Automatic story status change

[Timothy M.]

I've been looking for the tech blog where @Myr explained about the software update which lets GA change status on In Progress stories, which haven't had new chapters posted for a while. Ie changing to On short term hold or On long term hold. But I can't find it, so I'll have to ask this question:

Since the status apparently doesn't automatically change back to In Progress, when an author posts a chapter to an On Hold story, does that mean we should do it ourselves ?

If yes, it might be nice to have a reminder of this in the story editor, if possible.

If you want examples see @Lux Apollo's 

 

and several of Comicality's stories, eg

 

Edited January 28, 2020 by Timothy M.

[Myr]

3 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

Since the status apparently doesn't automatically change back to In Progress, when an author posts a chapter to an On Hold story, does that mean we should do it ourselves ?

Correct.  We do not automatically put the status back to "In Progress".  The author can choose to do this, but if they are posting slow enough to trigger the change to begin with, it's probably false advertising to switch it back to "In Progress".

3 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

If yes, it might be nice to have a reminder of this in the story editor, if possible.

No. It's not worth it for the software time investment.  If you are not posting fast enough not to get automatically tagged, then you're not likely to post a new chapter fast enough to avoid getting changed again.  Comsie posts a chapter about once per year per story, maybe.  For example. 

"In progress" implies regular posting.  Weekly, biweekly, monthly?  Any more than that and you're not really posting regularly.  And there are plenty of people that are militant about not reading a story until it's complete.  They might start reading a story that is posting regularly. 

[Timothy M.]

Thanks, @Myr  that's makes sense.