Recent content by dirtytyke

Well, anything that is unnecessary shouldn't be shown. It'd just be cluttering the experience. Kind of why I like to disable signatures and hate excess white space.

Really? That sounds like a costly way of doing it. So, every chapter view requires a lookup of every single chapter in the story to see if they are a child? I'd have assumed there'd be a list of child ID's for each chapter. Obviously that'd make the chapter creation process more costly, but does...

Ah, I didn't see this in the 'All suggestions so far' thread. Liked. I forget that other people could be working on a story... It seems like gamemode stories could be very difficult to manage correctly with multiple contributors.

True. Maybe it should only show up if the author is different from the current chapter?

Ah, you're right, I did make a mistake with the ifelse syntax and it does work as you mentioned. I think your additions to the guide are adequate. I'd imagine anyone who can work with the conditional variables would be able to figure out the workaround easily enough so I don't think it's...

Yea, I saw after I'd mentioned that, that someone else mentioned Friedman stated it would require a major overhaul. I am curious why that's the case. Without knowing anything about how chyoa is set up, beyond the fact that every chapter possess an ID, it does seem like it'd be a simple change...

Coming back again a day later... I also hate it when a lazy author adds a new chapter to someones story and is inconsistent with the use of present/past tense or choice of first/second/third person. This should be a ban-able offence! At the very least, in moderated stories they shouldn't be...

I kind of like this, but think it should preferably be in grey or smaller font or something unobtrusive so it's there if you want it but easily discernible from the chapter titles. Also, I want to like RejectTed's contribution to this thread one hundred times over.

Copy/paste, or even being able to fully rearrange chapters would be awesome. Sometimes I've wanted to add a chapter within an already existing thread but there's no real way to do it. Imagine if you could simply enable an advanced edit mode on the story map and drag copy/move chapters...

Another disadvantage of publishing them all at once is you lose the increased exposure from being in 'recently updated stories' for a longer period of time than if you publish one every few hours/day. However, I do like the possibility of having the option.

That makes for amusing reading. You've taken each point and seem to have analysed it out of context. When mentioning the <=/boolean comparisons my point was simply that your statement "Undefined doesn't mean false" is kind of inconsistently implemented. In one place (intext) you can handle it...

I've not seen anyone mention this in the thread so far, but I think I've mentioned it before in another. I really hate a story that starts with a complete anatomical description of the main characters. I will simply instantly stop reading at that point. This is a more readable example (the...

Although I'm sure it might make me feel bad, I'd love criticism on my story. At least then there'd be some feedback beyond the occasional like/bookmark blitz. If you're still around Bam, try to take criticism as constructive even when it may not appear to be. Unless the comment is simply...

Yes, but we don't have the ability to check for Undefined. Also, using <,>,<=,>= with booleans doesn't make sense either, but the system is implemented to evaluate them as false. What's the difference with Undefined? If we can have one nonsense, can't we have both? :) Within the chapter text...

I'd really like it if comparing an undefined boolean with False would return True (and thus allow a chapter to be shown) if the variable has not been created. Without this, having any form of inventory/purchase system means that the inventory needs to be set up/declared at the start of the...