Minor improvements

Discussion in 'Story Feedback' started by Marinus18, Dec 8, 2020.

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  1. Marinus18

    Marinus18 Virgin

    I know this is a list but I didn't see the logic in making them separate posts.

    The chapter dept selection has the options 0-5, 5-25, 25-50 and 50+ but you can only select one at a time. It would be nice if you could select multiple of them at once. I would like to be able to filter out all the ones that go nowhere or are just an idea. Now I have to first go to the 50+, then unselect it, go to the 25-50 and then the 5-25.
    It's a minor thing but it would help make searching easier.

    Another even more minor one that I would like is that the categories don't disappear if you select one but all remain. So that if you want to switch to a different one you don't have to go back to 'any category' to make the list appear again and select the one you want. That you can just click on the one in the list and it will switch to that one instead. The same thing also goes for the chapter dept complaint. It would be nice if all the options didn't compress when you select one and remained on screen so that you can switch to another one easier.

    Also I know I've asked this before but it really is the thing I feel would make the most difference;
    It would be really nice if there were 'prev' and 'next' buttons on the top of each chapter in addition to the bottom. It would make going through chapters much quicker. So when I see a new chapter I often have to find what storyline it belonged to exactly. A lot of stories here are massive with hundreds of chapters and so finding them in the story map isn't that fast. So it's usually faster to just scroll down and go to the previous chapters until I find one I remember. This process would go faster if there were 'prev' and 'next' buttons on the top so that you don't have to scroll down.

    Again I'm aware these are very minor points. But these tiny quality of life improvements never hurt and they add up overtime to make the site much better. Compared to other similar sites like Writing.com and CYOC CYOA does feel a little clunky.
    (I hope that didn't come out wrong. I'm not saying I hate the site or that's it's unusable or anything like that. I'm just saying other similar sites have things to their interface to make them easier to use and CYOA would benefit from adopting those.)
     
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  2. insertnamehere

    insertnamehere Really Really Experienced

    Suggestions are put in separate posts, in the Suggestions subforum, so that each suggestion can be ranked by number of likes. Suggestions with more likes are more likely to be implemented.
    I like this idea. See Change Chapter Depth in advanced search - this would nearly achieve the same thing.