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Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated. Doing IL reviews is wonderful but if we didn't have the limit we could expand on why we are making a suggestion instead of having to use the reply box at the end for such purposes. It sort of defeats the purpose of having In line comments if we have to rely on the larger box to clarify/expand on certain parts of of the IL review.
Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated. Doing IL reviews is wonderful but if we didn't have the limit we could expand on why we are making a suggestion instead of having to use the reply box at the end for such purposes. It sort of defeats the purpose of having In line comments if we have to rely on the larger box to clarify/expand on certain parts of of the IL review.
I concur
Also bumping the request to make keeping track of where you left off on novel reviews as easier process. It was tough on the old site, but even tougher on this one. Perhaps a color or highlight of anything you've reviewed in the chapter list drop down? Or leaving the check mark at the last spot you reviewed?
What's the current best way to do this? I usually go to main menu, click reviews, look at inline posted (the only kind I do), scroll through to check where I left off on all my reviews (who and what chapter), click on the author's name, find their book, then go to the chapters and select from the dropdown, then click to leave an inline review. There has to be a better way than what I'm doing...
Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated.
I don't think we can remove it completely because of spam comments, but we can certainly increase it considerably. Will do that.
Thanks Sol, couldn't ask for more than that!
Thanks Sol, couldn't ask for more than that!
YES, YES, YES. Take care. Vern
Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated.
I don't think we can remove it completely because of spam comments, but we can certainly increase it considerably. Will do that.
That's good enough for me
Another wishlist item to add.
This one deals with navigation. It's cumbersome that every I read and respond to a review, and submit my response, the navigation doesn't return me to the previous screen. Instead of going back to the review listings page that I navigated FROM, submit takes you elsewhere (the chapter itself). Then, to continue working on replying to reviews, you have to re-navigate back to the review listings page to continue. This happens with a lot of functions and makes navigation a real mess.
Gotta go along with Linda. There are loads of places where, once you comment or whatever, you get whisked away to somewhere you don't want to be instead of going right back from whence you came. Very anoying.
Tom
I believe you have a word count available for each work or chapter. Would it be too much to display those somewhere, at least in the author's view, if not elsewhere?
Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated.
I don't think we can remove it completely because of spam comments, but we can certainly increase it considerably. Will do that.
Any idea on when this will be? 300 isn't at all sufficient.
SolN wrote:Somewhere along the way, if you would consider removing the word count limit in the In-Line review boxes, it would be much appreciated.
I don't think we can remove it completely because of spam comments, but we can certainly increase it considerably. Will do that.
Any idea on when this will be? 300 isn't at all sufficient.
It's certainly not a fix (still waiting on that like you) but I've found I can click again on the same section and continue my remarks in a new box. At least it's a way around the limit until it's expanded - not ideal but better than nothing while waiting. Take care. Vern
It's certainly not a fix (still waiting on that like you) but I've found I can click again on the same section and continue my remarks in a new box. At least it's a way around the limit until it's expanded - not ideal but better than nothing while waiting. Take care. Vern
We'll have this fixed later today or tomorrow at the latest. We are also modifying the formatting of the comment a bit more so that you can leave comments in paragraphs. Right now, we will expand the comment size to 1,000 words. Is that enough? Very much bigger and it could break the design in some cases.
It's certainly not a fix (still waiting on that like you) but I've found I can click again on the same section and continue my remarks in a new box. At least it's a way around the limit until it's expanded - not ideal but better than nothing while waiting. Take care. Vern
We'll have this fixed later today or tomorrow at the latest. We are also modifying the formatting of the comment a bit more so that you can leave comments in paragraphs. Right now, we will expand the comment size to 1,000 words. Is that enough? Very much bigger and it could break the design in some cases.
I'm assuming you mean 1,000 characters. That seems perfect to me.
1000 words should be enough for a comment pertaining a single line in the chapter. If anybody writes 10 comments 1000 words long each, they would end with a comments way longer than the chapter itself!
Kiss,
Gacela.
Two suggestions: In the My Groups Content page, allow multiple selections from the Genre menu; and replace the heading 'Type' with 'Form', which better describes the distinction in question.
I'm assuming you mean 1,000 characters. That seems perfect to me.
Yes, sorry, it's actually characters.
If that's not enough, then go to the comment box and continue. The one thing that I think would be so much easier is if the comments could be seen side by side with the text rather than having to click on the highlighted area--Like you can do when you track changes in Word. Even when reading the remarks to your reviews would be easier without having to click each place to see if the author even made a comment. Ok, I know we're getting silly with all our wants and wishes, but maybe Santa can deliver?????
After rlvs posted his farewell, I thought I would add a few items to the wishlist that might simplify the site a little.
I only just realized that there is now a small home button at the top of the screen. If space permits, I really think that should be a full-sized button that says "Home" on it. It should be to the left of Post Your Writing, since the home page is probably the most important page on the site. You can shrink the Post Your Writing button to read Post Writing, or change it into a small button with just the pencil icon on it. The latter (my preference) would leave room for other icons/buttons going forward.
Another suggestion is that the four tabs for reviews be made identical in layout. Right now, regular reviews posted and received have almost the same layout, except a couple of the columns are in a different order. Also, there is a major difference in layout between regular vs. inline reviews. I think they should be made identical across all four tabs.
Last, when we look at posted chapters, can we get the Content Summary and the Chapter Notes automatically expanded at the top of the page? I think expanding the chapter notes is especially important because my reviewers are getting confused as I make small changes to characters and other content from one chapter to the next. They're not clicking on the button to read the content summary or the chapter notes. Regardless of whether you decide to expand the content summary and/or chapter notes, the same information should be available when someone goes to leave a review. I often click directly on the Leave Inline Review button, then have to go back so I can read the content summary and/or chapter notes, since they're not available on the inline review page.
That's it for now. Thanks for the continued hard work.
Dirk
Since there are probably users who prefer both major review tab layouts (the list layout of the regular reviews tab vs the detailed layout of the inline reviews tab), there should probably be an option to choose between them. Preferably a checkbox that remembers the last setting. I would probably use the list layout most, but I'm sure there are some who would use the other, or both.
Thanks.
Dirk
Sol, thanks for automatically expanding Chapter Notes and making them available on the inline review page. Both very helpful.
Regards,
Dirk
I'm going to put this in under 'wishlist' rather than bugs because an argument can be made for the behavior described herein. I don't think it's a good one, but it's at least plausible.
I have been moving some content around between chapters. I have multiple story threads, and changes in the weight given to one episode or another are driving the reordering. In the process, I exchanged the places of a couple of chapters.
There are also inactive previous versions of a couple of chapters. I stress that they are inactive. They had the same numbers as a couple of the active chapters. The renumbering caused first one of them, and then the other, to be given the number of an active chapter. That change the number of another active chapter, triggering a chain reaction. I don't know if I've gotten it straightened out, since my laptop battery ran out when a five-minute task took over an hour. Both the time and the battery problems were worsened by the multiple page loads I needed to get back where I was after changes were made, navigating through the edit chain from the top each time. I also found the drop-down bouncing to different spots on the page. (Sorry, I didn't think to capture screenshots. My bad on that.)
I think you have a deep problem stemming from your model of version control (snapshot vs. structure, and how to resolve the tensions that result) so I won't ask for changes there.
Instead, my request seems simple: exclude inactive chapters from the renumbering arena, so they cannot trigger chain reactions of this sort. ( It might not be simple and a different fix might be easier. But I'm trying.)
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