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Stories Software Update


Myr

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First thing this morning, I applied a new Stories Archive software update.  This was a minor update that was mostly focused on bugs.

  • Added new feature on forum posts that shows how many Stories you have reviewed and how many story/chapter comments you have made
  • Added "Story Review Guidelines", "Story Comment Guidelines" and "Chapter Comment Guidelines" feature that pops up a box when clicked that can offer general site guidelines for posting comments and reviews.  If you click on them currently, you'll get "Coming Soon"
  • Added a story-only reputation count, that is currently only showing to staff.  We're working on getting that changed so that it shows to staff and the author.  This directly affects those in the story moderation queue and the automatic promotion out of it. 
  • When browsing by World, Series, or Story, miscellaneous media items will no longer appear in the list.  Only banners for promoted author groups will show.
  • The "Featured Story" that the staff pins on the first page of the story listing, will now properly not cover the story search bar for non-author groups.
  • On stories where there are many Authors, Editors and Beta Readers, they will now be listed alphabetically.  (Main Author is always listed first and additional authors are alphabetical)
  • Unpublished chapter count where dozens of chapters were listed as unpublished is now corrected.
  • The meta data on stories should now correctly reflect published chapter data not everything.  (error was seen where it would say there are 10 chapters, but only 6 would be visible)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

The only major feature still in the pipeline are the Statistics.  We've been collecting them since Jan 2018.  There are more than 18,000,000 hits since that time. The release of the new forum version that required a lot of rewriting, delayed it.  There are also a number of bugs, some of them very stubborn, that we're still working on.  Some of this is caused by the default behavior of the underlying software that we have to work around.  (double notification thing on reactions, for example)

Stay Tuned and be sure to follow this blog.  It helps me track how useful people find these posts.

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ADD(makes me leave caps lock on). However, please add me to the people expressing thanks for what you do behind the curtain.

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