[wahnfrieden]

It’s good if you are part of that community which was built around specific shared interests including specific works of writing. He’s an author of books.

It’s like making the point that a cookout you saw while driving past a private event venue on the other side of town is not a good solution for everybody else wanting a restaurant to eat at - so what?

[protocolture]

>It’s like making the point that a cookout you saw while driving past a private event venue on the other side of town is not a good solution for everybody else wanting a restaurant to eat at - so what?

Context here is that this is being explicitly marketed as a goodreads replacement.

One of the features of goodreads is... a recommendation engine.

Once analysed you can see that this website does not contain a recommendation engine, but its just a static list of books people on the guys twitter replacement liked.

Your analogy is flawed, this is like getting food recommendations based on complaints posted to the community notice board.

The only way this is a goodreads replacement is if your entire understanding of goodreads comes from the name.

Goodreads is flawed but the fix isnt to deliver it without any features.

[wahnfrieden]

No, it’s marketed in the post as being explicitly for the paid community to replace their book sharing that happens on the private Twitter-like message board they have for the community.

The Goodreads reference is also valid as many (like myself) use it primarily for its friend feeds. I’ve never looked at its recommendation engine. It’s just one feature, as you say.

[protocolture]

Cool so its nothing like good reads, glad we agree.