Sorry everyone!
I sat down and thought long and hard about what Sol said about wanting the premium group to be the central forum, and I'm switching sides. I now agree that fewer groups is better.
Mainly because there aren't enough (regularly) active users to populate them all.
Partially because even with a five-group limit, we're already all over the place. Already there are interesting writing discussions I can't participate in. Raising the limit threatens to increase that number.
oooh, a minimum member count is a spectacular idea, and is how many MMOs control the number of player associations. However the count should probably only apply to public groups. And I think five is a healthy number.
Everyone belongs. Why wall the conversion off within a specific group? Premium has genre categories for all types of content, it can support any type of conversation. This is what I am not understanding. What is the purpose of starting all of these groups just to have a separate forum to talk when a central forum already exists?
The site appears to be urging us to be in groups. Everything I click seems to be telling me I should be in them. I had no idea until now that it wasn't the plan. Right from the main menu I was like "aw, what's my group?" and "where do I fit in the puzzle" and "Which groups will the people I know be in?"
To fix this, I'd recommend a change in the menus:
This would mean that premium and free would have to pretend they aren't groups. Viewing "My groups content" would display everything but those two groups. The main page would, by default, only show content from the one group (premium or free) and not put the word group on them (even though they technically are)
maybe even... "Groups Content" should read "Small discussion groups" or in some way give us a hint that they aren't meant for large collections of users to wall themselves away in.
Interesting. 1.72 times the 25% bonus for being among the first 3 reviewers = 2.15. I bet the site is missing the bonus
MzP: I'm still tracing that problem in order to do a bug report for Sol, however I've isolated the most frequent occurrence... If I visit a group where I'm a moderator and click around in there, when I visit another group, I seem to retain moderator privilege until I next log out.
I have two more display problems. The first is on one of my pages: http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/connect … /njc-10491
The cover image for KHippolite's Mrs. Blue story has the summary displayed beneath it. It appears that the problem is an extra quote in the image display HTML in his summary. I have screen caps of both if you would like them.
Not sure how to fix this one except by a full syntax check of the HTML for display. There's probably a package somewhere to do it; I don't know the tech that well.
I can delete that image now that we can post pictures in our work, but I'll leave it up for now for testing / debugging
Don't waste any points on it. Here's the problem...
I can't stay in this group long term unless they raise the group limit (from 5).
The genres (groups) I write in are:
steampunk (main)
science fiction (secondary)
urban fantasy (tertiary)
romance (quarternary(?))
I would also like to participate in:
YA
Historical fiction
Fantasy
(these groups I would not post in but would like to be active in)
Counting the main group TNBW-classic, that's 8... 3 over the limit.
Factoring in that only me & Bimmy on this site write steampunk, it would be better planning to not fill 20% of my groups with a dead-end option.
Everyone else must face similar choices.
Unless they raise the limit, I don't see how this group can survive
I wish I could, but it doesn't let me change that one option
The site also has the habit of logging me out, and Chrome on the phone cannot verify the site ID, or get a secure connection.
Hmmm yes... I noticed that. I read a piece and when I reached the end, I was kicked out. Good thing I didn't happen to be typing a review or else I'd probably have had to retype it.
We can grandfather some content in. Maybe for the next week. If you want that, let me know which group you want that for.
You can also do the other alternative. The best way to publish select chapters to a different points group is to create another version of the manuscript and only publish those chapters to the points group you want. That way, you only have to pay for those chapters.
I'd like to see what consensus comes in on the matter as other users become acclimatized. I'll bring this up again once more have weighed in on it.
Once you start a group and decide points/no points, it can't be changed. You can delete the group and start over. To delete, go to the group and then Members and delete yourself. Then you can recreate it.
Ya, this is a major problem to posting. My costs to list my existing work in ONE points group is approximately 1300 pts.
You might consider grandfathering existing posts to list in points groups for a brief duration just while everyone gets settled in. OR give us the ability to post only specific chapters to new groups. That way, we can pay for only new content to appear.
What I mean is, my two current WIPs are in chapters 26 and 22.
My cost to post two chapters (27 and 23 alone) are artificially high because I must post 1-26 and 1-22 as well.
Admittedly, I could just create new novels and start at those chapters, posting links back to the originals. But this solution will make me feel hollow inside,
Hmm unexpected problem. Can't add my current projects to this group because it's points-based.
The site's like "It will cost you 500 points" to post here. Ouch!
