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[MelissaBaby]

Oh, my post has nothing to do with Literotica being or not being tailored to my needs. I just can't not reply to what I see as another round of BS from our reclusive website owners. And even the timing is convenient.

You should ask for your money back.

 

[alohadave]

I never said I couldn't stand the way Literotica functions. I sometimes support its actions and sometimes I criticize. I can be harsh in my criticism occasionally, but that can hardly offset all the over-the-top praise that some members offer.

I have yet to see anything positive from you about how the site is run. Yet when called out, you always say how balanced you are.

By the way, you can take your own advice when it comes to you and my criticism. If you don't like it, there's this little button named Ignore. Feel free to use it.

You've been on it for a long time, so I don't need to see your crap most of the time.

Feel free to follow your own advice. Nothing will be lost if you ignore my posts.

 

[dirk2024]

The third is the Expanded Card, which will look like this:


The Word Count will appear on the Expanded Card (the last option) once these are rolled out sitewide. Because Story Games don't contain a Word Count in their stats, you can't see it now - so Manu posted a prototype of how it will look for text stories.

These are on the site now in the Story Games section. They are being tested in the Story Games section, as Manu explained, because "[t]esting on Story Games allows us to try new features on a smaller audience instead of risking breaking things for millions of daily Lit Readers."

If you want to help us beta-test the new Story Cards, please follow Manu's instructions here. Once these are tested and bug-fixed, anyone who wants to see the Word Count in a story can choose the Expanded Cards.

Here is one vote for the expanded card. I really like seeing the tags upfront. I usually click on a story, then go to the last page to read the tags before I decide to actually read the story. It would be helpful to see them up front.

Thanks!

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I have yet to see anything positive from you about how the site is run.

Look better. I've openly supported some of Lit's policies. I've frequently voiced my firm support for their stance on AI, for example, even when so many people complained about it on the forum. I've also criticized the lack of guidelines for the authors whose stories get rejected, but still, unlike some other websites like AO3 and SOL, I think Lit is doing the right thing in this case.

By the way, I am not bothered by your posts, and my ignore list has always been empty, and it will stay like that. It's you who has more than once told me to leave the site if I don't like it here. Smells of annoyance to me, so I suggested using the ignore function.

 

[iwatchus]

Look better. I've openly supported some of Lit's policies. I've frequently voiced my firm support for their stance on AI, for example, even when so many people complained about it on the forum. I've also criticized the lack of guidelines for the authors whose stories get rejected, but still, unlike some other websites like AO3 and SOL, I think Lit is doing the right thing in this case.

By the way, I am not bothered by your posts, and my ignore list has always been empty, and it will stay like that. It's you who has more than once told me to leave the site if I don't like it here. Smells of annoyance to me, so I suggested using the ignore function.

You have every right to grouse. Everyone of us has griped more than once about things on this site. But your choice to jump on Laurel when she was engaging with us was monumentally stupid.

As Shelby pointed out, you have no idea what fires Manu is fighting on a daily basis. None of us do.

Having Laurel more engaged here is our best path to seeing things happen that helps us as authors. But you would apparently rather piss on a helping hand that accept the help. All in dedication to … your own ego?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Here is one vote for the expanded card. I really like seeing the tags upfront. I usually click on a story, then go to the last page to read the tags before I decide to actually read the story. It would be helpful to see them up front.

Thanks!

The tags are at the top of each story, on the front page. Click on the label icon, top left.

 

[dirk2024]

The tags are at the top of each story, on the front page. Click on the label icon, top left.

Ah, thank you!

 

[iwatchus]

The tags are at the top of each story, on the front page. Click on the label icon, top left.

But like the current word count, that is only visible after you have opened the story. I want to see them when I am scanning the list of stories, choosing what to read

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

That's hard to believe, as this is quite obviously a frontend issue. The numbers we want story-cards to display are already displayed on other pages. They are displayed statically, the same as other stats, as they are only refreshed from the database at certain periods during the day. So this is only about the way the story card is shown in HTML - whether it displays properly, or whether it would break the page view in some way.

I suggest to you too to first take your own advice before you criticize my supposed ignorance, veteran.

Except it’s pretty obvious that different parts of the site refresh at different times. This is not a single source of truth environment. Would that it were.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The tags are at the top of each story, on the front page. Click on the label icon, top left.

You still have to open the story (and thus give it a view) before you can see them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

But like the current word count, that is only visible after you have opened the story. I want to see them when I am scanning the list of stories, choosing what to read

I know that, but the chap who made the comment didn't.

I never want to see tags, never use them as reader - so a click in is fine with me. I'd never want a page that showed them by default.

 

[ElectricBlue]

You still have to open the story (and thus give it a view) before you can see them.

I get the sense that most people commenting about tags use them to identify stories they don't want to read, not stories they do want to read.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I get the sense that most people commenting about tags use them to identify stories they don't want to read, not stories they do want to read.

The solution might be to add filtering to the New Stories page, so you can (for example) eliminate all stories with the tag "anal" if you are turned off by anal intercourse. You could even let people who create accounts save their default filters, thus motivating people to have accounts. Hey, @Laurel, what do you think?

 

[ElectricBlue]

The solution might be to add filtering to the New Stories page, so you can (for example) eliminate all stories with the tag "anal" if you are turned off by anal intercourse. You could even let people who create accounts save their default filters, thus motivating people to have accounts. Hey, @Laurel, what do you think?

There's no "solution" needed, because is there really a problem? I don't think so, other than people not wanting to click on a little button.

 

[alohadave]

I get the sense that most people commenting about tags use them to identify stories they don't want to read, not stories they do want to read.

Yeah, that's how I use them on the new list, or on an author's story list. There are things I don't want to read and there are a lot of stories to filter through. Tags are an easy way to help with that filtering.

 

[Bamagan]

I get the sense that most people commenting about tags use them to identify stories they don't want to read, not stories they do want to read.

I use them for both purposes. For some of the more grab-bag categories like Fetish they can be quite helpful. If there hasn't been anything posted recently that intrigues me I will sometimes do a tag search for things I might have missed, either because they're in a category I don't check regularly or they got buried too quickly by newer stuff. Or sometimes I am in a very particular mood and have to seek out content that fits.
A story that has no tags is one I usually back out of immediately.

 

[TheLobster]

You should ask for your money back.

And I’m sure he’d receive a handwritten check with the exact amount of ad revenue his stories have generated for the site.

 

[iwatchus]

I never want to see tags, never use them as reader - so a click in is fine with me. I'd never want a page that showed them by default.

This is one of the things I like about their idea of having user selectable panels. I (and many others I think) would use tags heavily to choose well matched stories if we could, easily. But others don't want to give up the space, visually or mentally, to the tags.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

There's no "solution" needed, because is there really a problem? I don't think so, other than people not wanting to click on a little button.

Software developer thinking: anything that makes the user experience less pleasant or more difficult is a problem.

--Rocco