Literotica technical difficulties

[CalBishForNow]

I've read stories here for over 10 years, but just started publishing stories last year and just started thinking about certain basic details more recently than that, and have given up on figuring out certain things myself. Two questions.

1. The forums, the stories, and the connection or lack thereof. Is there an easy way to get from a forum poster to the stories they've written or vice versa? Sometimes forum posters have a link to their stories in the text of the post or their signature, which I appreciate, but not all do, and it seems even harder to go from the stories to the forums. So far the best I've been able to figure out is to have the story side of the site open in one tab and the forum side open in another and search as needed. It's not all that big a deal but it really seems like there should be a better way.
2. Tags on stories. Is there no autocomplete option or "favorites" list? Once again, I'm resorting to having multiple tabs open when posting a new story: the New Story page itself, the Tags homepage to make sure I'm using the correct spacing and all that, and one of my previous stories to refresh my memory of how I did it last time. Again, it seems like there should be a better way.

I wouldn't be surprised if the answers to those questions are either "no, it's a 20-plus-year-old site, they don't have that functionality" or "here's a really simple thing you missed," but I might as well ask.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

I haven’t found a better way to toggle between the forum side and story side. I will just have each open in its own tab.

 

[drusus]

The forums, the stories, and the connection or lack thereof. Is there an easy way to get from a forum poster to the stories they've written or vice versa? Sometimes forum posters have a link to their stories in the text of the post or their signature, which I appreciate, but not all do, and it seems even harder to go from the stories to the forums.

The forum and story sides are different things so there's no link between them by default. Having said that, user names are the same on both sides so it wouldn't be a complicated update to add another tab to forum profiles to link to the same account on the story side.



Adding a direct link to a user's writing next to the About button would give the connection you're looking for. It's just a question of whether the site owners would want to spend the time adding it.