Did some testing this morning with Goodreads and it’s slow and clunky. Timeouts. Really happy with how much we’ve streamlined Micro.blog’s bookshelves so they are fast. Paraphrasing a Jason Fried quote: we can’t predict the future of technology, except that no one is going to want apps to be slower.
Rene van Belzen I blame web frameworks written in some language, translated into JavaScript. It’s bloatware. Not everyone has a 1 Mbps symmetric Internet connection, but apparently, developers at Amazon have.
Brian Grinter @manton I basically just use it to track what I’ve read and it’s maddeningly slow - look forward to something better
Brian Grinter @manton do you have a link? Not a search engine friendly name for software
Manton Reece @bgrinter Oh yeah, very difficult to find via web search… There are links to the iOS App Store and Google Play at the top of this site: epilogue.micro.blog
Alejandro Martinez @manton Goodreads situation is so sad. Is the de facto standard because most of the community and authors are there. But is barely maintained and the api is deprecated. I have an app that I use to track progress, but I won’t update cause it will be useless anytime soon.