Sol, can you tell us how notifications work when new material goes up? Ideally, my connections would be informed regardless of whether I'm posting a new chapter within an existing book, or the first chapter of a new book. One of my reviewers didn't see/get anything when I put up a new book.
Is that doable at present?
Thanks.
Dirk
Hi Sol. When you come up for air, can you please make it so that inline reviews place the cursor inside the pop-up note dialogue box. The constant extra click is annoying. As often as not, I forget to click on the box and just start typing, which Google Chrome interprets as shortcut keys to heaven knows what.
Thanks.
Dirk
Sol, I was wondering how points are calculated in reviews. Some people are under the impression that they need to do both an inline review and a regular review in order to receive maximum credit for a given chapter, so I get both inline and regular reviews for the same piece of work from a single reviewer. From looking at inline reviews as I add inline comments, it seems like I just need to do inline 5 comments to get full points. Can you please clarify.
Thanks.
Dirk
What is a shred thread?
Thank you, Sol.
Sol, I use a Chrome add-on called the Great Suspender that automatically "suspends" background tabs to save memory, which allows me to have many more programs/tabs open than my computer could otherwise handle. When I flip back to the tab, it reloads exactly where I left off, including any data fields that I may have partially filled. I assume it's triggering events of some kind to suspend/resume the tabs.
When it suspends the TNBW tab with an inline review in progress, TNBW saves the review as if I had completed it. I was wondering if TNBW may be handling the event incorrectly or if the inline reviews are just fundamentally incompatible with the add-on.
Do you know what event(s) in Google Chrome could be causing TNBW to auto-save the review?
Thanks.
Dirk
Sol, the inline reviews that people are writing are showing up on the author's home page before the review is finished. I've run into this four times already, either where I was reading what looked like an abandoned review, or someone thought I had done the same.
Based on my experience, others may be encountering this too without realizing it.
Please prioritize this, if you could.
Thanks.
Dirk
Thanks, Kenny/Vern. Now I just need to figure out where to find other people's reviews of the chapters I'm reading. 
Dirk
Does someone know how to read other people's feedback on inline reviews? I gave Seabrass an inline review, he replied, and KHippolite commented on it, but I can't see his comments. I'm not sure if he commented on my review, or added one of his own. Either way, my list of recent reviews shows KHippolite commented, but I can't see it. One of the advantages of the old reviews was to see what other people are saying about the same piece of work.
Thanks.
Dirk
Sol, I've noticed that when I click on new works, all of the links (the book icon, the book name, and the chapter number) take me to the specific chapter, whereas the author name takes me to the author's page. None of these take me to a page where the book/content summary is fully displayed. I think clicking on the icon/book name should take you to a page with the book summary fully displayed and chapter 0/1 as the default chapter. I know it's available by clicking on an extra link, but I really want people (especially new readers) to read that summary before diving into the book. Anything that would make that easier would be good. Again, it also helps new site users come up to speed more quickly.
Not a big deal. Just a nice to have.
Dirk
Sol, some of my readers are skipping right over the little button to expand the author's chapter note. I was wondering if expanding it could be the default. Most of us are used to using it to communicate useful/important information about the chapter. Ideally, it should also be visible when doing the actual reviews, since many people select a chapter to read, then jump immediately to the leave-inline-review button.
Thanks.
Dirk
Sol, I was wondering what the best way is to inform all of my connections of a new book I put up (v3 of the same book, actually)? Is there a way to get emails about new chapters/books from connections? I looked through my recent TNBW emails to see if the new system has been sending me those, but couldn't find any. If not, it would be a useful enhancement.
Thanks.
Dirk
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...
Sol, on the list of minor enhancements, can I suggest you add a real Home button next to Post Your Writing. I'm aware that the label is actually a link, but by default, my eye always goes to the big blue button. It would also make it more intuitive for new users. I use the Home page every time I log in, sometimes more, whereas the Post Your Writing button at most once or twice a week. There's room on the browser page for both; I don't know about tablets & phones.
Thanks.
Dirk
Found a workaround. I made it inactive, then was able to make it active.
