My recommendations have disappeared

The recommendations for 'Complete List' and 'Newest' are gone. The classic system seems fine.
When I check 'Complete List', it tells me to check my settings, but I did, and my whole library is included to generate recommendations.
'Newest' tells me there are no recommendations, even though I received the weekly update with 52 recommendations according to the heading.
I haven't made any changes to my account. I cleared my browser cache (Chrome) and tried to view the page with another browser (Firefox) to no avail.
Help would be much appreciated.

Yep, me too.
EDIT: Now, four new messages from user timspalding saying my new recommendations are ready. This appears to be the same message I received in 2022 when this new recommendation system was first implemented.
"Newest" recommendations remain blank.

>1 ccs3: Me too. Macbook Pro, M2, Tahoe 26.3, Firefox 148.0, if it matters.

Working on it,.

Another member reported this at https://www.librarything.com/topic/379312

And one more: https://www.librarything.com/topic/379326

Sorry for double-posting about this, and thanks for working to resolve it.

This is happening to me, as well. (Google Chrome.)

>1 ccs3: Happened to me, too. Exactly the same, starting with last sateurday.

I am also seeing this behavior when I click on Recommendations. The message is that I have none and that I should check my settings. I clicked on a notification that said I had 1000+ recommendations to see this message.

I just got notice that my recommendations are ready! Then when I click on the link it takes me to a notice that they are being generated in the "new recommendations system" and will be ready soon. Needless to say I have been in the "new" recommendations system for a long time. @timspalding

To be clear it seems all my recommendations have disappeared.

>11 waitingtoderail: That's happened for me as well. What needs to be changed in settings?

>12 jillmwo: See >4 timspalding:

Nothing you need to do - Tim was taking a look at it and we are waiting for an update.

I've had four emails in the last hour telling me,

Your new recommendations are ready!

Go to https://www.librarything.com/recommendations to see them.

Best,
Tim

Yeah. I fixed the underlying problem—a security thing we put in place caused the system to start storing the recommendations "blogs" wrong. It's unclear to me how long it will take to get right, but I have three times the regular resources chewing down the recommendations queue. I'm hoping you don't get anymore bad notifications, but I haven't quite treed why that happened.

>14 Brazen:

Are they there?

Well, I have the Classic recommendations.

Is that it?

>16 timspalding:

Looks like not. Blech. Working on it.

I do see recent recommendations on the overview page, if that helps with diagnosis.

Both automatic and member recommendations are shown in Overview page.

Mine are back now. Thanks!

>21 foggidawn:

Yes, I did yours manually, to troubleshoot this. Not sure about others' yet.

>22 timspalding: mine too, thanks Tim.

>22 timspalding: Mine aren't back yet.

>22 timspalding: Still not working for me

Mine are back. Thank you.

Still not working for me.

My list of recommendations have disappeared too...

Working for me now--thanks very much. It sounds like others should be coming back online as the systems churn away.

still not working

>22 timspalding: They’re back, thank you, Tim.

Mine are back too. Thanks Tim!

My recommendations have not been updated since I looked at them yesterday (I don't check them very often, just did it because of this thread).

It's chewing through them.

>34 timspalding: Thank you.

I’m having this problem too.

>34 timspalding: Ah, we'll get predigestions rather than suggestions? :-)

Recommendations still not working.

Just as an update in case anyone is tracking this, my recommendations have still not been restored.

>34 timspalding: Mine are back, thank you very much.

Not working for me yet.

(I'm guessing the system will correct it eventually—but like Jill said, I just wanted to give an update in case someone's keeping track.)

I'm still not getting them in case anyone is keeping track I'm assuming it will eventually get to me as you work down the list.

Mine are, unfortunately, also still missing.

As far as I can see, this issue has not been resolved yet in my case. Recommendations are still missing.

I think it's still building, but I'll check in a day or two if it hasn't resolved.

What are some common bugs that occur?

For a brief second several days ago, they went from missing to horrifying, filled with books that might have found their way into a trash can or fire pit had they been given to me. But it was a brief second, and now they're back and looking fine.

I'm getting seriously annoyed with this. The recommendations were a huge improvement on the classic recommendations list. I have to go through the classic recommendations list again, and it's a totally effing hard slog to use this system.

I haven't seen any improvement of the situation so far. Flamin' heck !

Mine still aren't back either

Mine are also still gone. I used them so much I miss them!

