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Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 7:57 pm
by Paolo
I miss the German Storys
Wir arbeiten.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:36 am
by kkks (imported)
Thank you for bringing the story archive back.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:52 pm
by SDBoyTrainer (imported)
Ditto. Thanks for bringing the story archives back. I have certainly missed it. I can imagine how much work has gone into it so thank you!
Also thanks to Slammr for the tip about the checkbox and button. I wasn't seeing them as I had scripting turned off and didn't know why I couldn't get in with my user name and password. Turned on scripting for that page, saw them and got in. DOH!
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 6:39 pm
by nuts2nail (imported)
Thanks, not only for the return of the Story Archive, but for all the hard work you all do to keep this site up and running on a daily basis. A true labor of love.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:55 pm
by curious_guy (imported)
Losethem (imported) wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:13 am
On the old system one of the things I thought worked very well was that the stories were presented both alphabetically and by author. There were two ways to access the stories. Also, many have a favorite author, and doing an alpha by author name may facilitate a quicker access to those stories the user is looking for.
The biggest thing I think you have a great opportunity to fix is the story genre tags. IE Gay, Straight, Bi-sexual, Male, female, castration, nullo, penectomy, etc. Is there a way to tag the stories so a user could bring up a list that will show only straight stories, gay stories, castration stories, nullo stories, etc.? That would cut a lot of wandering through the larger story database by the users and the could more readily narrow their search by going to those stories specific to the genre they are looking for.
I agree with all of the points you have made. I think it might be time to add an index by author. When I find a story on the EA or a book in the library I like, I usually read everything I can find by that author. I think many other people do the same thing. With the present system, users cannot tell who the author is without opening the story.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:16 pm
by Paolo
You just get that script written right up and send it over, CG; I'm sure talula will be glad to be saved the duty of doing it.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:10 pm
by Cainanite (imported)
curious_guy (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:55 pm
I agree with all of the points you have made. I think it might be time to add an index by author. When I find a story on the EA or a book in the library I like, I usually read everything I can find by that author. I think many other people do the same thing. With the present system, users cannot tell who the author is without opening the story.
Hey curious_guy.
It is coming. Sooner or later it will happen. Tal is working on a lot of stuff right now. When it is finished, the EA will have one of the finest story sites on the internet.
Right now the focus has been on getting the stories back, and formatted for the new site. We should all be happy that the stories are back whatever form they appear in right now.
We're all working feverishly to get the stories back on line. Please be patient with us. There are a HUGE amount of stories, and it takes a HUGE amount of time. I've been editing stories since I got up today, and I've only got through about 40 or so. There is something like 10,000 to complete.
It may actually take a year before the new site is fully operational. I for one, can wait. Believe me, it is going to be worth it.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:39 pm
by Paolo
I just did one that took me almost an hour.
For ONE story.
It was long, and had NO paragraph breaks due to all the times it's been 'reuploaded' in the crashes.
It wasn't fun.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:11 pm
by volt1960 (imported)
IMHO there are a number of junk stories, often under 500 words, that it would probably be ok to skip. Also the very poorly formatted stories may not be worth saving if they are badly written too.
Thanks for all of your hard work on this, really pleased with your progress. Hope you can add an option to upload new stories in the next few months too.
Re: The Story Archive
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:42 pm
by Slammr (imported)
Paolo wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:39 pm
I just did one that took me almost an hour.
For ONE story.
It was long, and had NO paragraph breaks due to all the times it's been 'reuploaded' in the crashes.
It wasn't fun.
I didn't realize what the problem was until I tried one of the longer - no parsed stories -. I had to take it to Word, and even there, it's going to be a while getting through it. I like the story, but it's a multi-part story that's going to take a long time to finish. When I took out the format code at the top of the story using Tal's editor it dumped every line break in the story, so my choice was to figure out where every line break belonged or to export it to Word first.
The story is First Boy, posted by anonymous, but Ganymede is listed in the body of the story as the author. Not a bad piece of writing from what I've seen so far. Anyone know Ganymede?