@pimoore It's also a trust issue for me. For example: Micro.blog, Letterboxd, and Glass; all three have paid products and either a compromised free version or nothing free at all. Nice, simple, easy to understand... and then you can also find out info about the companies and how they work and so on.

It's not that hard to improve the experience of GoodReads, let's face it. The difficult task is to be honest whilst attempting to build a better product.