1 Topic by Dirk B. (edited by Dirk B. 2023-10-27 08:44:34)

Topic: Minor Enhancement Requests

I'm restoring this thread post-crash. It's intended for minor enhancement requests. Please do not get into long discussions in this thread about a given enhancement since Sol can't wade through endless posts, and other enhancement requests may be overlooked. If a discussion goes past 2-3 posts, please break out a separate thread to continue the discussion.

Thanks
Dirk

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

Sol, can you make this one sticky as well? Somehow it didn't stick. This thread and the maintenance thread are intended to replace the ones we had prior to the crash.

Thanks
Dirk

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

Sol, would it be possible to point new members to the Premium forum post entitled "How to Get the Most Reviews of Your Writing" in the site's documentation for new members? It's a detailed list of tips that should help new members maximize the number of reviews they can receive. Please have a look and let me know if you'd like any changes to it.

Thanks
Dirk

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

Yes, I'll do that to the welcome email and the welcome sequence.

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

Sol,

Would it be possible to get rid of "story" types like essay, article, script, etc.? They don't show on the home page, so new members won't even realize that's the reason they get no reviews. I found an essay from a new member by accident. Those types of works would be better if posted as short stories. Perhaps we need to expand the list of genres to make that work well.

The alternative is to automatically show all of those other types of works in the short story scroll on the home page. I imagine that's more work, but it also seems like a more elegant solution.

Thanks
Dirk

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

Here's something that has bugged me for quite a while. It's probably easy for me to offer it, but much harder to implement.

Every posting I read has the "Write Regular Review" and the "Write In-Line Review" button at the END of the post. Unless you're the type that will always write one or the other, when you finally decide, you have to scroll all the way down the post, click one button of the other, then find your way back to where you were when you decided to post In-Line.

If you always post Regular, then this isn't a problem at all. It only becomes a pain if you write an In-Line, for the reasons stated.

Putting the two buttons in a frame to one side of the post would be a way of doing it. This way you can read the whole thing, then click, or you can find something you want to comment on and click the In-Line button right at that point without having to scroll all the way down and back up.

Once you select In-Line, the post is put into a frame of its own anyway, so why couldn't you do this a little earlier before you have to decide on a review type?

Bill

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Re: Minor Enhancement Requests

A nice right-click menu at the moment you want to start commenting would probably do it as long as the site could take you back to where you were at that moment.

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