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I don't mind a goodreads alternative, but regarding the UI from 2005, I am not sure I care. It works and people are used to it. I am not a supporter of "let's try build a new interface using shiny new technology" for the sake of new .
Goodreads does indeed suck in many ways, but I am in favor of a 5 star system! I think oftentimes we need to commit to one rating or another and not waffle around with this "4.12425/5" type reviews :)
Rotten Tomatoes' system has a lot of positives and I see a ton of signal in Rotten Tomatoes scores. It only works with a critical mass of people rating a given piece and I don't think anyone could get that critical mass for books aside from Goodreads.
I had an idea of a rating system where people would have to create a ranked list of the movies/books. Their rating for a given piece would be based on where it is in their list, linearly. Then ratings would be relative to other content. I think this would be much harder to get off the ground than a Rotten Tomatoes system.
You're relying on a whole mix of people, from tweens to teens to old goats, who may, or likely don't, have similar tastes.
A pointless exercise imo. Similar to going to reddit for reviews. It's not what you really want.
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I just assume all reviews are lying unless I know the reviewer or have validated their past reviews. I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance. This certainly doesn't mean you have to HIDE the public reviews by unknown people.... just give an incentive to give input at what sort of reviews you want.
> I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance. Goodreads does that though. Reviews from friends and people you follow are shown first
I don't mind a goodreads alternative, but regarding the UI from 2005, I am not sure I care. It works and people are used to it. I am not a supporter of "let's try build a new interface using shiny new technology" for the sake of new .
Less optimized for farming my attention and ads, more optimized for me discovering things, and not being shoehorned into choices.
There isn't a good way of sorting through all the stuff out there and I feel like I am missing a bunch of content worth reading as a result.
Out of curiosity how did you initially populate your site?
I think most people looking for an alternative to Goodreads are using Storygraph.
How does this compare to https://www.thestorygraph.com/ ?
They also de-emphasize reviews, hiding them under a button. There are no likes or comments on reviews, and they don’t have shelves like Goodreads.
But to me, a big part of Goodreads is the community, library organization, and reviews, so I want to emphasize those on Kaguya.
Also, I just think our design is much better.