Some criticisms of BookWyrm.
This is for version 0.4.2, but it doesn't look like these things have changed up to 0.4.5. Some of these may also be federation issues rather than being a problem with BookWyrm per se.
- Searching for a book and adding a start date doesn't add the book to your shelf
- starting a book doesn't generate a status for followers
- my activity feed doesn't show my activity
- I can't add a book from my profile or the home page. I should be able to add a book from nearly every page there are books
I might post these as issues on their tracker.
@2ck I often feel feedback on Mastodon would be best / responsive... for this software or for Mastodon itself! (Feedback / comments could be on the side from Github which I do get is more process related etc but could let the non-Git fans have some place searchable like a guestbook type 1 page lol... (still good to skim / bookmark / re-process by developers if they want)
I feel detached from Mastodon sometimes because your need to be a git so it's "to be git or not to be." (and I don't use github for obvious typical moral reasons like "it's not ours"
but also I understand it's like a filter for more interested people, more coder-qualified, code-obsessed people.
I'm still looking for people to polish my suggestions but anyway at least I was organised to put them in 1 post for people to pick and choose:
