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Q: Goodreads website redesign. Will this (goodreads-toolbox) still work, or "what's the future?" #37

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WaterSibilantFalling opened this issue Dec 30, 2021 · 2 comments

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WaterSibilantFalling commented Dec 30, 2021

See your nearest www.goodreads.com

This is a question: which of the tools here still work?

OK: it's being rolled out, I sometimes get the new version, sometimes the old. But it's here.

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andre-st commented Dec 30, 2021

The unit tests for the toolbox library in the latest repository version (updated today) all pass at the moment.
These compare expected values ​​with what the toolbox library extracts from Goodreads.
So the tools should work too, since they only delegate to the library and then just add up the values.

The tests and some information are in the t-folder in the project directory.

Future:
In the last few months I had hardly any time or motivation for the project. There will only be maintenance releases in the future. At least I use the recentrated tool on a daily basis and I have an interest in making sure it works.
Every now and then I run the unit tests. I will then see how complex it is to make adjustments for the Goodreads website redesign. As far as I know, the redesign currently only affects the book detail pages.

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andre-st commented Feb 1, 2023

Now, a year later, it's not unlikely that the changes will remain limited to the book page.

The goal of the redesign is perhaps less geared towards Goodreads members and more towards people searching book titles on Google, which prioritizes mobile-friendly pages in its rankings.
Such people then see advertisements or are redirected to the Amazon site.

Here Goodreads' one-off effort would at least have an immediate monetary effect over hundreds of thousands of book pages (as far as an outsider can judge).

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