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But you could do a separate page for each category, yes? You're saying "but there are way more categories now!" Which is what we are saying. smile Much to find, and no central way to find it. We have to go to each group to find new content, and then realize that there's a way there to search by genre. And then THAT's still something we have to repeat by group to find anything.
No, this is not accurate. There is a central way to find it. If you go to the Read button at the top of the page, it shows all content from all of the groups you belong to. That's what Read - Group Content means. It is all of the content posted to the groups you belong to.
Sol, I understand your rationale for charging points to edit - to prevent gaming of the system - but I think it should be more reasonable. As it stands, and I think Don Chambers voiced this same concern, an author might tend to not edit if it will cost them points. Then the site manuscript would be unchanged, and more reviews would point out the same issues over and over again - not helpful to the author. How about a safe haven, like, say up to a hundred words of addition without accruing additional cost?
I've discussed this in another thread. We'll be removing any adjustment so that it goes back to the way it was before.
Sol, forgive me, but it's still not the same. Wouldn't it be possible to have one page that lists all the new content in the three categories without the book covers, like the old days. Then we could could go to that and more easily look through the pickings. You could have another list with the bookcovers, but I would definitely like a list in the three main categories, condensed, all on one page.
There are no longer just 3 categories. There are novels, books, short stories, poems, scripts, articles, essays, other, and probably more to come. The old system was nice but it wouldn't work with the expanded format. If you really don't like images we can try and create a version without images at some point.
As much as I was bewildered by the ranking system on the old site, I was inspired when I made a top ten list. Shelves are creative but it feels a bit lacking compared to the ranking system. It was motivating seeing my novels progress. Will there be some form of replacment for feedback?
At some point, we might rank the top Shelved books. But the message we generally received from the community is that we should move away from direct rankings. Up to the community on this.
But it's good to have it. With the forums I have to navigate to the group page where I see a list of forums, but not any indication of which have new messages. I need another click and another wait to get to the forum. It used to be one master page, which would tell me where I needed to look. Now it's a click to a page that lists a few forums, but does not let me see or do anything useful with them. (It might as well not be on that page.) Then it's a second click and a second page load to get to that subset of forums.
You realize you can access any of your forums in one click from your homepage? On the right-hand column, under the name of the Group is a link that brings you right to each group forum. You do not need to go to the group first. In essence, your homepage is somewhat similar to the page you are asking for but only lists the last three commented threads.
That's correct. It would be expensive to have a credit group but I just wanted to let people know they could do it.
Free groups are easy to leave and join.
No, I don't get a second-page option. I can see the last names on the list if I scroll down the names instead of using the scroller, but I can't click on them. If I try, it sends me back to the first name on the list.
Can you let me know what type of browser you are using and the version number. On IE, you can find that by clicking on the Help menu option.
If you're not using IE, let me know and I can explain how to find the version.
I checked your account out and didn't have any problems so this is probably a browser issue.
Sol
Hi all,
I wanted to make one piece of group information clear. TheNextBigWriter Premium and TheNextBigWriter Free are not mandatory groups. If you want to drop one or both to make room for other groups, you can.
I saw some confusion about that on a forum thread.
Sol
Sol, when I scroll down my list of connections in order to send a private message, it stops before reaching the bottom of the list.
It should allow you to see all names. Are they on a second page? If you have enough, you might have to click over to a second page to see them all. Is that the problem?
Up at the top of the page is a link called Read. The Read/Groups Content is the same as the Read and Review on the old site. It includes content from all of the Groups you have joined.
I uploaded but didn't publish several chapters of my current wip when this site launched last week--today I went back to publish the first of them and spent twenty minutes navigating through the various portfolio views to try to find them.
Did you search for them in your Portfolio list? You didn't see them in your portfolio? You can search by title.
Two main things are very confusing and/or annoying about the portfolio and publishing....
1. Every time you click on a 'Post Your Writing', it takes you to the list of your projects. I find the one I wish to amend and click it. Instead of taking me into a place where I can choose what I want to do--it automatically takes you to the "update main information" page instead.
Not sure I understand. It takes you to the first page in the Edit process. From there you can edit the basic settings or go to the Cover - Content - or Publish tab. What page would you like to be brought to instead? What is you want to edit the cover or the basic settings? Are you saying you want it to default to the content page?
