Hi! I work on Open Library. The project is entirely open source, with an active community, so anyone can contribute fixes/features on GitHub: https://github.com

Hi! I work on Open Library. The project is entirely open source, with an active community, so anyone can contribute fixes/features on GitHub: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary And yeah, searching needs some work! That's on my task list for this month. Just this Friday I spent most of my day working on updating our search engine, Solr, from 3.6 to 8.7 (wip!). But search is a _BIG_ pain point. We're a small team with a big long list of things to do, but we are making progress! This year we updated to Python 3, switched most of our production environments to docker-based for easier deploys and to give open source contributors more control of production infra, added reading history stats for users, added a new interface for exploring books, worked on a novel recommendation system, added text selection to the online BookReader for public domain books, added GoodReads importing, grew our community, added the ability to search by classification, and much, much more (you can see highlights from our year here: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3891 https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/3891 ). There is still _definitely_ a lot to do, but I think the biggest reason worth using/contributing to Open Library is likely its open source community. Anyone can jump in and help make improvements to the system (as they very often do!). Personally, I think it's more likely that a system with a community will survive/flourish than one maintained by a single person (I also wondered whether I should just create my own before contributing to and now working on Open Library!). And there are also loads of different tasks associated with a site like OL, which would be impossible for me to do if I was going it alone. If you would be interested, checkout the GitHub repo: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary . It's very active, and you can get an idea of how we work :)