Recently shelved

I think the recently shelved section in the home page often looks like the "last registered user's shelve" ... perhaps it's just an impression or perhaps a bit of random per user may help ...
anyway, the homepage is great :)

That's a good observation khigia, I was quite irritated about it as well.

It is now sorted randomly. Thanks dude.

Tested the random order today, doesn't feel right as well though, coz you don't know if you have seen the scroll on the right on each page refresh, coz the sequence changes.

I can appreciate it is a challenge to get "just right". On the one hand, I love the home page - a great way to let serendipity lead you to new books, or find new friends. On the other, when someone decides today is the day to upload their whole library it can be a bore (unless you like what they read). That's a problem, because uploading your whole library should be encouraged!

Maybe the answer is two-fold:
- when someone loads many books at once, perhaps only show the first 5 or so and include a place holder ".. and X more books from userY." which you can click through to see the user's library
- add a filtered version of the "recently/faved/added" widget to the friends page, where you only see those added and faved by your friends

That sounds reasonable prata, a bit to avoid flooding of books by the same user.

The friends part, pardon me, I owe you that, you mentioned that before. :)