1 hour ago, drown said:

A "Reading Now" section that lists stories that were started and have unfinished or new chapters as well as new stories from authors that I follow. This would require the system tracking a "read" status for chapters though, so might be more involved.

This exists now and is called "Reading History". You need to turn it on to make use of it.

"Reading History Stores a maximum of 50 stories for up to 30 days.  If you wish to keep your track of your stories long term, add them to a Collection!"

I have made notes on your other request.

2 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't there already a font-size adjustment on the mobile phone app?  I know I have adjusted font size in the past.  And I don't think it is a function of the phone, but of the site.

There is, yes. Though he asked for more.

For reference, the site uses something called fluid design. There is only 1 theme which adjusts to fit the device you are on. The 'mobile version' just shrinks down and moves around the elements. You can see this on a desktop by making your browser really small like a phone.  The theme fluidly reshapes to fit the size of your browser.

3 hours ago, centexhairysub said:

Can you arrange a time machine?  I need more time to read.

2 hours ago, ReaderPaul said:

So do I!

4 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

1. When selecting a story and one clicks on the author, one gets to the author's story collection. Good! But if I then click on the author anywhere, I can never get to their profile, only always again to the story collection. Unless I search for the member, I cannot see their profile. Maybe I am missing a point (and click) ?

@drown already covered, but yes.. Click Name to get Author Profile (Story Listing) and click Photo to get Member Profile (site profile)

4 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

2. Blogs/clubs/activity. I use the "All activity" a lot, but it just is a lot what I would consider "irrelevant" (sorry). I tried using the options in the "My activity stream", but then I missed stuff. My first request would be the ability to unfollow a thread.

This is not part of the Story Archive and changes to its function our largely outside our control.  Thus outside the purpose of this discussion.  On the Activity system "All Activity" is, oddly enough, All Activity you have access to. there is no Follow or unfollow... it's All Activity. That's it's purpose. Creating your Own activity stream would allow you more flexibility, but it is a fiddly system and beyond the capabilities of most of our users. Thus we don't bring it up often. 

5 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

My second would be some clarification around blogs/clubs/updates. I do not know what bugs me there, but it "doesn't feel right". Sorry. Probably the word of the day which is posted as new entry when I go to "Writing World" I get hundreds of word of the day entries which drowns all other content of that blog/club.

When you go to the Writing World Blog, just select categories if the normal sorting is too much for you.

5 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

All Activity

All Activity shows ALL Activity you have access to. Some Clubs are Open (anyone can post), Public (Anyone can see, but only members can post), Closed ( You can see it's there and request to join, but you can't see any activity until you do), and Private (You can't see it unless invited). Comicality Club, like other Fan Clubs are open to be seen, but you have to be a member to post.  So, that's why it is visible in All Activity.

5 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

3. "Member dashboard", another one I use frequently. The "story of the moment" selection mechanism seems to be limited. It seems to suggest from a limited pool. I get suggested the same story several times whereas there are probably a lot of hidden gems that are never seen there.

Someone is using the Member Dashboard?  That's a page with a lot of widgets and test features.  As for the Story of the Moment, it is tucked away on the MEmber Dashboard and not being used any where else because of that limitation. There is a bug that we were not able to fix previously.  With the changes to the underlying software since the last attempt, it might be fixable now.  I'll add the "Story of the Moment" widget back on to our develop list.

5 hours ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

More later, work now.

Please keep this topic on Story Archive and Story related features/functions.  Those are much more under our direct control than other software and thus something we can do something about.

16 hours ago, Bryson said:

One thing I would love to see, but is probably too much to ask, is a way to search in the text of the stories (and including the tags, genres, etc., if possible) with keywords (and hopefully Boolean operators and modifiers).  I often find myself trying to find a story that I had read months ago where I can't remember the author or the title, just some of the details of the story itself.  Like I said, this is a lot to ask, but I wanted to throw it out there.

You can search the text of the story chapters by selecting story chapter in the search box.  If you don't narrow it down, it searches everywhere.  Tags/genres are not search able fields in the same way, however.