The Glowfic Constellation

[Tamien]

I would not feel pressured to like things, but *would* appreciate a new-facebook-reaction-suite sort of "like" button, where I could indicate the particular *way* I appreciate a post. I feel like this would allow me to leave pleasantly specific feedback, without necessitating comments where I would probably just say more-or-less one of the following:

gleeeeeee (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
WHYYY
wtf???
d'awwww
OTP <3
*suspense*
;____; *sobs*
I AM OVERCOME WITH FEELS

If a simple-like-plus-comment system gets implemented, that will increase the threshold at which I will respond to something.

Oh, and if the reactions/comments are by *thread* rather than by *post*, I am not particularly likely to use the thing at all, but a simple like is better than the emotion suite.

[pedromvilar]

If I were to flesh out my personal preferences...

I'm meh on the likes thing, and would probably prefer a comments section for the thread as a whole, possibly with an easy way to reference a specific post in a comment like a quote or something. I'd hope this would encourage some more discussion/squee/attention than the current catch-all squee and sandbox discussions threads on this forum have. I don't think this would pose a centralisation problem because stuff like new worlds, talking to characters, global announcements, random discussion, etc would probably still be here.

On the other hand, I think I'm not the only person who decided to start reading a specific sandbox (or maybe change reading priorities) because of a squee comment or some such, and keeping comments limited to the thread itself might cause some thread insularity maybe. So I dunno. I really mostly want attention, I like it when people react to stuff I write or co-write, it gives me warm fuzzies.

[Marri]

Completed posts are now hidden from Tags Owed, I did a couple things to try and make viewing a post slightly faster, and Throne3d fixed it so breadcrumbs should now display on mobile.

Grouping icons by Gallery is now on the To Do list.

Quick nomenclature thing before my below response: I have not called anything a Thread because Ruby already has code called Threads and it gets very confused very quickly if you do that. You can write a Post and then responses are called Replies. This annoys me but not enough to actually fight Ruby on the Thread thing.

Reactions and comments are an interesting thought! They are a big enough project that they will go on the v2 list for now, so people have time to discuss what they'd like to see. Speaking technically, a completely anonymous like counter per post (or maaaybe per reply) would be pretty quick; anything involving usernames or de-duplication or multiple reactions is more complex / would involve more database rows.

[Kappa]

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[DanielH]

Then can we call a line of a Post and Replies an Arc (as in story arc or plot arc)? That seems easier than fighting over the word Thread.

[Unbitwise]

Feature request as a reader: links between posts along the lines of "Next/Previous Chapter". If they could be autogenerated from some grouping of continuity so the authors don't have to create them on every post, even better.

I just had a finished thread sitting in my check-for-updates set because I hadn't cross referenced with announcements of new threads. If creating a new post automatically resulted in such a link, that wouldn't happen.

[Kappa]

Yeah, the chapter links thing would be super cool. Autoindexing in general would be super cool. How much of that is already provided for?

[Marri]

<3 <3 <3 marri is so good

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Then can we call a line of a Post and Replies an Arc (as in story arc or plot arc)? That seems easier than fighting over the word Thread.

If people want to use thread to encompass "post + all its replies" that's totally fine, but I saw at least one comment that was making a distinction between thread and post and it wasn't clear to me which referred to what, especially since thread is also kind of used for branching things like Cam Summoning to refer to each unique summoning? So I wanted my comment to be clear about what I meant when I said each thing.

Feature request as a reader: links between posts along the lines of "Next/Previous Chapter". If they could be autogenerated from some grouping of continuity so the authors don't have to create them on every post, even better

Yeah, the chapter links thing would be super cool. Autoindexing in general would be super cool. How much of that is already provided for?

There's some code skeleton for that I built for the Effulgence scraper. Continuities can have Sections, and a post can be assigned a Section, and both of those accept a number for "what order should these be in". (And if a new post was created within a section, auto-incrementing is pretty easy.) And all of that totally exists already and if set in the DB should display properly. That said! I still have to create a UI for people to make said sections and assign posts and etc etc; the scraper does it automagically but that does not help writers xD

[Lambda]

I feel like this is turning into something closer to Reddit than to Dreamwidth.

[Marri]

I feel like this is turning into something closer to Reddit than to Dreamwidth.

It's been turning slowly into AO3 in my head; I don't use Reddit enough to say.