most frustrating thing about Chyoa

[Nemo of Utopia]

So only em spaces will work for me.

Kinda feels a bit like we're playing Nethack...

 

[gene.sis]

Kinda feels a bit like we're playing Nethack...

Surely not a practical solution. Not even on a keyboard as there seems to be no way to type it with ALT+numbers.

 

[Aman Onfy Mous]

NECRO!

What makes lack of indenting the most frustrating is that it works in the editor, but disappears when you save.

 

[Gambio]

I mean, I feel like I have to go with writers block lol

But if we are talking about site functionality...


I ran into "No spam allowed" a lot more then I care for. And everytime I have no clue what in that message would have counted as spam.

 

[Warden-Yarn15]

I ran into "No spam allowed" a lot more then I care for. And everytime I have no clue what in that message would have counted as spam

I've encountered them when posting pictures on comment sections, trying to ask OPs to give their stories a picture, or a better picture.

From what I've noticed, most URLs that aren't related to CHYOA, is considered spam.

 

[Gambio]

It's not even urls for me, this shit just pops up whenever, and it's not like it shows you the offending part

A particular frustrating experience was when I had to send a huge message piece by piece because there was just no telling what triggered it

 

[gene.sis]

It's not even urls for me, this shit just pops up whenever, and it's not like it shows you the offending part

Could be as simple as missing a space.It has also happened quite a few times in chapters, so the users ended up with a link:

space.it

 

[Aman Onfy Mous]

I mean, I feel like I have to go with writers block lol

But if we are talking about site functionality...


I ran into "No spam allowed" a lot more then I care for. And every time I have no clue what in that message would have counted as spam.

It's usually ellipses ( ... ). It's a real pain in the ass, and I have no idea why the site associates it with spam, but if you delete them, messages magically work again.

 

[Gambio]

Got it. I will keep this in mind next time it happens.

 

[CurvyLinesEverywhere]

In all honesty? This is the least frustrating interface, least rich-get-richer algorithm, and least toxic online community I have ever had the privilege to be a part of.

 

[Zingiber]

what's the most frustrating thing about chyoa?

After a few hundred chapters, it's difficult to search and navigate your own contributions; difficult to search chapters by tag. So it can be hard to review my contributions to stories where I'm not an editor.

 

[CurvyLinesEverywhere]

Oh. You know what? Can I change my answer to "lost work?" I haven't lost my own work yet, but I keep hearing horror stories about people repeatedly losing 2000 words at a time, and just the fact that it could happen makes me anticipate future frustration.

 

[Zingiber]

Oh. You know what? Can I change my answer to "buggy UI?" I haven't lost my work yet, but I keep hearing horror stories about people repeatedly losing 2000 words at a time, and just the fact that it could happen makes me anticipate future frustration.

I'm still overjoyed at "Save as Draft" since the bane of original Chyoo, pre-Chyoa, was that if you submitted a chapter with your login expired, it would just disappear.

Back then I would always compose chapters in an external document.

 

[Zingiber]

After a few hundred chapters, it's difficult to search and navigate your own contributions; difficult to search chapters by tag. So it can be hard to review my contributions to stories where I'm not an editor.

The incremental story map makes it hard for me to locate chapters by text-searching within page for a large story. I'd prefer one that was less interactive and more complete, especially if it could be cached either on server or browser side.

 

[CurvyLinesEverywhere]

The incremental story map makes it hard for me to locate chapters by text-searching within page for a large story. I'd prefer one that was less interactive and more complete, especially if it could be cached either on server or browser side.

To the suggestion box!

 

[Zingiber]

TY, filed! Forgot about the suggestion sub-board.

 

[gene.sis]

To the suggestion box!

It should actually go to the Suggestions Subforum, not to the Site Feedback.

 

[CurvyLinesEverywhere]

Whoops. Thanks for the assist, gene.

(I fixed the link, just in case someone clicks on it in the future.)

 

[Iam_DickMan]

Short chapters are annoying for a couple of reasons, but two in particular chap my ass:

1) I dislike short chapters as part of a long, linear chapter chain with no branches. If you're basically just writing a linear story without many branching points, I prefer fewer, longer chapters.

2) I dislike short chapters which are nothing but branching points; this is more of an issue for some other sites where you can hard-code in options in advance, which then sit there unfulfilled until the end of time.

Which is kind of why I've been working Lois Lane's Night Out the way I have been, although pretty soon I'm going to start winnowing down the options, working on extending the popular paths and ending the unpopular ones.

The forum has a reply button in the comment section why doesn’t the main site?

 

[gene.sis]

why doesn’t the main site?

What do you want to reply to there exactly?