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Myr

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If you saw the announcements, I have been tweaking both Genres and Tags as we lurch ever closer to our major software update going to version 5 of Invision Community.  Invision has altered how they are handling tags and as such, we have to change Stories as well.  One of the nice things coming is that readers will be able to subscribe to genres and tags so when new stories get posted in the genre or with a tag, they'll get notified.  Though I'd only follow the more obscure ones, so you are buried in notifications.

One of the nice things is that every tag and every genre will get their own page with the ability to add a cover photo and description.  Here is an example from our Test Server for Word of the Day:

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Every entry would then appear below.  We can also feature an example that'll show up first.  This will be especially useful when we go to promote stories for guests. It'll be able to help surface some of our deeper content.

As part of this, I've been shuffling around some genres and tags.  

You can view them all here:
https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/genre-tag/

We remove the "Literary Fiction" Primary genre and consolidated it's sub-genres under general fiction. We also added some common general fiction sub-genres we were missing.  One exception of the historical literary sub-genre is under Historical.

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For Tags, we clarified categories and added more options.  The Content Warning Category will eventually be updated to be applied separately from the rest of the tags.  Sexual Content tag as well.  

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Authors are encouraged to update the tags on their stories.  Put the most relevant tags on each.  I encourage you to add some of the new, currently empty tags to our stories where they apply.

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Topher Lydon

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I will do the best I can, just... there are a few of them so it might take me a while :) 
Glad to help out though, and thanks for this @Myr

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ReaderPaul

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Scientist, knight, royal, explorer, editor, comedian.  Those might be possible additions to character roles/occupations.  (Though "Prince" implies royal.)

Under Paranormal/Speculative Elements -- possibly Alternate Reality, Space Travel, and Time Travel, and Shape Shifters?  

Good lists, @Myr.

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Topher Lydon

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Could I suggest : continuing or Long term partners as a relationship tag?

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38 minutes ago, Topher Lydon said:

I will do the best I can, just... there are a few of them so it might take me a while :) 
Glad to help out though, and thanks for this @Myr

@Topher Lydon, my suggestion would be to sort your stories by least views, and work down the list that way. The least read ones might need better tagging to get more attention.

Or, of course, you could sort by most views because those have been more visible.

Then again… newest?

It’s tough being prolific at times like these.

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23 minutes ago, Topher Lydon said:

Long-term partners

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31 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

possibly Alternate Reality, Space Travel, and Time Travel, and Shape Shifters?

Alternate Earth, space, time travel, and Shifters are already all tags.  

Tags can only appear once, even though we show them in categories.  There aren't actually categories.

 

Added explorer and scientist.  

We'll let the rest settle for now.

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Lee Wilson

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Question: Are we still limited to 8 tags?

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Myr

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3 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

Question: Are we still limited to 8 tags?

12 now.  But, again, we should only add tags that really fit. Not just adding ancillary ones because an item might fit.

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centexhairysub

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Oh lord, I can tell I am going to be so lost...

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Celian

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Oh god, updating will take a while, I guess. 

Good job, though! I really like some of the clarifications.

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13 hours ago, Myr said:

12 now.  But, again, we should only add tags that really fit. Not just adding ancillary ones because an item might fit.

If you use the ADD/SET tags from the story drop down menu, you can add more than twelve tags. I know because I had thirteen before editing story/tags to remove one. Probably, you don't have a limit set for using the ADD/SET tags menu option?

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38 minutes ago, William King said:

If you use the ADD/SET tags from the story drop down menu, you can add more than twelve tags. I know because I had thirteen before editing story/tags to remove one. Probably, you don't have a limit set for using the ADD/SET tags menu option?

Yes. that bug has been reported. Hence the reminder to stay under 12 until that bug is corrected.

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Thirdly

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Shit. Do I really have 23 stories? I think I just updated 6 or 7 and it doesn't feel like I've made a dent. 

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18 minutes ago, Thirdly said:

Shit. Do I really have 23 stories? I think I just updated 6 or 7 and it doesn't feel like I've made a dent. 

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I feel your pain.

 In my neck, back, legs, head…. Well, you get the picture.

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1 minute ago, Lee Wilson said:

I feel your pain.

 In my neck, back, legs, head…. Well, you get the picture.

Damn, Lee, you have more than twice my count. 😂

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Just now, Thirdly said:

Damn, Lee, you have more than twice my count. 😂

Yeah, and it looks like there are twice the number of tags. Not something I want to attack on my phone. But, gotta do it

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4 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

Yeah, and it looks like there are twice the number of tags. Not something I want to attack on my phone. But, gotta do it

Find a laptop or a tablet?? 

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Just now, Thirdly said:

Find a laptop or a tablet?? 

I have both, but circumstances force me to limit my time using the laptop. The tablet is never charged and probably wouldn’t be a big improvement over the phone.

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1 minute ago, Lee Wilson said:

I have both, but circumstances force me to limit my time using the laptop. The tablet is never charged and probably wouldn’t be a big improvement over the phone.

Godspeed - THUMBspeed 🫡

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Even worse, I don’t do the thumb typing thing. One finger, mostly swiping.

I wish I could sort my stories by the number of tags, I’d work from least to most. I suppose I can count them all and add it to my spreadsheet of all my stories.

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