Show HN: ReadersChatter – Come start a chatter on a book

vbsteven 7 years ago |

Is there a way to use it without connecting to Twitter? I don’t have a twitter account.

Hey, thanks for your interest, sure would share the good update soon, it's on the way.

billfruit 7 years ago | | |

I think you could have waited till you got that ready before posting the link on to HN, now most of the discussion here will be likely to be about the Twitter login requirements.

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | | |

IMHO not the point. As there could be many options of doing a thing, and we chose this. This is not about right or wrong. Both the options and there will be many more. They are all good :-)

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | | |

We love, appreciate and respect user feedback. Maybe they would like that way, content up front on the home page. Let us think about that.

kieckerjan 7 years ago |

Pity that you cannot get a preview without logging in. Judging by the other comments this gripe is shared by many visitors. A pity for you that you have to waste your moment in the HN limelight to get to this insight. I hope you take it to heart.

mattz0rt 7 years ago | |

I dipped after seeing that they'd have permission to send tweets and view my dm's. Just viewing my profile should be sufficient for login permissions

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | |

Hey - We do understand your point of view and of others on the thread. This is our beta launch and as your will appreciate that many things are in WIP :-) Do check user and book pages https://readerschatter.com/readerschatter

BTW we will do some tests and arrive at more researched and tested home page. As on the internet, many people do keep a login page like this. So its also a matter of choice and we took that option for beta launch.

qnsi 7 years ago | | |

But can you name one page that makes me login with twitter and asks for permission to send tweets from my account and read my dms? Why do you need to read my dms and write tweets in my name?

k_sze 7 years ago |

Cool idea. One thing that’s annoying about dealing with books (not just this platform in particular) is that there can be multiple editions of the same book where the contents are essentially the same. This is especially true for work that is really old or in the public domain. E.g. if I put “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” in the search field, it turns up many different editions. I’m not sure which conversation to join. I get the feeling that the conversation/community might get fragmented all over the place.

Unfortunately I don’t have a real solution to this, short of crowdsourcing for data entry to mark editions as equivalent and merge the conversations that way.

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | |

Very true. You seem to have worked on this :-) Trying to solve this problem. Will try to post you.

k_sze 7 years ago | | |

And then there's the question of whether you want to consider translations to be equivalent.

chiefalchemist 7 years ago |

I'm intrigued. But tell me more pleaae before I hand over my Twitter handle.

billfruit 7 years ago | |

Kind of annoying though, from the description it looked like something interesting, but looks like you can even see a glimpse of anything unless you login with Twitter.

Ideally some content/information/description should be shown to make the user decide if it is worthwhile or not, but sadly it is not the case.

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | | |

Sure, noted. Please do try the link. Shows content to people if they lang on book or a user page directly, instead of a home page https://readerschatter.com/readerschatter/

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | |

Sure, noted your comments for review. If someone lands on the book page or user page, they can see content without logging in https://readerschatter.com/readerschatter/

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago |

Many thanks, HN Community for your good feedback, visits, and logins. We hit it good today, We cant thank you enough today being Saturday. Do keep sharing your feedback.

ai_ia 7 years ago |

Getting 500 Error

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | |

Sorry, checking it out.

pictur 7 years ago |

500 server error

santoshmaharshi 7 years ago | |

Oh! Sorry, you had to see that. Getting it checked ASAP.