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How did you define the actual "best books" ? I usually pick a group (Goodreads users in country x), scrape the books of all its users, and sort them by frequenc

• bbarnett 6y ago
  Thinking on johnfn's response, and yours, these are all simple SQL queries. You could easily delineate to others what each query does, and let people choose from a list. EG "best average" "most reviewed" "users in country + frequency" and such. This doesn't even need to hit performance, as these queries could all run on a secondary SQL server, be cached in redis/whatever once an hour, or even day. After all, this sort of list output doesn't need to be second by second changing. So simple to implement, non-performance impacting, which makes it even more curious as to 'why not'. Likely, a UI/UX person thinks it will 'confuse' people. (I know that may not be the case, but it seems to kill more sites, and more flexible functionality, than anything...)