The Glowfic Constellation

[Lambda]

It'd also be nice if /unread#unread links redirected/rewrote/? to static links to the correct place. Currently, if I'm on #unread, and I click to the next page, and then I hit the Back button, it goes to the next page, because that's where the oldest unread post now is; I find this counterintuitive.

[Marri]

Fix for the page=1 thing will be up momentarily. Also I am going to be very pleased with myself about it because I had to actually monkey patch the pagination library to make it work.

The unread#unread thing is kind of intentional, because then you can refresh and jump to the latest change; I'm not sure how to keep both cases. I have put in a thing where you can add &ru=1 to the URL to get the redirect behavior, if you want to add it manually, but the unread links themselves won't do it till I think about it more. Maybe another account option (hah).

[Rayketh]

If anyone else has suggestions for the landing page description if Marri still wanted that to be a thing that exists?

Intro thing

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Welcome to the Glowfic Constellation!

This is a repository for collaborative roleplay storytelling from many authors using many characters in many worlds. Some of which repeat and reorganize in different mixtures.

Glowfic began as "Effulgence" and was written by Alicorn and Kappa. The short version of Effulgencethat they put alternate universe versions of Bella from Alicorn's fanfiction Luminosity in a wide variety of settings, mostly fanfictional in nature, then crossed everything over with everything else. Most of Effulgence is still hosted on Dreamwidth and found here


Since then, it has exploded to include more than 20 authors and more than 100 worlds. A common theme is "this world has a problem how can I fix it with magic and/or being awesome?"

A unique? (probably not actually unique but not sure what word fits better) feature of Glowfic is the existence of templates. Template are groups of characters with mostly the same base personality and things of that nature but different magic, upbringing, experience, etc. and may live in different worlds/universes. Sometimes members of a template (called "alts") meet up and shenanigans ensue.

Some threads are sorted into continuities but others should not be taken as canon for anything they do not directly interact with. Ex. there is an Effulgence Harry Potter AU but other universes may have the standard-Earth Harry Potter.

Have fun exploring! If you've got questions about how any of this stuff works (like what the heck is this Milliways place?) come ask on the Aliconutopia forum. We've also got a (kind of bare-bones) wiki and a spreadsheet with some of the templates and worlds plotted out to help people keep track. And if you'd like to get involved with Glowfic, the forum is a great place to start!


Content warnings: Glowfic contains sexual content, rape, torture, parental abuse, horror, depression, self-harm, drug references. There may be other warnings we are missing. Proceed with caution. Basically, if you can think of a way to be mean to characters, we've done it or gleefully intend to.

Links:
Luminosity: http://luminous.elcenia.com/
Effulgence index: http://edgeofyourseat.dreamwidth.org/2121.html
Forum: http://alicorn.elcenia.com/board
Wiki: http://effulgence.wikia.com/wiki/Effulgence_Wiki
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... UzHkWLemQE

Especially suggestions for more content warnings if needed?

[Timepoof]

...Glowfic began as "Effulgence" and was written by Alicorn and Kappa. The short version of Effulgence is that the authors put alternate universe versions of Bella from Alicorn's fanfiction Luminosity in a wide variety of settings, mostly fanfictional, then crossed everything over with everything else. Most of Effulgence is still hosted on Dreamwidth and found here.


Since then, it has exploded to include more than 20 authors and more than 100 worlds. A common theme is "this world has a problem, how can I fix it with magic and/or being awesome?"

A notable feature of Glowfic is the existence of templates. Templates are groups of characters with mostly the same base personality and things of that nature, but with different magic, upbringing, experiences, etc. who may live in different worlds/universes. Sometimes members of a template (called "alts") meet up and shenanigans ensue. ...

Some cleaning up and a word suggestion.

[Marri]

We can also steal from Alicorn's explanation from Tumblr if helpful?

[Marri]

Okay, kids, there is now a CDN in front of the image uploads, it's very exciting. Images should now load much faster / actually cache better. It's in no way clear to me that this is actually cheaper than just requesting from S3; pricing to be re-evaluated at the end of the month.

[pedromvilar]

Request: the add hyperlink interface of the rich text editor is larger than my phone screen and I can't actually move it to see the rest of it, can it be changed somehow?

[rockeye_stonetoe]

I suggest a search feature, if it's relatively easy to implement, prebuilt module or something.

[Kappa]

https://vast-journey-9935.herokuapp.com/posts/search ?

Or you mean like one that searches for words in things?

[rockeye_stonetoe]

I couldn't find that.
And specific words in posts is what I meant yeah so I can remember a quote and type it in and go "okay that's the thread that said that."