The idea of bookwyrm software is pretty good.
Something focused on books is something I definitely like to have in my toolbox.
Unfortunately, two days of playing with https://bookwyrm.social/ made a very negative impression on me.
I have no idea are those problems just instance related, or soft related, but it's pretty unusable.
@digital_carver Yeah, it’s simple to describe.
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Half of the time I get 504 Gateway Timeout.
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I don’t see posts about books on another activity pub servers
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Sometimes I can’t post review or import book with no reason.
That’s I call unusable.
@engelbart
Oh damn. Those do sound like the signs of software someone set up once and then let bitrot take over.
@digital_carver there is a good how-to how to setup it https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/install-prod.html
but I didn’t find time to follow it yet.
Would you like to? To check which side is faulty ?
@engelbart
Sounds interesting. I wouldn’t have time in the next few days either, but maybe the next weekend? Fingers crossed!
@engelbart #feditips is saying that bookwyrm.social is innundated (presumably overflow from the #twitterMigration) and interested users should join another server
@engelbart
I haven’t tried it yet, what makes it unusable? I’d been looking for an Open #Goodreads replacement for a long time, came to know about #Bookwyrm a few days ago, and was hoping it would be the one.