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Can't find the old 'Future Wishlist', so I'll write here.

Minor but irritating thing that could be improved:  When I go to publish, I get a 'Warning: Are you sure you want to do this' on the point cost.  'Warning: are you sure you want to do this' I associate with file deletion and such.  Perhaps you could make this particular message a little more like a bank transfer or phone payment: 'Confirm: 3.25 points will be deducted from your account to pay for this transaction' or similar words.  It would be just as effective and less jarring.  I don't know if there are other places where this could apply.

When it comes time to get the email notifications working, I suggest multi-level options on the creation or publishing of work.

1. An alert on an author.

2. An alert on an entire group.

3. An alert on an author IN a group, thus Mrs. Plum, but only for posts in Medieval Fantasy and Magic, but not for postings in Literary Fiction (unless it's also in the other group)

And then a further distinction:

1. Creating/first publishing of a work by the author/group, as above

2. Updates/publishing a chapter in said work

3. Updates/publishing a chapter of a =selected= work

so that I'm notified when Mrs. Plum has a new work, but I have chosen not to get subsequent chapter updates on her work--unless I mark that specific work for chapter updates.  (And I should be able to mark such any work that I can read, even if I'm not following the authors or groups.)

Yeah, a few more columns in the database, but I suspect that many of us writers here will want these capabilities sooner or later.

=Postscript=: Attempting to do this list with bullets instead of numbers didn't work.  I'm going to play with the posting a bit and see if I can get some clues.

Okay.  The BBCode document says that (open-square-bracket)list(close-square-bracket) is the correct syntax, but when I go back in to edit it's been changed to (open-square-bracket)list=*(close-square-bracket).  In any case, the HTML is <ul> <li>...</ul>  ......  with no indication of what the bulleting character is.  I don't have my HTML references with me so I can't check them at the momement.

As an aside, can someone tell me, as the BBCode article does not, how to escape square brackets when I mean to use them to indicate the BBCode itself?
Let me know if you can use the screencap.

Which is why some threads belong to stories.  Ideally, reviews would flow right into the story's thread.  (Or one of the story's threads.)

There's a story, supposedly true, about an architect who designed part of a  campus without paving paths between buildings.  He waited until the students wore paths, then paved where they walked.

This may be related to a problem I had.  I did some investigating into the generated HTML and sent a screencap to Sol.  There's a definite bug--at least one--in the code that turns review text into HMTL.  In my case, the angle brackets were left untranslated and the browser is left to try to interpret their content as an HTML tag.  If you know how to use the 'developer tools' on your brower, you might take a look to see if that's the problem.  If not, more detail would probably help the developers investigate.  Or PM me the work and chapter and I'll take a look.  (Use the connection request for the info; I'll decline the connections afterwards.)

You might add to your report the work/chapter you were reviewing.

For now you might use double parens instead of brokets to quote things.

I don't know if this would be the simplest thing to provide, but maybe the simplest to use would be a way to view the entire sequence of comments, with the in-line comments each as a box with the highlighted text at the top and perhaps an indication of where the snipped occurs (adjacent words if it's less than four or five words, and a percentage for how far down it is).

I've asked my reviewers not to use in-line reviews.

Could we skip the BasicInfo/Cover/Content/Publish dance when we are just updating chapters?  When I go to edit a chapter, I get put into the process to create the whole work.  This might be hard if your data model and matching code aren't just right, so I won't hold my breath.  But when my mind is on the chapter, I don't need to have something demanding that I think about the cover and lose what I'm holding in my mind.

A different kind of enhancement: a 'notebook' that can have multiple 'pages' with titles.  Each page can hold text, images, and most important of all, links, links to forum posts, links to specific chapters of works (these might not be a simple HTML link format, or if they are, they might be formatted for special interpretation), links to things internal and external.

It the 'pages' could further be organized into titled entries, and if an entire entry could be PM'd to another user, it could be especially helpful.  Likewise if a PM received could be routed directly into a notebook entry.

Being able to move entries from page to page would allow the writer to move things not currently needed off into a page for later reference.  Of course, this could be elaborated on indefinitely, but this much would add a nice capability.

Searching on titles and content would flesh the whole thing out.

You've got a lot on your plate now, but I wonder how many other people would find this useful in the long run.

I'm going to be thinking out loud about the groups, business, maybe starting today, maybe not.  I'm afraid I'll get a little Aristotelean in the beginning, laying out ground-floor thoughts on then nature of the problem.

Hmm.  I guess elves don't always get along with animals.  If Horse survives, Kha could have a little character growth.

Look at Sol's reply to me over on (I think) the site bugs thread.  I'll try his instructions a bit later.

But how do I give it the same chapter number?  I want this to -replace- the old chapter.

As an aside, did you get the HTML/CSS that seems to show why italics aren't showing up here?

The Ch 2 revision is up, though you have to go look for it until we find why it's not showing up.  I'll let you know about future work, but right now I have to do some larger-scale work at the same time, both Book 1 and Book 2, and I do have another project.   And reviews to catch up on.

I've done those things.  My update/revision 2 of chapter 2 of The Sorcerer's Progress Book 1 is not appearing anywhere.  I was wondering if it's because I have to change my billing info (unexepected change in c-card info) but since you won't let me see that now I don't think that's it.

Is there a problem if I revise ch2 on the site w/out having done anything with ch1?