favorite authors list

[rwsteward]

simple question.

If you're on someones favorite authors list and you post a new story. Do they get a notification that you posted a story?

 

[sr71plt]

No they don't.

 

[PacoFear]

simple question.

If you're on someones favorite authors list and you post a new story. Do they get a notification that you posted a story?

On a related note - if you're ambitious, you might try keeping a running list of the folks who email you feedback. That'd make a little distribution list for later when you post something new. If I could start this all over again, I'd do it. Kinda too late now.

 

[sr71plt]

If you post a story a week, though, that may be taken as an irritant.

 

[PennLady]

If you post a story a week, though, that may be taken as an irritant.

It might, but I have a list such as Paco described, and I don't post that often. Even if I did, I'd probably keep any emails to every other week. And I don't think once a week is too often for a notice, although everyone has different tolerances for that.

 

[Darkniciad]

My mailing list is set up from my website, and is opt-in + can be narrowed down to the level of specific ongoing stories and modified instantly at any time by the subscribers. Took me bloody forever to program and bug test, but well worth it in the end. I can modify the finished code in a few minutes to change the listing of options as well.

Only the people who sign up get the alerts, and only the alerts they want.

If you can't/don't feel like doing the coding ( and have a PHP enabled website ) there are a couple of good free mailing list programs that do all the heavy lifting for you, such as PHPList.

I have to agree that even if you express interest in knowing when new stories come out, high productivity can produce annoying amounts of email. Even worse when you only commented on a story, and didn't actually ask for alerts. That's why I went the route I did.

 

[Series 6]

On a somewhat related note, I wish that I could see all the people who Favorited a story. I have a couple of stories that several people marked as a "favorite," but I can only see the last two who tagged it.

 

[Darkniciad]

On a somewhat related note, I wish that I could see all the people who Favorited a story. I have a couple of stories that several people marked as a "favorite," but I can only see the last two who tagged it.

Hover your mouse over the "and xxx other people" and it will display the rest of the names ( within limits )

If the list is too long to display in the mouseover notification, use your browser's "view source" option, and then scroll down to that section of the page. The full list of who has favorited the story is there.

I'm half tempted to draw up an "undocumented features" list for Lit for things like this. Manu has added a lot of things recently that were never announced, and aren't readily visible.

 

[Series 6]

Thanks Dark, and great profile picture. MST3K was great. I have tickets to see Cinematic Titanic in December.

 

[nakdsub]

Where is this?

I looked all over, I couldn't find anywhere that listed who favorited me in either story or as an author. Where?

 

[sr71plt]

I looked all over, I couldn't find anywhere that listed who favorited me in either story or as an author. Where?

Go to the last page of one of your stories (where the vote stars are). In my browser version, what I can do is go to the "View" menu and click on "Source" and the gobblygook of the programing language for that page will show up in a window. I can scroll down to where there's a subhead "Favorite Story" and inside that gobblygook is listed all of the account names of those who favorited the story.