Suggestions for site redesign
Brayn on 3/22/2019 9:21:14 AM
Episode last modified by Brayn on 3/22/2019 9:21:28 AM
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A tagging system/categories to tag stories/episodes would be very helpful. Would make it a lot easier to find what your looking for instead of digging through endless episodes
A recently upvoted list, sorted by something like "frecency" of upvotes combined with distance from story root and age, maybe with boost to leaves... The idea being that if someone ends up at an old dead end branch from the root and upvotes it, it gets some visibility somewhere to hopefully spark an idea in someone else to pick it up.
Oh and maybe a "Watch Branch" thing where if a branch gets a new child it notifies you, like you can have it do for branches you wrote.
A messaging system so I can see if people want to add to my branches lol as well as talk about ideas to the ones that do
@bigbustgazer The ability to subscribe to an author and/or branch is something I considered a while ago, and the site is now in a good place to implement that. Expect to see these features relatively soon. As for a recently upvoted list, that might take a bit longer. Currently upvotes are not stored with timestamps, so I'd need to add timestamps and then give it a while to actually populate with timestamped upvotes so the list returns meaningful results. And as for weighting that based on depth and/or being a leaf...we'll see. I'm not sure how exactly that would work mathematically. @Switchchick It's extremely unlikely that I will add a native messaging system any time soon. I toyed around with the idea while ago, but I think it would cause more trouble than it's worth. For now I'll just say that users who wish to be contacted should add some contact info (email, social media handle, etc) on their profile page. If you wish to contact a user and they've not provided any such info, you can try leaving a comment on one of their episodes or posting in The Forum asking for them. Not a great solution I know, but I don't think we really need messaging, and it would require moderation to prevent potential abuse, and like I said, I don't think it's worth the trouble. @Crazytigerboy Brayn also has some kind of idea for a tagging/grouping scheme that we've been discussion. Not really sure how that's going to work, but expect for something to happen in that regard at some point.
Also a simple limit on how wide the text can be, for readability you don't really want lines of text to average more than about 80-100 characters IIRC or your eyes have touble landing in the right place when you go down a line. I often find myself resizing my browser window when looking at FB just so the lines of text are shorter.
Perhaps a way to change the background color? Like instead of blue it can be red, green, etc.
@Code if you're logged in you can [change your theme](/fb/changetheme) under [account settings](/fb/useraccount). You can find account settings by clicking your name in the top right corner of any page.
its really sloppy that the site just piles all of the stories into one story. just let people post new branch stories so they arent all hidden away in some sub story never to be updated. if this site just had a feed of new branches like how writing.com is it be way more active.
the And Now for Something Completely Different! branch for example at the very least needs to be on the front page.
It's been discussed, the original site design limited the number of "parent" stories deliberately to avoid Writing.com style plagues of a large number of interactives with only one or two episodes. The idea we were working on was large interactives that eventually took off would be promoted to root level wtih YAWYW, FOG and AF. We just don't want the site overloaded with junk content either. AS for ANFCD, at the moment the site is still being developed, the ability to "promote" stories is being worked on still.
@bryan but thats kind of exactly what the site is in the current method. its full of stories most people wont touch or see cause they are in such a big blob.
Why are story text fields so narrow now? It's like we're back in the 90s when monitor resolutions were in the 800x600 to 1024x768 range. An option to allow the text to occupy the width of the monitor would be really appreciated.
Maybe add hits/views/upvotes counts to the author profile page chapter listing so that you can see the hit count without incrementing it and see how your chapters are received without looking at all of them.