Every single time a Goodreads post comes up it's always negative and the comments are full of supposedly better alternatives. Except those alternatives are never better. I've tried most of them and they very often are ghost towns or don't even have the book I'm reading, let alone recommend anything useful. LibraryThing comes the closest, but its UI is equally bad if not worse than Goodreads. Goodreads is good enough for me. I follow and am followed by enough people that writing reviews is worth it.