Dirk
Sol, I'm getting inconsistent information from the system as to whether or not my new chapter one (in Into the Mind of God v3) is active or not. I followed the usual steps to publish the chapter, but it says the content is inactive. When I looked at the drop down to see if I could make it active, it already was. I'm not sure which is correct.
I'm not sure if it matters, but I had an old chapter 1 in that book that I had made inactive. I then deleted that chapter once I was ready to post the new one.
Thanks.
Dirk
A few people on the site have recommended I keep my chapters to 10 double-spaced pages or less. 10 pages is about 2500 words. It makes for a more pleasant read when you don't have to stop reading a chapter halfway through because you don't have the time or inclination to read something that goes on forwever, like this sentence. :-)
Dirk
Click on the little magnifying glass icon at the top of the screen (next to Post Your Writing button), type in the name to find an author, then click on that to see their books.
Dirk
In case this isn't already on Sol's bazilliong-things-to-do-list, here's a useful-to-have: on inline reviews, when someone replies, it would be helpful if we could see some kind of highlighting (e.g., red instead of blue) on the inline comments where the author has responded to a specific inline comment. I know Janet uses that, but unless I click on all of the inline feedback I left her, I'll miss her individual replies.
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Dirk
Point of order - Janeway was never a captain of the Enterprise, although I thought she was awesome. She currently stars as Red on Orange is the New Black.
As for the away team, Kirk and Spock or Kirk and Bones would be on the away team. If Spock goes, Scotty is in charge ("I canna beam ya back, Captin."). If I remember correctly, Spock wasn't often in command. He usually went where the main story arc went, which means with Kirk. I could see Bones advising Scotty on the bridge, rather than keeping his ars in sickbay, where it belonged. No wonder so many of his patients died ("He's dead, Jim!"). Any old red shirts will do for the away team, since they're going to die anyway.
Ah, the memories.
Dirk
Thanks, Sol.
I spent some points testing out versioning. Although it's a good start, the number and order of my chapters changes between drafts. I don't want to take down my old v2 content since I still want feedback as I write v3 of my book. I'm actually writing act 3 of v2 and act 1 of v3 simultaneously. However, my old chapter 6 could be chapter 8 in the new draft, and so on. For this reason, one can't simply read chapters 1, 2, 3 in the new draft and then pick up the story on chapter 4 of the old one. Currently, the drop down list combines all versions of all chapters in one list.
On the nice-to-have list, versioning should have some way of filtering the list to only see one version at a time so as to avoid confusion between substantially different drafts. Also on the nice-to-have list would be the old reading list functionality (I know you're working on it), but with an automatic increment to the next chapter with the same version number. So, if someone is reading chapter 4, version 3, their reading list increments to chapter 5, version 3. Either that, or some easy way to see in the drop-down list which chapters someone has already read, so they know to pick the next one in sequence.
For now, I've got two books, labelled v2 and v3 in the book title, and am keeping the chapters completely separate. I don't plan to add much to v3 until next year, so I can always switch over to the new site's versioning once I'm comfortable with it.
*** Lastly, will I be able to change version numbers on all my existing chapters without incurring cost in points? My old v2 book has all of the chapters labelled v1, which is how they came across from the old site. I'd like to fix those to have the version numbers match the version number of the book.
Thanks
Dirk
Thank you.
I also have a related question about author replies to my reviews. I discovered accidentally that some authors reply line-by-line to my nits, but I can't really find those unless I click on each of nit to see if there was a specific response. Without seeing this indicated in some way onscreen, it's too tedious for anyone to look for these. Might as well stick to a simple reply like in the old system.
Thanks.
Dirk
Has anyone tried versioning yet? I'm still in the middle of an existing version (v2) of my book, but want to post a new version of chapter one. It's more than simple edits and I'd like to get new feedback.
If I post with a new version number, how will other writers see it represented in the system? I still want people to have access to my existing version of the book, including the old chapter one, otherwise they'll get confused by the changes in the new first chapter. Will they be easily able to distinguish (and compare) the two, or should I simply create a new version of my book in the system (e.g., Into the Mind of God v3).
The latter is easy to do. Not sure about the new approach yet. Let me know if there is a help guide for this particular topic.
Thanks.
Dirk