Still nothing!

Mine have returned now, within the last couple hours.

>45 timspalding: I am grateful that your work on this continues, but (just as an update) recommendations are still unavailable to me. Not sure if it's useful to know, but I access LT via the Chrome browser (up-to-date) on both a Mac as well as a Chromebook.

Just needed to mention this for the benefit of all the folks out here that have the same problem : using a different browser doesn't make a darn difference, either way. In the past, I have installed Opera, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Brave, and I keep these up to date anyway, although I don't use half of them.

It's easy enough to check : the browser you're using is NOT the problem, as far as I can discern.

And nothing has changed at my end, BTW.

>53 jillmwo: Same here, no recommendations yet!

>55 MsMixte: Same here.

My recommendations aren't back yet, either.

Mine are also still gone. And I did change browsers too from Chrome to Brave but it didn’t help.

mine are still gone. Any update on progress toward resolution?

My recommendations are also still gone..

@timspalding is still aware of the missing Recs! I'm reminding him periodically, just in case. :) Thanks for your patience on this.

Good Morning, Sorry to add but having the same issue too. Especially odd since it briefly worked and then went back to 'still working, classic view instead'.

Thanks guys! It appears my recommendations are now back. *happy dance*

It's chewing through them.

>64 timspalding: "It's chewing through them."

Pardon my ignorance, not being a native speaker of English, but what is it you are actually saying here ? What are you referring to, exactly ?

>65 Luchtpint: He's saying that it takes time to process all the data needed for recommendations. They will gradually reappear.

>62 Maltesegeek: did yours come back? i get the same error message since the beginning of march :-)

>67 Schnee7: Mine are still gone too.

Nothing seems to be moving forward with regards to this issue. The problem persists in my case since the first week of March.

Still no recommendations for me.

>70 Hordubal: Just to make sure I understand the problem:
https://www.librarything.com/recommendations/bnielsen/new shows me the latest recommendations and I can also see Zephs https://www.librarything.com/recommendations/zephcraven
but https://www.librarything.com/recommendations/hordubal/new
is empty.

>71 bnielsen: correct.

>72 Hordubal: Thanks!

Sorry to bother but is there any movement with this issue? I still do not have my recommendations restored and they've been gone since early March...

>74 beaniebear:

https://www.librarything.com/recommendations/beaniebear is empty, but https://www.librarything.com/recommendations/hordubal is populated, so I _think_ that things are moving along, just very slowly.

As far as I can see, today my recommendations are working in the normal manner. In any case, many thanks to the LT team for persevering to solve this issue. as I can imagine this was a hard slog to achieve.

I have this issue, but bizarrely “suspense and thriller” is still populating. This is probably not the genre I’d choose to read until the end of time… hopefully the others reappear!

My recommendations have been gone since the last week of March. :(

Just wanted to see if the process to restore recommendations is still going. Mine still aren't back yet.

And they are back now! Huzzah!

I *think* I have ironed out all possible ways things fall through the cracks, and have ongoing monitoring. Everything in the past should be pushed through within the next 4 days.

>81 timspalding: Hi Tim. still no recommendations showing for me.
https://www.librarything.com/profile/being_blunt

>81 timspalding: My recommendations still aren't back.

>81 timspalding: None showing in my account :(

My recommendations still don't work. The "classic" recommendations do, though.

>85 x_hoxha: Same here.

same here.

>87 Sethgsamuel: A while ago, my recommendations seemed to have returned, but like Sethgsamuel, I am getting the same message on the Recommendations page ! (that is, under the button Complete List > New Books)

I had a whole list of Recommendations by date, the last dated from 2026-04-23. I emptied those dates myself manually after reviewing the separate date lists in order to discard / add books to wishlist.

I have noticed for a while now that no recommendations were generated since 2026-04-23. I think this is pretty curious, given the fact that, on average, I get at least 1 recommendation list (that is one date) per month. (sometimes even 2 or even 3)

the last dates on the list were :

2026-04-23
2026-04-14
2026-03-07
2026-02-28
2026-02-19
2026-01-29
2026-01-22
2026-01-14
2026-01-07
2025-12-27

To me it seems that the problem has not yet been totally resolved. This message clearly states "Try changing your settings", like when this bug started to appear first time around.

My recommendations are also still empty. Is there any reason to think they'll suddenly start working again, or should I accept that they're gone forever?