As a non-useful aside: That's funny to me, the painful UI of Goodreads smelled like Rails to me. It's engineers trying to solve problems "the Rails way" which l

As a non-useful aside: That's funny to me, the painful UI of Goodreads smelled like Rails to me. It's engineers trying to solve problems "the Rails way" which leads to poorly designed forms, UX, errors reported to the user, etc. It feels similar to Basecamp, which was notoriously so hard to update that they made version 3 and 4 instead of just improving the existing site. Another victim of a Rails monolith, nice. And a victim of Ruby and Rails' horrific magic that sounds like it's very dangerous to refactor. Unlike Github, I'm guessing Amazon doesn't have core Ruby and Rails maintainers on staff to help keep the thing afloat.