on the old site.

LEVELS
ATOS: 4.3
Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty: 3

[JSWolf]

I've seen reading levels as a search on some libraries on the old site.

[Catlady]

It looks like Hoopla. I don't like it.

I especially don't like that instead of the category "Mystery & Suspense," the new version has three categories: "Mystery," "Suspense," and "Thriller," which overlap, meaning I would have to check all three to figure out where the powers-that-be decided to classify a book.

[4691mls]

Originally Posted by Catlady

It looks like Hoopla. I don't like it.

I especially don't like that instead of the category "Mystery & Suspense," the new version has three categories: "Mystery," "Suspense," and "Thriller," which overlap, meaning I would have to check all three to figure out where the powers-that-be decided to classify a book.

I agree. I did the survey/feedback and one of my comments was that I wish it were possible to do an advanced search of more than one category at a time, for example to be able to search Mystery, Suspense and Thriller at the same time instead of three separate searches.

I also don't like that the wishlist now displays only two book icons across (it was four on the old site) so it requires more scrolling, and there is no longer a "list view" option in the wishlist as there was in the old site.


One thing I just noticed on the new site - if I look at all the works of a particular author, it also shows additional books by the same author which are not currently owned by my library but are available for recommendation

[PurpleStar]

I clicked on the preview now thing. Big mistake, it was hideous!

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by 4691mls

I also don't like that the wishlist now displays only two book icons across (it was four on the old site) so it requires more scrolling, and there is no longer a "list view" option in the wishlist as there was in the old site.

Agree! The wishlist should be four across. It's too big with two.

Also, when you look at the site in general on a phone, all of the icons look huge. Too much scrolling required.

[copyrite]

Brooklyn offered me a preview this morning. Didn't click on it... figured I'd wait until they forced me to use it.