In terms of those uploaded chapters, once you find them, all you need to do is go to the Publish page and publish them, if they are unpublished, or make them active. Did you have trouble doing this?
I'm having the same problem with messages. Tried on all my devices
Okay, we have added it to the bug list.
We're going to remove the feature that recalculates points. I want to simplify the system, not make it more complex. If the site doesn't mind having people add tons of content and not paying more points to review, I don't have a problem with it.
Are these the books that you added? Did you add any other books?
http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/bookshe … enees-9132
This is a very nice feature.
However, using it seems a bit clunky right now.
On goodreads, you can simply tap the Amazon link to add it, without copying and pasting the ISBN.
Also, there seems to be a glitch - I added books to my recommended shelf, but only five books appear,;when I re-added them, I received a message that they had already been added, but they still don't appear.
Unfortunately, at the moment we don't have access to Amazon's database to pull the data directly from them. As more books are added to the site though, we will build up our own database and this will become easier. If the feature is popular we will spend more time and effort to make it easier.
Will look into the glitch.
Sol
bluetoothwirele left an in-line review to my poem Flight, but I can't see the review. The poem shows 0 in-line reviews but when I go to my "reviews" page I see I have 1in-line review.
I think this is a spam comment. I would just delete it.
You don't even need a link, just one or more options in the user's profile. I think that would be the more confentional way to do it, anyway, and it could be implemented with a CSS control instead of whole new pages.
We'll create an all link version of the user profile for those that don't like images.
That's my question, too, njc. (Do reviewers get extra when we get charged extra?)
Also, Sol, when you've gotten some rest, can you look into the other issues I mentioned above?
Thanks again, both for answering everyone's questions so promptly, and for creating this shiny new site!!
Yes, reviewers get extra. Although if you post something that is 1,000 words, delete 500 words, and then add 250 words, you will still be charged the value of the existing post, not the 1,000 + 250.
The goal of this was to close the loophole that many writers took advantage of where they could post a work of 500 words and be charged the commensurate points and then add 3,000 words to it without costing any additional points. In this scenario, a reviewer is reading 3,500 words but only getting points for 500. Let me know if you prefer the old system. We can consider reverting to it but note that in the old system reviewers got screwed quite a bit.
That's not what happened when I made two minor changes to two of my chapters. In one, I deleted two words. I was charged 0.22 points. In another, I shortened the Chapter Title by two words. For that, I was charged 0.07 points. Not a big deal in the scheme of things, but it appears we are being charged for ANY edit, regardless if it makes the content shorter or longer, or if we even replace a word with another one.
I just tested, adding and removing content. I was charged when I added extra content but was not charged for deleting content. Please point me to the content where you were charged for deleting content.
There should be a notification. There will be one next week.
There is a bug with seeing review responses so that could be a reason you aren't seeing it. We'll have it fixed next week.
* For new listings, when we click on the work, could we please be taken to the most recent chapter? It's really annoying to have to use the drop down list each and every time.
I agree. This is something we will work on. Probably will be a few weeks out.
* Can you please add our home tab to the top right drop down menu (the one right a the top with your name on that's always visible)? That way it's easier for me to return to my home page to look for new message, reviews etc. when I've gone away to things like forums etc.
You know the logo at the top of the page is a link to the homepage? Do you will want it in the drop down?
* When we do in-line reviews, can the cursor automatically go into the feedback box? It's really annoying to have to click with my mouse inside the box before I can start to type, and if you add 30 suggestions/nits to an in-line review, that's a lot of unnecessary clicking.
Will look into that.
* And why when I've replied to a review am I taken back to the first chapter of the novel and not the review page? This means another 5 clicks to get back to my review page to continue on with the rest of them.
Yes, we are working on this. I agree.
Sol
Thanks Dags. I'll try again. When I've tried to look at others' in-line reviews I can't find them. But maybe I'll learn.
That's because there are multiple chapters so active/inactive isn't really relevant right now. We'll be making a change next week which will make it clearer.
Sol
Just send me a Quickee with the names of books to add and delete and we'll take care of it. I maintain this list.
Sol
I clicked everything you mentioned. The notice stays up there. It's been there for a couple of days now. That's why I'm requesting help. I've looked at pretty much all my reviews and replies and see nothing new. So either the replies aren't showing up where they're supposed to, or the notice is out of date.
Okay, I see what you are saying. It sound like a bug. We will take a look at it on Monday.
Sol
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