Why has no one made a better Goodreads

Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by bagofbones on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:26AM (#26835029)

I hear you. It's not broken. It does serve the primal use cases like shelving, reviews/ratings, meta-information pretty well. But there is also so much more to the experience of reading. Is Goodreads really the best we deserve?

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Re:Why has no one made a better Goodreads by FalconSensei on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:45PM (#26846447)

> But there is also so much more to the experience of reading

Like what? For me, most of the experience of reading is:

1 - actually reading the book

2- sharing my thoughts/recommending it

3 - seeing what other people recommend.

Goodreads, Youtube and Reddit cover all my needs for #2 and #3, and any attempt to cover the social aspect of it will pale in comparison to those 3, at least regarding #3.

For instance, there are things that I don't like about Twitter, and Mastodon has some things that I like, like being able to tag a specific post as NSFW, or add a spoiler tag to make part of the text hidden. But after a few months of using it in parallel to Twitter, I ended up abandoning it, because ''everyone''[0] is on Twitter.

[0] I mean: my real life friends, my online friends, bloggers, youtubers, cosplayers, illustratos, support profiles for online stores and services.

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