Hi! Sorry if I open thread about a discussion that already exists, but I can't post my comment on the othe threads. Well, I think the first thing taht CHYOA admins could improve is giving the main site a direct communication between the writer and the readers. How? I think that a simple and nice way to do that is to allow the writers or all CHYOA users a space to write a journal of themselves or about their stories. That surely will allow a better contact between writers and readers in a more personal way that writing in this forum can't do. A second idea is to add, when you create a story, in the POV options, a fourth option called "Combined POV". I think that possibility to combine different POV will make better the stories, i.e. a ENF story is funnier/naughtier if you could read about how other people see the situation. Finally, a third idea, to make the site more dynamic, is to give the current authors, who update their stories on a regular basis, the stories that have more than 2 years without updating. In that way, you will keep all the stories updated and make the site better, with a great variety regularly updated.
You can write personal messages on the site. Or are you talking about some kind of blog? You could use the Adopt A Story thread to adopt stories which aren't updated for years. If the user is still active you could add to it or ask if you can take over the ownership, or to be added as an editor. Writers could also add to abandoned stories they don't own. If the chapters don't get approved, you could use the Adopt A Story thread or the Thread Approval thread. I have a story I haven't updated for a year now, but I still write for it. This would only force me to add nonsense chapters. You could add the suggestions to the Suggestions sub forum To create a thread, you can also use this link: http://forum.chyoa.com/forums/suggestions.21/create-thread
Hi again gene.sis, thanks for the info on the long unupdated stories (more tan a year, like 7 years, for example), I didn't know that. About the space to wirte, I didn't a blog, just a small space where you can write about your stories, for example, to let everyone who enters in your profile, on what are you currently working on.
I think a transposition of the status system from the forum on the profile page could work. Just something where you could write I'm not dead when you stop updating for more than a day. Or to give updates on stuff and where people could reply. I sometimes talk about things in comments, but unless you follow me or happens to see the comments of this chapter it is lost. The status system on the forum is fine, but seriously I think less than 1% of Chyoa users go here. With the few other proposals made to improve the profile page, such as the possibility to display suggestions for readers or the stories where someone has written but doesn't have any status, this could make the profile page more useful and help build or expand some small communities of writers/readers with shared interests.
That's what I mean, thanks TheDespaxas. Also could work some kind of @-tagging when you get mentioned by other user.
Apparently, yes, I didn't try to publish anything. The problema was that I didn't know that this subforum existed...
Sometimes my eyes are more prone to skip over things that are separated from others. Like, something will be set aside from the rest, for emphasis even, only I skip it because its not grouped in where I might expect or be looking. Not saying you're subject to the same flaw...
I don' know to who are you apologizing for, or for what, but if you're apologizing to me, it's fine, no problem.
Another thing that CHYOA could add is to put your stories in more than just 1 category. In example, my adopted story "Wife Loves Women" is ubicated under the category Cheating Spouses, but it could be also Lesbian or Bisexual (some chapter of the story will be directed on that way) category
There are some suggestions about multiple categories - two category levels "genre" and "theme" - pick a number (3, 5 or 7) categories per story - three category levels "setting", "involved groups of persons" and "fetish"
