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I’d like to thank Goodreads for helping me manage my time better. You wouldn’t believe how much time it’s freed up now that I’m not getting email notifications. I only visit the site when I’m reviewing a book.
— Oct 21, 2024 07:57PM
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Gavin
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Oct 25, 2024 01:17AM
Why does it seem like every update makes this place worse?
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I honestly don't know what they were trying to accomplish. My supposition last night was that they must be saving money by not pushing electrons around for emails? (only half joking here). And trying to encourage page views for ads? Except email updates kept me coming back to the site. Now I check every 4-5 days.
It's basically made the place feel like a ghost town. All the interaction is dead. I expect you're right about it being a cost thing though.
At least there's one positive in this GR mess 😂
Thank you, goodreads, for helping us reclaim precious free time now that we're interacting less frequently with the site. /sThe thing is, sending e-mails is free, so I don't see the cost issue either. 😞
What Daniel said. This site feels like a shell now. If their goal was to manipulate us into logging in more, ok, maybe it's doing that, but it's not making us engage more, and engagement is what keeps people on the site for a long time. :/ A friend emailed me a link the other day to the Wikipedia entry for "enshittificaton." Look it up. (I'd post a link if it were allowed.) It sounds like what's happening to GR:
"Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders."
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✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans)
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My inbox has been downright empty since they killed email notifications. And yes, this has freed up lots of time for me as well, but GR is now deader than it's ever been, as Daniel mentioned. The worst thing is that most on-site notifications are gone as well, since you aren't made aware of other's comments unless you check the bloody "Notify me when people comment" box at the bottom of updates and reviews.
It feels like they want to kill all interactions on the site. What's next, getting read of groups? 🙄🙄
That stupid checkbox is screwing everything up. I hardly ever get on-site notifications anymore.
