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While there are really bad things about goodreads, the article/interviews give me a vibe of "boohoo, we want to decide what people like and now they decide it themselves and we don't like that."
Seriously. I'd love an alternative that's anywhere close to basic functionality, but this article is beyond stupid.
Yes, allowing people outside whatever stupid circle to review books and have their reviews considered by other people is a good thing.
Now, a lot of the reviews are trash because a lot of people have stupid opinions on books. Some people just want something to trash and have reviews that reflect that. But that's equally true of "real critics" and their opinions are often just as bad.
Edit: I wonder if I could make a browser extension that recognizes book objects on one of the alternatives and lets you bulk select and make changes that way, replicating the flow or function calls they use now.
Storygraph is quite a good alternative from my experience
I've tried it.
It doesn't have lists at all, and while the tag sorting is nice, adding your own tags in bulk to replicate a list is entirely untenable.
I don't consider anything short of Goodread's table of all your books to select and make bulk changes remotely viable, and even that took me well over an hour the first time.