Two simple recommended improvements

[sipainting]

First, the site is amazing, and works amazingly well. Bravo to the team!!

1. Add an "Are You Sure" verification when choosing to publish the story the first time.

>> Twice I went to edit an unpublished story, then accidentally published it.
>> Once this caused me to actually copy all of the text from the story to a notepad and then delete it, because it was not ready to be published.

2. Conditions for numbers should have a "not-equal" option.

[ < ][ > ][ = ][ ≠ ]

>> Because there is no "OR" function for conditions, if you need to have a not-equal you need to have two chapters (one with [ < ] and one with [ > ] ) if you need to show chapters where a score is not equal to another.

>> I was able to solve it in my "Trapped in a Robotic House" story by just using [ < ] and letting chapters go away as the reader progressed through the sequence. (see https://chyoa.com/chapter/Yes,-plea...be-pretty-to-make-men-want-to-fuck-me.1205112 for an example) It was fine, but the gameplay would have been more challenging if the chapters stayed and clicking on them would have a negative consequence.

Thank you!
SI-PAINTING

 

[MetatronicGerbil]

An operator for NOT would be amazing, and simplify a lot of the pasta code I've had to write up.

 

[gene.sis]

Please post feature suggestions in the Suggestions subforum. (One suggestion per thread.)
There, you can vote for suggestions by liking the first post of a suggestion.

1. Add an "Are You Sure" verification when choosing to publish the story the first time.

Might be useful.

>> Once this caused me to actually copy all of the text from the story to a notepad and then delete it, because it was not ready to be published.

As a workaround, it is possible to delete the story and then restore it from the Recently Deleted list within 7 days. By restoring it, the content will be back in draft mode.
Another way is to mark the story in a way that the reviewing moderator knows that you don't want your story to be published, so they would decline it instead.

2. Conditions for numbers should have a "not-equal" option.

The option != seems rather narrow in scope as it might often be necessary to exclude more than a single value.

simplify a lot of the pasta code I've had to write up.

It should not be necessary to copy content but rather add additional link chapters.

 

[sipainting]

Thanks! I'll move these to Suggestions! Sorry for this newbie thread. Feel free to delete.