Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads

Re:Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads by mminer237 on Monday February 28, 2022 @02:48PM (#30504222)

After using it a few minutes, it's apparent that it's a very social site. There are no public reviews. You can write reviews and share them with specific friends or post them to your wall, but they're only ever visible to your friends. Presumably this is a privacy-focused design decision intended to increase sociability, but it would make an anonymous account useless.

There are no GIFs.

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Re:Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads by justinberding on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:30PM (#30504725)

1). Persistent design choice, as its built to be primarily a social platform. We felt like an account with your name was bare minimum for something like this to function correctly.

2). No GIFs. But, noted that GIFs could be a fun add.

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Re:Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads by godshatter on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:22PM (#30506616)

If you add gifs, please allow an option to turn them off. That's one of my biggest pet peeves about Goodreads, a lot of reviewers put a gif after every sentence or two and it drives me up a wall. I want to read a review, not watch a series of tangentially-related short video snippets.

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Re:Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads by slickdork on Monday February 28, 2022 @05:04PM (#30505796)

I actually wanted to make sure there were no gifs. I feel like gifs ruin reviews and make low quality reviews get the most 'engagement'.

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