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Hi,

So I'm having a problem with a story that I was reading. I have read it before and started a game a long time ago. Now I want to read it again and kicked start game. However it thows me the
Sorry, I got distracted...
Which page were you looking for?

I suspect that the chapter I was on last time doesn't exist anymore. Is there a way to solve this?because now I can't even view the story at all.
 
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Harst said:
I suspect that the chapter I was on last time doesn't exist anymore.
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Yes.

Harst said:
Is there a way to solve this?because now I can't even view the story at all.
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You can add
Code: 
?game=reset
to the story link to reset the game and start from the beginning. (The story link starts with chyoa.com/story/ and ends with a number. You can get that link from the Favorite Stories menu, though you might need to remove the /map from the end.)

For the story you mentioned, the direct link is
https://chyoa.com/story/The-Invitation.9867?game=reset
 
The Marksman said:
This was so helpful, thanks. Any idea why my links and code keep vanishing from my stories. Sometimes i'm making quick edits (not to the links or the code) and it disappears.
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Glad it helped!

Can you send me the steps you're doing so I can reproduce the problem?
 
Friedman said:
Glad it helped!

Can you send me the steps you're doing so I can reproduce the problem?
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It just happened again. Its on my story 'Rise of Typhons'

https://chyoa.com/chapter/Beyond-darkness,-lies-greatness.1183745

Most recently Chapter 6 approximately 1/5 of the way down, between the lines

She didn't need it, she could feel things turning around. She felt like a rockstar.

TVAw.jpg


Beside the cavernous simulation room, the small office was whizzing with computers, and tech types, along with an un-ambitious career officer 'supervising' in the corner.

There's a space in there that used to contain the Oshi web link but it just completely disappears. It doesn't always happen, but my links seem to disappear randomly, from random chapters. I usually only notice when i'm making edits. I do make a fair number of micro edits, but I don' touch the code.

There's another one between the lines

Hiya uncle Keith!" She 'forgot' that she only had her undies on when she live wave-commed him.

AcXJ.jpg


The poor old guy's eyes nearly bugged out of this head.

Same page. Again, I'd love to know why this is happening. Any help you can provide is gratefully accepted and thank you for all you do here.
 
The Marksman said:
I'd love to know why this is happening.
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The image links are still stored in the chapter. (You might not see it with RTE activated but plain Markdown still shows the link. It is also possible to see HTML img tag with the link in the page source.)

When opening the image link in a new browser window, it says "File not found" with a 404 in the title for both links.
So it seems the image hoster has deleted the images.
 
The Marksman said:
It just happened again. Its on my story 'Rise of Typhons'

https://chyoa.com/chapter/Beyond-darkness,-lies-greatness.1183745

Most recently Chapter 6 approximately 1/5 of the way down, between the lines

She didn't need it, she could feel things turning around. She felt like a rockstar.

TVAw.jpg


Beside the cavernous simulation room, the small office was whizzing with computers, and tech types, along with an un-ambitious career officer 'supervising' in the corner.

There's a space in there that used to contain the Oshi web link but it just completely disappears. It doesn't always happen, but my links seem to disappear randomly, from random chapters. I usually only notice when i'm making edits. I do make a fair number of micro edits, but I don' touch the code.

There's another one between the lines

Hiya uncle Keith!" She 'forgot' that she only had her undies on when she live wave-commed him.

AcXJ.jpg


The poor old guy's eyes nearly bugged out of this head.

Same page. Again, I'd love to know why this is happening. Any help you can provide is gratefully accepted and thank you for all you do here.
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gene.sis said:
The image links are still stored in the chapter. (You might not see it with RTE activated but plain Markdown still shows the link. It is also possible to see HTML img tag with the link in the page source.)

When opening the image link in a new browser window, it says "File not found" with a 404 in the title for both links.
So it seems the image hoster has deleted the images.
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Hey The Marksman,

Thanks for your post!

Did gene.sis's reply help you?

Can I support in any way?
 
Friedman said:
Hey The Marksman,

Thanks for your post!

Did gene.sis's reply help you?

Can I support in any way?
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Truthfully no.

Also, I have a new problem. The text editor consistently removed the second space i put in between sentences. Any idea how to fix that?

But as always, I'm very grateful for any help offered, whether it works or not.

Thank you so much.
 
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The Marksman said:
Also, I have a new problem. The text editor consistently removed the second space i put in between sentences. Any idea how to fix that?
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Do you want to add a second space between the period and the following letter of the new sentence or add another empty line between two paragraphs?

Is there a reason to do that?
 
gene.sis said:
Do you want to add a second space between the period and the following letter of the new sentence or add another empty line between two paragraphs?

Is there a reason to do that?
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A second space between two sentences. Observe.

I like cars. Driving cars is fun.
I like cars. Driving cars is fun.

The former is infinitely superior in every respect. That being said I understand if it simply will not work.
 
The Marksman said:
A second space between two sentences. Observe.

I like cars. Driving cars is fun.
I like cars. Driving cars is fun.

The former is infinitely superior in every respect. That being said I understand if it simply will not work.
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Its a mater of taste. The double space rule isn't used today because we don't use type writers which was the whole reason it was introduced. Each letter was a different size because the hammers were all the same size. So the letter i would create spaces between letters because of its small size while larger letters M and W which are larger would be pressed together. So the word M i l k would look like this when typed. This created spaces in the sentence so double spacing was added to end a sentence to make it more clear. Even though the introduction of the digital font fixed this keyboarding classes still taught this because it was how people who first taught keyboarding learned and so it has stuck in academics but rarely used on the internet.
 
I don't think the double space has been generally taught in schools since the 90s. It certainly opposes modern convention, and you'll probably find that the vast majority of people younger than, say, 30 won't have even heard of the idea. It makes sense that CHYOA would follow the standard set elsewhere digitally.
 
I have an issue where even though I am in game mode on my unpublished story, none of my code works - it chooses default values whenever it can, as if it wasn't in game mode. Does this get fixed when the story is published?
 
MetatronicGerbil said:
I have an issue where even though I am in game mode on my unpublished story, none of my code works - it chooses default values whenever it can, as if it wasn't in game mode. Does this get fixed when the story is published?
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It makes no difference if the chapters/story is published or not.

Have you started Game Mode by pushing the "Start Game" button in the sidebar?

If so, you can send me a message with the link to the story or introduction chapter, so I can take a look.
 
The Marksman said:
What's the difference between the eyeball icon and the two page icon?
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The eye icon sets the variable to visible.

The two squares icon doesn't change the currently set visibility of the variable.
That means that you can make a variable visible in one branch but keep it hidden in another branch.
If the branches merge, the No Change icon keeps the visibility status of the variable, so the reader who chose the first branch still sees the variable while the reader who chose the second branch still doesn't see it.

If the two squares icon is used the first time a variable is introduced, it works the same way as the eye icon.

(This is also described in Conditional Branches 6. Visibility.)
 
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