Recent content by TheLowKing

...I don't like it. There's soooo much whitespace I'm wearing out my scroll wheel: The entire front page went from 2 screenfulls to 4. Profile posts are 3/4 of the way down the page, where previously it was already partially visible on page load (for me on my screen, mileage may vary). Latest...

I'm not talking about tags in any specific way, but about the basic concept that categories are one-to-one (one story goes into one category) whereas tags are one-to-many (one story can have multiple tags). It's like that scene in WALL-E. If forks go into one box and spoons go into another...

Yep. Tags always beat categories. There are no sharp dividing lines between black and white, only shades of grey.

It's an super trivial issue that I only keep bringing up because it makes my spreadsheet ugly. Thanks for obliging me. :P

I just realized that if you click a tag in the sidebar while you're viewing a story, you go to a page that lists the chapters of this story that feature that tag. Super useful! (That is a redesign feature, right? I haven't overlooked that for the past *checks account age...* *groans* 10 years??)

Friends, I was only making a joke.

I'm very much a solo writer, so take this with a grain of salt... but if I were an original author, and someone like you came in and made that kind of transition, I wouldn't mind in the slightest.

Stealing from the theft machine. I like it.

The 'no view count update at 14:00 UTC' bug came back again, starting on September 15.

As a writer, I never bother with a follow-up question as a writer*. Why? because as a reader, I never even register it. Because the question is not what's interesting. It never is. The answer is. They can hint at things to come, teasing or joking, tickling readers' curiosity. And as an added...

I agree that the standard definition of "chapter" does not quite fit with how it's used on CHYOA by most stories. But "node" is a very generic word with little actual meaning, like "unit", "item" or "object". I have no idea what any of those words mean without context. Whereas "chapter" at least...

I do some of my best writing right after I watched a really good film or episode, or read (part of) a really good book. It leaves me in a vaguely detached headspace that I find really helps with producing the good shit. I'm not sure how useful that is as a standard approach, since I assume you...

Nevermind! It was one of my user scripts that was screwing up the layout. Oops.

In my experience it's usually something that looks like an url.for example like this.

The "Up to X chapters ahead" text is pretty hard to distinguish from the chapter title. A bit more space between the two elements would help with that.