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For some reason in the solo story I'm working on, there is no apparent 'save as draft' button for the new chapter I've begun after the initial one. It definitely appeared for the first chapter, and for other subsequent stories I posted. ?
Okay, another Google Chrome issue. I updated Google Chrome to the latest version a couple of days ago, and now the login box on Protag looks like this:
I emptied the cache and nothing changed. This is not a problem; it just looks weird.
Perhaps when people join just to read you might make it an option to make their profile look different? The color red instead of our green? I'm having a hard time getting friends and family to join and read my stuff because they think that it's too public and that they are rude if they don't post. A lot of people might want to subscribe to a writer's community to read for free!
Hi, Nick... The asker of many questions, here... I use Google Chrome as my browser (which basically rocks), but I do notice an oddity with it on Protagonize. When I'm writing a comment on a story or a user profile, if I go back and edit the text in the comment box before I post it, it doesn't update correctly. If I then select all the text, it updates. Not a major problem, just an interesting oddity. But thought you'd like to know. I tried the same thing in Firefox, and editing the comment text works fine.
Again with notifications... When I get a notification that someone has posted a followup to a branch I wrote, the word "followup" is a link inside the notification. However, that link does not take me to the followup. It takes me to the branch I wrote. I think it would be much more useful if the link took me to the actual followup.
I think this is another "default setting" which causes problems.
I have noticed a lot of newbies recently have started stories as "Addventures" and have ended the first branch with two titles chosen off the top of their head. Often, it's two tags, or categories, such as "humour", "poetry", Story", "fun" or whatever, or occasionally they call the two branches "Chapter One" and "Chapter Two", which is obviously not going to work for branches.
Sometimes it's obvious that they don't want anyone to add, anyway, but if they do, these rather odd titles don't exactly encourage people to do so and the story almost always ends up being "orphaned".
If you were to change the default setting for new stories to "Linear", I think this problem could be avoided. I'm sure people would still start Addventures, because they're fun, but I think the majority start off with a Linear Story anyway. If people were to read the "Getting Started" section before they started a story, I don't think the problem would arise, but we all know it's human nature not to "read the instruction booklet" first, so sometimes they need a little help!
Hi, Nick. Any chance of allowing more than one URL in the "Website" box of the user profile? I have both a Facebook link and a Blogspot link I'd like to make available. Many thanks. --Eric
Hi, Nick... I've noticed that in some of my notifications, it says someone replied to my comment on a particular branch, but I haven't yet commented on that branch. Has anyone else mentioned this?
Alright, so I know that Protag is n o t a blogging website, but a lot of us have outbursts of feelings and such in a very... non-literary fashion.
So here's my idea: add another story category, called "Blog / Rant" or somesuch, and, if it is possible, have it set to be un-rateable or something like that. This might be easier than developing a new blogging system, but I’ve never done web development so I can only really make assumptions.
You could also have a flag similar to the “mature” one, so that the contents of a blog post don’t show up on the feeds across the site.
Again, I can only contribute ideas, and have no clue about their feasibility.
I'm new to the site so forgive me if I have this wrong, but it seems like the only way to tell if a story is an addventure or not while browsing is if it says "branches" instead of "chapters" in the description, and when it says "chapters" it doesn't specify if it's a solo story or a collaboration.
I think it would be a useful feature to be able to browse based on single/multiple writer status, so that if they so wished, someone could easily look for a story that they wanted to collaborate on or add branches to, or be able to find a good solo writer.
I'd like to see the ability to filter or block specific users' content or specific categories of content.
This isn't to say that I want this type of content blocked from the site. I don't want to prevent anyone else from reading it. I just don't want to read it myself. For instance, I don't want to read poetry.
I'd like to have a personal user-defined setting which allows me to filter out anything in the poetry category. By the same token, if there's someone out there that I have a personal issue with, I'd like to arrange it so that their content is filtered out--that way I don't have to see when they create a new story...
New rating notifications are a little vaue, the message box shows: "Your postings have been rated 1 time for an average of 3.50" for example, but I don't know which posting. It'd be nice to know exactly which most had actually been rated. At the moment I have to hunt around my posts to see what has a matching rating value and it's very frustrating!
Right, I know you're probably working on way more important and good ideas at the moment, but thought I would pose my suggestion anyway.
As you know, I've been using the website since May now. Then, I started a load of stories, which soon got kinda dusty and forgotten once lots of new fresh stories appeared. I was just wondering if there was any way we could have, say, one special week/month where everyone who wants to, gets to re-run their old stories, if you like, to try and get authors to notice and be able to freshly contribute to, forgotten story beginnings. Maybe each author is allowed one or two stories that they can "flag up" as wanting to be re-run. I don't know how this would work but...yeh, just an idea :)
Thanks for providing us with such a great website by the way. I've got no complaints and it's helped me to remember why I love writing so much!! :D
Heya, I was just reading the story Sleeping Ugly, http://www.protagonize.com/story/slee... which says that it has four chapters. The second chapters is linked to, there's no "Add a chapter" link there. And there are comments on the different branches of the story too.
But when I click on the title of the second chapter to carry on reading I'm taken to the 'write a chapter' page. This seems like a bug.
I want to write a linear sci fi story that becomes an addventure at a certain stage of my choosing.
This will give me a lot of control of the story line, but add the collaborative and sub story elements when appropriate.
Well I got back from Christmas holidays and was told I had two challenges in this Poetry Challenges branch line.
So, I went there,and sure enough, in the author Guidance, my name was listed beside two stories, but now I had to go find them!
I searched through every single branch, from one branch to the next and then back again to go in a different branch direction before finding one of them, and I wrote my story.
Then, when it came time to find the other, I tried again, but couldn't find it.
So I learned that, if there are many branches throughout a story and you're trying to find the specific end of one of these branches, it's very difficult.
One branch will say that there are 74 branches that follow it, but each of those could be split up into different lines that branch out all over the place.
I have NO idea how to make this easier, but there's got to be a way.
Maybe you've already got something in mind.
Or maybe I even overlooked a feature that already exists.
I was just wondering if it would be possible to trim the personal notification system down a bit.
Right now if say, one of my favorite authors writes a follow up to a chapter I've written in a story I've marked as a favorite, I might get 3 or 4 notifications for that one entry. If there could be some sort of check to see if a notification had already been sent before firing off another one (thus only 1 notification per new chapter/comment) that would be the bees knees.
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Nick Bouton (Official Rep)
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on June 28, 2009 22:44
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