[nomadicelf]

I was a happy Goodreads user and librarian for many years, but quit the service completely last month, when they irrevocably changed their book interface. Old interface was one of the main reasons I liked Goodreads. I wrote them two feedback emails during testing period asking them to leave at least an option to switch back - never even got a reply. Oh well, I guess they don't need me as a user.

As for Footnote, when I go to https://footnote.cc all I can see is a sign up form and nothing else. I generally hate creating accounts, unless I absolutely have to. And here the first thing you ask me to do - is to sign up ... just to browse through your web site. No, thanks.

I guess I'll stick to my .ods spreadsheet for now.

[badtension]

It took me a while to understand what all those "growth hacks", shady tactics, dark patterns lead to in the end. In the beginning I was very excited (as an engineer) about A/B testing and how you can nudge people to boost clicks/revenue/whatever, measure everything and experiment.

A few years ago it got to me that this was how business sociopaths operate and why most modern things are broken. Chasing some holy grail and gaming the system instead of making useful things that matter to people.

[nicobelll]

Ah sorry about that - I thought I had set it up in a way that you can browse and view books without signing up but apparently most people were asked to sign up right away. Not my intention - I'll have to fix and make another post to get so actual feedback

[badtension]

That is great, my ramblings weren't necessarily directed towards your approach (I don't know your case), it's just something that is often on my mind lately, especially with big corps doing it more and more openly. Sorry if it sounded like that, I hope everything works out for you.