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Just had a look. Unsurprisingly, the demographic of the user base is skewed to IT professionals (at least at this time). Whether that’s a good thing is subjective, but I personally want broader perspectives on literature. I think this will be a difficult problem for bookwyrm to overcome.
Essentially series/universe discovery and news. This used to be massive painpoint for completionist me before Goodreads.
If anyone knows of any alternatives I'm all ears by the way.
I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered.
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- It sucks at recommending books. You may stumble upon some book in the home feed, but its recommendation is as good as if it didn't exist. - Lists suck. For example, it never anticipates even something as simple as abandoning a book (though you can create that). - There's like a whole industry of faking ratings and nobody cares about it enough to do anything about it. - It's owned by Amazon, but Amazon basically did…
Goodreads will always win simply because it's where all the users are. Like reddit or any huge site its usefulness isn't in the presented top layer (recommendations/front page/popular list of x) it's the depth of millions of users. If you read a relatively obscure book and look it up on goodreads then you read through the reviews to find users who gave a high quality write up and then look at that user's profile. Thi…
the signup confirmation email for BooKWyrm seems to have stopped working.
Heads up: The GoodReads export takes a long time. I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered.
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The whole instance is quite slow now. Email took something around 20min for me.
Probably the HN effect. Give it a day and I'd expect the site to speed up as the traffic falls.
Heads up: The GoodReads export takes a long time. I'm still waiting for mine to be delivered.
There are two types of data exports from GoodReads - a full data export, and a csv download. The csv download is what you want, and it is generally very quick ( https://www.goodreads.com/review/import )
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Goodreads will always win simply because it's where all the users are. Like reddit or any huge site its usefulness isn't in the presented top layer (recommendations/front page/popular list of x) it's the depth of millions of users. If you read a relatively obscure book and look it up on goodreads then you read through the reviews to find users who gave a high quality write up and then look at that user's profile. Thi…
In other words, stop trying, let's just stick with the current terrible status quo. That's a supremely unhelpful comment to make, intended to discourage anyone from improving things ever. Shall we all just go back to a cave and knock some rocks together?
It's on par with complaining about facebook and creating your own better version of facebook while completely ignoring the reason why everyone is on facebook to begin with.