[ainzzorl]

> Amazon basically didn't touch it since the acquisition almost a decade ago.

This is what I love about it. When something works for me (and Goodreads does), I don't want it to change.

[input_sh]

It's not a good thing when there are glaring issues that remain unfixed, like books receiving 1 star reviews while they're still being written.

[Brybry]

Personally, as a Goodreads user I don't care about the review ratings.

I'm there for: a) making a list of things I want to read b) finding more books by authors (including upcoming) to add to that list c) release dates for books on that list (and sorting that list by date) d) seeing what other people are reading

All of those tasks were time consuming before Goodreads and I'm extremely happy that some let's-refactor-our-website-for-whatever-reason push hasn't broken my use case.

1 and 5 star ratings for unreleased books are dumb but humans are really bad at 5 star rating systems anyway.

I find there's far more value in the number of ratings, but in the end books are often about personal taste.