Did anyone else notice how the New! List gets rearranged during the day as new stories are added?
I mean:
On days with many stories getting posted, the New! list is updated several times a day. But! When new stories are added to the list during the day, the newest arent all placed on top. Instead they are interspersed within the stories that has already been on the list for hours.
Does anybody know how that works? (and maybe why?)
To me it seems a bit silly. Checking the New! list is one way to keep up and see if one of your favorite authors has a new thing up. But if you check New! list for the present day, you will not see a complete list of all stories for that day. You will see a partial list. Worse, yet, if you come back later in the day -- to check if more has been added -- you now have to go through the whole list again, including all the titles you noticed earlier in the day. Because the newly added are interspersed with the old.
Why?
What is the point of stories being added to New! list slowly over the day, if the day's list gets blended every time additions are added? (It would make sense if new stories were added on top of old, that way more authors would get the benefit of being near the top a little while during busy days.)
Also strangely, the blending in is only for freshly added, seemingly the stories already on there retains the same order compared to each other.
Not, very random.
Is randomness of New! list placement just another myth?
Of course for a reader the solution is simple. Only check out day old New! list titles -- problem solved. (As far as I know they don't 'add' to one day old New! list titles.) Although to that end, it would be nice if the transition between yesterday's stories and today's was marked more clearly!
(Scrolling scrolling scrolling. Today, today. Scrolling, scrolling. Ah yesterday. Scrolling back up, up. Today. Down. Yesterday. A bit more up. Still yesterday. See what I mean? Annoying.)
Of course this rant was motivated by a personal "AAARRRGGH". When I jumped out of bed and went to my keyboard this morning (well 10 am, I'm a lazy slacker of a bum). I opened lit to check if my newest story had been approved yet.
It had! Had one vote already too.
Checked out New! list.
Nope my story wasn't there yet. A bit later it had another vote. But still not on new list.
A bit later it had two votes, still not on new list.
Well now it's on New! list. Inserted as third from bottom of today's stories at this time
I know, I know. I can just go advertise on "New story advertisments" on feedback forum, to make up for the late bad insertion on New! list. But I was more in the mood for ranting out my discontent than heading off to market myself.
Told ya I was a lazy bum, didn't I?
I mean:
On days with many stories getting posted, the New! list is updated several times a day. But! When new stories are added to the list during the day, the newest arent all placed on top. Instead they are interspersed within the stories that has already been on the list for hours.
Does anybody know how that works? (and maybe why?)
To me it seems a bit silly. Checking the New! list is one way to keep up and see if one of your favorite authors has a new thing up. But if you check New! list for the present day, you will not see a complete list of all stories for that day. You will see a partial list. Worse, yet, if you come back later in the day -- to check if more has been added -- you now have to go through the whole list again, including all the titles you noticed earlier in the day. Because the newly added are interspersed with the old.
Why?
What is the point of stories being added to New! list slowly over the day, if the day's list gets blended every time additions are added? (It would make sense if new stories were added on top of old, that way more authors would get the benefit of being near the top a little while during busy days.)
Also strangely, the blending in is only for freshly added, seemingly the stories already on there retains the same order compared to each other.
Not, very random.
Is randomness of New! list placement just another myth?
Of course for a reader the solution is simple. Only check out day old New! list titles -- problem solved. (As far as I know they don't 'add' to one day old New! list titles.) Although to that end, it would be nice if the transition between yesterday's stories and today's was marked more clearly!
(Scrolling scrolling scrolling. Today, today. Scrolling, scrolling. Ah yesterday. Scrolling back up, up. Today. Down. Yesterday. A bit more up. Still yesterday. See what I mean? Annoying.)
Of course this rant was motivated by a personal "AAARRRGGH". When I jumped out of bed and went to my keyboard this morning (well 10 am, I'm a lazy slacker of a bum). I opened lit to check if my newest story had been approved yet.
It had! Had one vote already too.
Checked out New! list.
Nope my story wasn't there yet. A bit later it had another vote. But still not on new list.
A bit later it had two votes, still not on new list.
Well now it's on New! list. Inserted as third from bottom of today's stories at this time
I know, I know. I can just go advertise on "New story advertisments" on feedback forum, to make up for the late bad insertion on New! list. But I was more in the mood for ranting out my discontent than heading off to market myself.
Told ya I was a lazy bum, didn't I?
for the little newbie from the good little witch.
ellynei and her strangely correct English
