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Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by chris_st on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:35PM (#46423056)
Recommended this to a friend who hates keeping track of "how many" kinds of things, and was dismayed at having to say how many books they've read (which they really don't want to do) and found they couldn't skip that question.

Maybe make it optional?

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Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by bwb on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:24PM (#46424372)
Yeah, sorry, it was on my list to make optional or remove this year, but I didn't have time. It is on there, and I'll see what I can do tomorrow.

The original idea was that we should weight votes more if someone has read 50 or 100 books, since their 3 favorites might receive a higher vote than someone who has read 12. Rough idea that we haven't tested yet on the data.

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Re:Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/au... by bwb on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:45AM (#46432335)
btw, we are working to remove this step as we speak, should be gone in a few days :)
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