How do I make words italic/bold?

[crimson_hellion]

Stupid questions, I know. But since it's nowhere on the page where I actually write my story I figured it would be a common question. I googled it though and looked at the forums and still couldn't find it.

Help? seems to work only in the forums...

 

[Hypoxia]

Basic HTML tags:
<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>

But maybe half of LIT readers use the Android app, which strips out all HTML, so they won't even see your fancy formatting. IMHO it's best to just use flat formats.

 

[crimson_hellion]

Ah ok, thx for replying so quickly!

Another short question: Is it common that when releasing a series of stories you start a thread somewhere? Or do I just throw it out there and everything plays out in the comment section?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Ah ok, thx for replying so quickly!

Another short question: Is it common that when releasing a series of stories you start a thread somewhere? Or do I just throw it out there and everything plays out in the comment section?

You can let it play out in the comments or you can go to the Story Feedback board Under Mainliterotica Forums) and open a thread there. Readers don't in general go to the forums tho. I usually add a note at the bottom of every story pleading like a weasel for comments and feedback. Doesn't make much difference.

 

[RejectReality]

Yes, I'm going to call you every single time you post this completely unsubstantiated and ridiculous claim that half of all Literotica visitors are using the app to read stories.

There is zero chance that half the people visiting this site are doing so via an app that is not available through the app store or google play, displays a warning when you attempt to download it saying it may harm your device, and won't allow you to install it if you do download it unless you monkey with the default settings of almost every device produced.

It's not half. It's not maybe half. It's not a substantial number. There's no way that's happening under these conditions.

If you want to advocate for plain, unaccented text, that's fine. If you want to use the app as a reason to do so, that's fine. You don't get to artificially inflate the readership statistics for said app to back up your position without getting called on it, though.

Basic HTML tags:
<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<u>underline</u>

But maybe half of LIT readers use the Android app, which strips out all HTML, so they won't even see your fancy formatting. IMHO it's best to just use flat formats.

 

[PuckIt]

Ah ok, thx for replying so quickly!

Another short question: Is it common that when releasing a series of stories you start a thread somewhere? Or do I just throw it out there and everything plays out in the comment section?

Despite having only one submission accepted under this handle and another pending, I've actually been around a little off and on over the years. And I've never really noticed any big benefits to viewing by announcing in the boards.

Hmmm. Maybe a request in the Requested Feedback forum, but not really anywhere else. Then again, I've mostly confined myself either here or the HTCafe. (I made the mistake of wandering into the GB one time and had to disconnect and take about four showers.)

But, I think for the most part the boards and the stories are treated as separate entities. That is, most people who read the stories don't come to the boards and vice versa. (I actually had to walk an HTCafe regular of a decade's standing in how to find the stories, if you can believe that.)

Anyway, I mostly just slap stuff up there and let it sink or swim, although I might mention in passing around here I've done something if it seems relevant to the conversation.

Any road, welcome crimson_hellion and best of luck in your endeavors whichever way they take you.

 

[Hypoxia]

Yes, I'm going to call you every single time you post this completely unsubstantiated and ridiculous claim that half of all Literotica visitors are using the app to read stories.

Ask Manu.

 

[RejectReality]

Ask Manu.

Implying that you have?

 

[PervOtaku]

But maybe half of LIT readers use the Android app, which strips out all HTML, so they won't even see your fancy formatting. IMHO it's best to just use flat formats.

1. Does the author plan to fix that?
2. Seems like just using an android web browser would be better, then.
3. Well, I guess they just miss out, then.

 

[RejectReality]

Implying that you have?

I more or less assumed I'd get nothing but crickets chirping from that. If you received information you're using to make this claim from on high, feel free to speak up.

If I was mistaken and it was in the form of a suggestion, I'm going to have to say no. I'm not going to ask Manu to divulge proprietary traffic data to prove your claim is outrageous when simple common sense does that.

People do not ignore warnings such as those delivered when downloading apps not sanctioned by the app stores. I would dare say that the older crowd the Lit demographic skews toward is even less likely to do so. Even if they do, they then have to put forth the effort to change their default settings, which will undoubtedly deliver yet another warning.

You're making a claim with absolutely zero backing in an attempt to sway people away from using available Lit features, and I will continue to call you on it until such time as you demonstrate you have anything to back up that preposterous "half" claim.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

If I was mistaken and it was in the form of a suggestion, I'm going to have to say no. I'm not going to ask Manu to divulge proprietary traffic data to prove your claim is outrageous when simple common sense does that.

But I will, by reporting the thread and asking the site to reveal exactly that. Knowing what percentage of story fetches done, by browser, isn't what I'd consider vital proprietary data for any site - I'd expect it to roughly match the overall percentages of browser use in general, and so what if it doesn't. And knowing what percentage of readers don't see italics could affect how I write. The site owes writers a page with these statistics, automatically updated every few months.

Addendum: insert my usual rant, viz, any software that runs on any GUI platform and can't render italics is automatically trash. This is not the 1960s, and for that matter I recall a dot matix printer from 1969 that could (badly) simulate italics. With 2 million pixels available in your pocket, software unable to handle a style of formatting invented and popular in the middle ages is a joke.

 

[Manu]

Lit gets a lot of visitors every day, so you should be able to find any needed data by checking overall web usage patterns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Lit visitors mostly speak English, so some of the browsers popular in say China or Pakistan may be under represented on Lit compared to the entire internet. But overall, you can use generic stats to understand most of the browser usage here. For example, Lit member movement from desktop to mobile pretty closely follows overall web patterns.

Hope that helps!

 

[8letters]

Lit gets a lot of visitors every day, so you should be able to find any needed data by checking overall web usage patterns:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Lit visitors mostly speak English, so some of the browsers popular in say China or Pakistan may be under represented on Lit compared to the entire internet. But overall, you can use generic stats to understand most of the browser usage here. For example, Lit member movement from desktop to mobile pretty closely follows overall web patterns.

Hope that helps!

Actually, it didn't. The question we wanted answered was "What percentage of stories are read using the Literotica app?"

 

[sr71plt]

Actually, it didn't. The question we wanted answered was "What percentage of stories are read using the Literotica app?"

Yeah, I scratched my head over that. But since I don't do anything with apps, I decided not to question it.

 

[RejectReality]

Well, it does fly right in the face of that 50% number for certain. Mobile has only just achieved a greater than 50% share of traffic over desktops according to the data presented here as representative, and only mobile devices can use the app.

There's no way in hell that all of that mobile traffic is coming in through the app, therefore the 50% claim is, as I said, an unfounded exaggeration.

When you throw in the common sense factors I outlined earlier, it's easy enough to see how much that would chew into that 50%.

There's also large amounts of data available saying that most downloaded apps are opened once, and then never again.

So you cut the total traffic almost in half, slash that for the people who won't jump through the hoops to install the app, slash that for the people who do end up jumping through the hoops but statistically are unlikely to utilize the app much afterwards, and what you end up with...

No way of guessing what the final percentage is, but it's not even close to half, and that's the claim I have a problem with being constantly repeated as if it's fact, when it's hogwash.

When you look to the future, simple website display apps are on their way to the graveyard. Google has mandated responsive sites capable of displaying properly on any device in order to avoid dings on your search engine ranking. Literotica's compliance with that standard is underway.

Adult apps, which cannot be offered in the sanctioned app stores, are even less likely to see increased development in the future.