Decreased frequency of new recommendations?

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Decreased frequency of new recommendations?

1AldusManutius
Apr 13, 12:39 am

Has something changed that we are not getting new LT Recommendations as frequently? Until recently, they'd come every week or two, but that seems to have slowed recently. I'm still adding books of my own at about the same rate, so I don't think it's a change on my part?

2paradoxosalpha
Apr 13, 7:58 am

Anecdotally, I haven't seen a change.

3SandraArdnas
Apr 13, 8:12 am

I got a new large batch just yesterday. I believe the likelihood of new recs ramps up significantly by adding new books.

4MarthaJeanne
Apr 13, 8:12 am

Maybe the books you are currently entering would create the same recommendations you have already seen.

5waltzmn
Apr 13, 8:24 am

>2 paradoxosalpha:

Ditto, also anecdotally. And my recommendations are about as good as they always are (i.e. not very).

6norabelle414
Apr 13, 9:12 am

Some users had issues with their recommendations in February/March: https://www.librarything.com/topic/379258
Which for me resulted in no new recommendations after 8 February but then I got a large number of recommendations on April 5

7keristars
Apr 13, 9:36 am

>6 norabelle414: Yes, I think this is part of it - I had the same issue. It's a resource heavy process and is taking a while to regenerate everyone's recommendations, which may be delaying any new cycles (speculation!)

8AldusManutius
Jun 15, 2:25 am

Still no new ones since mid-March, sigh.