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

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

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

santoshmaharshiOP7y ago

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

billfruit7y 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.

kieckerjan7y 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.

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

santoshmaharshiOP7y 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.

qnsi7y 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_sze7y 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.

santoshmaharshiOP7y ago

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

k_sze7y ago

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

chiefalchemist7y ago

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

billfruit7y 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.

santoshmaharshiOP7y 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/

santoshmaharshiOP7y 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/

santoshmaharshiOP7y 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_ia7y ago

Getting 500 Error

santoshmaharshiOP7y ago

Sorry, checking it out.

pictur7y ago

500 server error

santoshmaharshiOP7y ago

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

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