Does it support ActivityPub? Bookwyrm does. That seems to me to be a basic requirement for a social network at this point.
Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
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#92Most rating systems suck because the rating is relative to the reviewer but the interpretation is relative to the reader. And of course the rating relative to the reviewer at that time.
After decades of reading, there are probably only four fiction ratings for me:
Recommend - to a specific reader or genre
I read it multiple times over years
It's OK, but at this point it's bookshelf filler
I sold it.
There's usually a good thing in every book. I mean, the first 8 Stephanie plum books were fun...but it gets old. The hobbit/LOTR? I'd never recommend those today. I loved thr Thomas Covenant stuff back in the day, but today? No. But The Black Company and Garret PI series are the gifts that keep on giving.
Capturing that in a one dimensional measure is impossible...but it's been Good Enough for years. But you can try to make it better.
Re: Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
#93I like the design of the landing page and the book pages a lot! Well done.
I didn't use Goodreads, but I'm considering Bookwyrm now, because it supports ActivityPub, which is awesome, because I want to avoid vendor/network lock-in if possible.
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#94Is there any way to add/request/suggest books that aren't currently in the index?
Re: Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
#95The only rating system you actually need is binary (or "the binary")
Is it good or bad? Would you eat it again or not? Are they hot? Would you? etc
Every thing else can be expressed with words on the side.
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#96> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars) Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book? Personally I think 4 levels is sufficient. Either it's rather bad, not bad but not good, good but not great or it's great. Anything beyond that will have to be written in words.
Sure, but can we really deny that the 5 star rating is pretty decent and simple, having an exact middle point and then two levels for each side.
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#97> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars) Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book? Personally I think 4 levels is sufficient. Either it's rather bad, not bad but not good, good but not great or it's great. Anything beyond that will have to be written in words.
Goodfilms (goodfil.ms), rest in peace, had a great two-rating system with Quality and Rewatchability, because the latter turned out to be a really useful metric. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3082241 One of the main frustrations I have with Goodreads is how limited the API is nowadays, and how there appear to be no measures against brigading and other campaigns. One of the core issues with ratings services. Pe…
I'm curious—what would you like to do with the API?
Re: Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
#98> 10-star rating system (More nuance than 5 stars) Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book? Personally I think 4 levels is sufficient. Either it's rather bad, not bad but not good, good but not great or it's great. Anything beyond that will have to be written in words.
Goodfilms (goodfil.ms), rest in peace, had a great two-rating system with Quality and Rewatchability, because the latter turned out to be a really useful metric. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3082241 One of the main frustrations I have with Goodreads is how limited the API is nowadays, and how there appear to be no measures against brigading and other campaigns. One of the core issues with ratings services. Pe…
How does one use an average Rewatchability score to determine whether one should watch a movie?
If I'm trying to pick a movie, I don't care what its score for rewatching is, I care about what its score is for watching it the first time.
And once I've watched a movie, I don't care about whether other people say I should watch it again, I care about whether I want to watch it again.
A movie is different from buying a board game. If I'm shelling out $50 for a game, I'll want to know if it's still fun the twentieth time I play. But that isn't a consideration when picking a new movie to watch, the experience may be worth it even if I never watch it again. And ditto with books. I'm probably not going to read that 800-page book again, but that shouldn't stop me reading it once.
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#99Your competition is not Goodreads, but https://joinbookwyrm.com/
I've joined Storygraph, LibraryThing, and I think a few others. Never heard of Bookwyrm before. I still use Goodreads almost exclusively. Goodreads is still the competition. If you mean competition specifically between alternative to Goodreads, I think LibraryThing is the most popular by a fair bit. After a quick look around Bookwyrm, it definitely doesn't look like the one I'd choose. I'm mostly seeing "some rando's…
Bookwyrm is built on ActivityPub, you won't have any single server, but a constellation of them
However, its strongest point on it's favor is that anyone creating content on AP automatically has a potential reach of a few million users.
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#100Tech Stack Backend: Elixir & Phoenix Database: PostgreSQL with Supabase (originally CockroachDB, big mistake) Auth: Supabase Frontend: Next.js UI Components: shadcn GraphQL API: Absinthe Hosting: Fly.io (Phoenix) + Vercel (Next.js) Storage: Cloudflare R2 + CDN
Why Next.js and not Liveview?
Little note: It seems the search is only by book title, not by author and not resilient to typos.