A Decade After Amazon Bought Goodreads, Its Big Update Is Half-Star Ratings
venturetwins · x · 2026-10-07
After years of user requests, Goodreads finally shipped a new feature: quarter- and half-star book ratings. venturetwins calls it big-company 'innovation' at its finest — the app has barely changed since Amazon acquired it over a decade ago, perhaps gotten buggier, and years of begging yielded half stars.
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