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Have you seen the rather large thread in the General Board? You have missed a lot.

Literotica's terrible interface and story organisation impact the site massively. It has the usability and erotic story suitability of a Fandom Wikia - comically obtrusive graphics, basic amateurish design, and chapters posted as separate pages, so that a feature as simple as clicking "next...

Sometimes I log onto CHYOA and see a new thread with a title that makes me audibly say, "Oh boy."

Tags won't appear in the "About" section of a draft story. I suppose this is so that tags from draft chapters on a published story aren't visible to users; every chapter within a draft story is, naturally, a draft chapter, so no tags appear. However, the tags are still there, and should persist...

The username came to mind, but I wasn't sure it was them until I read this sentence.

Standard markdown for differentiating a hyperlink [name](https://url.com) from an embedded image .

That's true, and a consequence of starting at a perfect power of two. You can take more uneven ranges (or combinations of range, if you feel like it) to get better pseudorandomness. That said, true pseudorandomness would occasionally not be dependent on every decision.

Like the Boolean toggling example, this doesn't create an even distribution. Initially, x = 0 After 1, x = +1 or -1 After 2, x = +2, 0, 0, or -2 After 3, x = +3, +1, +1, -1, +1, -1, -1, or -3 After 4, x = +4, +2, +2, 0, +2, 0, 0, -2, +2, 0, 0, -2, 0, -2, -2, or -4 in other words, there are...

It's useful to have a unique identifier for each chapter other than meaningless number used by the website's database This isn't true. If 1.2.1 links to 1.1.1.1.2.3.1.1.1, then clicking onto 1.2.1 will automatically take the user to 1.1.1.1.2.3.1.1.1. If you have the relevant privileges, you...

Currently, if you open the story map from a certain chapter, that chapter will be highlighted on the map. However, on very large stories the user will still need to search for that highlighted chapter, so this would be a good UI improvement.

The toggling issue would indeed be fixed if the number of chapters visited may be either odd or even, but you would need to be careful that it's not something the reader would be motivated to visit a certain number of times (e.g. twice, to verify that the content doesn't change on each visit)...

There is a list of example tags here that are (apparently) considered standard. I would also avoid the common mistake of adding tags that don't appear in the story yet, and are only planned. If you don't want to spend the time to completely tag every chapter, you can just tag the first chapter...

Note that existing CHYOA images that were originally hosted on Imgur were backed up on an external site made by Friedman ahead of the purge, so content that was published before May shouldn't be affected. Don't stress about needing to find hosting for old images. (The issue remains for new...

It's been years since I last looked at Caverns and Taverns, but if my memory of its style remains accurate, I think external material like maps and character sheets work well with it (but that's not true of most stories). I would just avoid writing the text in a way that assumes the reader is...

This would be a valuable and fairly simple improvement. For reference, it's already possible to achieve this with two chapters: A - B1 - C - B2 - (link to C) where B1 has the access condition (variable is False) and sets variable to True, B2 has the access condition (variable is True) and...