I am summarizing feature requests/suggestions/feedback that have been conveyed to me. "Mark all as Unread" button, for rereading Edit and delete comments (some people say they won't write comments because being unable to fix the spelling errors is driving them crazy. Others want to remove questions or no-longer relevant comments). Allow sharing a draft chapter with another user and let them comment (draft comments should not become public when published), for use in editing and collaboration. Allow for the sharing of a page with multiple authors (read and write) but not the public, for collaborative outlining. Follow specific threads and not just whole stories (you can fake this with the bookmark chapter button, but then you have to manually keep bookmarking every new chapter to keep getting notices and the list gets crowded fast). Follow specific authors only in designated stories (so you don't get notices from people you followed for stories you aren't interested in. People are unfollowing authors they like as they are getting too many notifications from things by that author they aren't interested in). "A better approval system". People are complaining their posts are sitting around waiting for the author or a mod sometimes permanently. General sentiment is they would rather things just be rejected than left in limbo forever.
Approval should simply be automated for authors with a certain amount of likes. Not only would that drastically reduce the work for the mods, it would also allow for the new authors to get approved faster.
Oh, no. No no no. Likes are certainly not a good metric to determine a user's responsibility. I can think of several highly regarded authors on the site that would jump at the opportunity to circumvent certain rules. After all, it would be an amazing coincidence if most popular authors happened to find things like incest and non-con perfectly acceptable, but consider specifically underage content, bestiality and excessive violence and nothing else morally repulsive. On top of that, most users, including many popular authors, lack a sufficient level of understanding of the rules to determine whether their story is actually acceptable, even if they make a good faith effort. For instance, X writer with 10,000 likes might attempt to a submit a story about a character who is an adult in every way, except he looks like a child, mistakenly believing that appearance doesn't impact rule 1. In particular, rules 1 and 6 are highly misunderstood. One time, I mentioned the mere existence of rules 4-6 on the Discord, and I recall general suprise from authors who have been here for years (and some of whom will probably read this very post). Understanding what we can and can't have on CHYOA is more a matter of attention to detail and strong reading comprehension (of both the rules and the story) than general experience with the community. Every sentence of the rules is significant; some are quite detailed (rule 1), but you can't make them any shorter without omitting information that would change the acceptability of some stories. That's not to say the rules are rigid - obviously their primary purpose is to keep the community thriving, and an important secondary purpose is thus to prevent potentially illegal content from being hosted on CHYOA, so experience is indeed needed for edge cases. That experience, however, is in reviewing stories, not in writing them.
Duplicate of Allow switching read chapters into unread ones in 'view story map' Duplicate of ability to edit and delete your own comments by kopfkino Duplicate of Add the option to favor only some story lines
