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Thanks, Kenny/Vern. Now I just need to figure out where to find other people's reviews of the chapters I'm reading.

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

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

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

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

I discovered that the logo is the home button by accident. It's a very useful button and should probably be made more obvious so that new users know it exists and will find the site easier to navigate. Perhaps an explicit home button to the right of the logo?

Thanks,
Dirk