Daniel > Status Update

Increasing functionality doesn't seem to be high on the GR priority list.

I've wished for the same thing a lot of times, Daniel.

Yeah, it doesn't really feel that they've added any features in years. Changes seem to be more like the giant green want to read button.

And deleting things. Like the personalized "most read authors" function.

@Elena - Seems obvious doesn't it?

@Teal - I can't understand why they would remove that. I mean I guess I could figure it out myself if I had to with an export, but I hardly think it was a big resource drain.

I think the last change I was excited about was when they added the recommendation engine, not that it's really that good. Although mostly it recommends me things I've already read or looked at and decided I don't want to read, so it's at least showing me stuff that caught my attention at some point. Still since Amazon changed the way they rec stuff from lists to those horrible little tiles, I do look at GR's occasionally. (I find amazon's recs good, but you have to very carefully weed the garden and rate stuff to keep it on track.)

Daniel wrote: "Still since Amazon changed the way they rec stuff from lists to those horrible little tiles, I do look at GR's occasionally."

Amazon was my primary source of book recommendations for at least 15 years. And of course I then bought my books from them. I "weeded the garden" scrupulously, and the system worked brilliantly. They destroyed that highly functional system and replaced it with an unusable monstrosity. Now I bypass it entirely, and buy a measurable percentage of my books directly from publishers. In what world did they "improve" things for themselves? Idiots.

Yeah, I still attempt to look at amazon's recommendations and go in and rate stuff and apply the "do not use for recommendations" button judiciously, but it's not a pleasant experience anymore that's for sure.