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Question Multipart Story subindexes

9 years 1 month ago #1 by Echo
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    • Hello,
    Here's a suggestion.

    Would it be possible to create subindexes, extra tags or something similar to easily list all the parts of a multipart story?

    For instance if I'm reading Ayla and the Birthday Brawl I would really appreciate having a button or something that showed me all parts of that story (and only those) instead of having to go back to the master index (which is getting humongous) to hunt down the next part of the story. Maybe adding story tags almost everywhere would help but I don't know how much of a PITA that would be.

    Yes, I know there's sort of a list on the wiki but that isn't quite what I'm looking for.

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    9 years 1 month ago #2 by Kristin Darken
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    • This is something I'd like to have as well... but no, it's not currently possible. Once I work out a way to implement such things, we'll work on adding them. ;)
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    9 years 1 month ago #3 by Valentine
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    • While perhaps not a perfect solution, the Wiki List of Canon Stories is sortable and has a link to the stories.
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    9 years 1 month ago #4 by DanZilla
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    • Perhaps, after all parts of a story have been posted, a list of links to the parts could be added to the top and/or bottom of each part?
    9 years 1 month ago #5 by Phoenix Spiritus
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    • Kristin did you ever have a chance to see if it was possible with tags to get a list of stories and not just the whole stories when clicking on a tag?

    Just wondering if creating a 'tag' for a multi-part story, and using the tagging system is a solution?

    (I suppose it is currently, just kind of annoying that the entirety of all the parts would be what you get, but still, reading them one often the other is what they wanted :p)
    9 years 1 month ago #6 by Kristin Darken
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    • DanZilla wrote: Perhaps, after all parts of a story have been posted, a list of links to the parts could be added to the top and/or bottom of each part?

    NO

    Sorry to be so adamant, but that is exactly the sort of thing going to the CMS is supposed to prevent. We want FEWER things that I have to do, not more.


    It's also not a hugely difficult problem... options exist to do these things. The problem is, few people use CMS without also having a full time IT department. Which mainly means no one has bothered to make it simple for the average user because your news site publisher isn't an average user. And the people making the final call on layouts and such generally have entire teams of people working for them. We're trying to do things that the system isn't designed for, using people who aren't computer savvy, without guaranteeing full time work for an IT department.
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    9 years 1 month ago - 9 years 1 month ago #7 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • When I went to Ayla and the Birthday Brawl (Chap 1), there was a tag for "Phase", which when clicked on brought me to a list of Ayla stories. Is that what you're looking for?

    The default sort is alphabetical rather than by posting date, but that can be changed by the viewer.

    The list doesn't included the more recent stories which have included Ayla (such as Wine, Women, and Ayla), because those are tagged with "Ayla" rather than "Phase".


    Have rules for standardized tagging been established yet? What is required for a character to earn a tag, code name vs first name tags, etc? I realize that actually fixing the tags is probably low priority, of course.
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    9 years 1 month ago #8 by Sir Lee
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    • I would think that codename trumps first name in most cases, for a very simple reason: codenames are by design unique or near-unique.
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    • What, you don't think 'Elaine' would make a very good tag? :D
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    9 years 1 month ago - 9 years 1 month ago #10 by Sir Lee
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    • Well, I DID once suggest a combat team with Loophole, Delta Spike and Skybolt, with Ms. Claire of Student Services as support. And maybe they could hire Gracie Goodkind's old psychotherapist as team counselor.

    I shouldn't talk... in my first year of college, there were at least six guys sharing my name. Out of a class of 120. That is, 5% of the class had the same name. OK, it was an Engineering school, so there were very few girls... so it was more like 6% of the *males*, which is not that bad. Still, to reach the same proportion, Whateley would have to have something like 18 Elaines, just among the students.

    Yeah, sometimes, it felt like the first strip on this page...
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    9 years 1 month ago #11 by Valentine
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    • To continue the off topicness, whose idea was it to put Stronghold in with Mechano-Man? Steve's?
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    9 years 1 month ago - 9 years 1 month ago #12 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • Sir Lee wrote: Well, I DID once suggest a combat team with Loophole, Delta Spike and Skybolt, with Ms. Claire of Student Services as support. And maybe they could hire Gracie Goodkind's old psychotherapist as team counselor.

    I shouldn't talk... in my first year of college, there were at least six guys sharing my name. Out of a class of 120. That is, 5% of the class had the same name. OK, it was an Engineering school, so there were very few girls... so it was more like 6% of the *males*, which is not that bad. Still, to reach the same proportion, Whateley would have to have something like 18 Elaines, just among the students.

    Yeah, sometimes, it felt like the first strip on this page...

    That's nothing.

    My high school robotics team had about 35 members. One year we had 3 Jonathans, 2 Daniels, 2 Alexes, 2 Jessicas, & 2 Mirandas. We would go on to get a third Daniel, a third Alex, and 2 more Jonathans during my four years on the team (Although we never had more than three Jonathans at a time).

    Among the freshmen at my dorm at college (about 100 in total) there were four Erics, a Rebecca, a Becca, and a Becky, and (my favorite) a Grant Allen Peterson and a Grant Allen Patterson. And at least two Rebeccas in the year before me.
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