Reader's Interface

[MindsMirror]

It would be great for authors get a preview of the reader interface before it is put out for public use.

We don't know how much input was taken from authors for the Android App, but the advertising images for it are misleading at best. This one clearly shows bold and italics text. However, when we checked, none of our stories appear properly (as intended). http://literotica.com/android/images/gallery/Screenshot_2012-11-08-13-50-39.png Is that a permanent feature or something on a list to be fixed?

We're concerned that without author input on the new reader interface, something similar might occur.
-MM

 

[Hypoxia]

We don't know how much input was taken from authors for the Android App, but the advertising images for it are misleading at best. This one clearly shows bold and italics text. However, when we checked, none of our stories appear properly (as intended). http://literotica.com/android/images/gallery/Screenshot_2012-11-08-13-50-39.png Is that a permanent feature or something on a list to be fixed?

That screenshot may reflect a somewhere-over-the-rainbow future version of the app but it's not current reality. The current app does not support italics, boldface, underscores, or blockquotes or centering. For now, assume that app readers will see only plain text with minimal formatting. Focus on your words, not typographic effects.

 

[MindsMirror]

Focus on your words, not typographic effects.

We do focus on words, probably obsessively. When we started writing here, we didn't know there was an Android App (or maybe it wasn't released at that time). We used the typographic effects to achieve emphasis or thoughts. Now it turns out that those are lost to an evidently large portion of the people that read our work. So, it'd be nice to have it fixed.

In the upcoming NEW reader interface, we just want to make certain that something similar doesn't happen again.

-MM

 

[PervOtaku]

I didn't know until now there even was an android app. Hell, I've been using google chrome on my android tablet to read some stuff here. Sounds like that's actually the better option?

Given that we are allowed only minimal formatting as it is, it seems rather unnecessary for the app to be removing it.

To wit, when I publish my stories in an html-free zone, I do things differently, like all-caps rather than italics. If I put something in italics I damn well mean for the reader to see it with emphasis.

 

[Hypoxia]

I didn't know until now there even was an android app. Hell, I've been using google chrome on my android tablet to read some stuff here. Sounds like that's actually the better option?

A tablet or phone browser needs online connection to go beyond the current page. The app allows pre-loading 11 files, great for offline reading. I typically load the app with stories or chapters to read when I'm out of wireless range.

 

[MindsMirror]

We're all for having our work in front of people's eyes. That includes Android or Apple apps.

What we want is some say in how our work appears. When publishing on Lit we did extensive research before doing so. Pros and cons of submitting a .doc or .rtf file. The benefits of submitting raw text with HTML markup etc... All of our works were submitted with the various information in the FAQs in mind.

Having the any interface remove content from the work, seems unfair to both the reader and the author. We're hoping calling attention to it, will speed fixing in the Android App and prevent similar issues with the NEW web interface.

-MM

 

[nikyc]

Hah, oh dear. If the Android app doesn't support HTML formatting my stories are probably just one long string of text. Even my paragraph breaks are done through double <br /> tags.

Would seem odd to me if it wasn't supported though. You know, seeing as HTML is the way we view the web in the first place. I mean what else is there even? If the Android app uses some propriety formatting engine I don't see how we'd be able to accommodate both that and regular browsers without uploading two versions. (Or they convert it.)

 

[MindsMirror]

Anyone heard when the new Reader Interface will be made available for authors to see how their works will be presented?

We're asking because recently every story we open has to be refreshed F5, so it can be seen. Initially it opens with what appears to be raw XML and HTML.
-MM

 

[sr71plt]

Why don't you post this here: http://forum.literotica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5

That's the best chance of having anything anyone can do reading the proposal. Sounds like a good idea, but I'm tired of discussions of changes that could be made to the Web site being hashed out in the AH where no one who can do anything about them either sees them or cares enough to indicate they have seen them and are considering them.

 

[MindsMirror]

We're posting here because as authors, we care about how our works are displayed. If we were to guess, most authors probably care more than the general reader on Lit.

 

[sr71plt]

We're posting here because as authors, we care about how our works are displayed. If we were to guess, most authors probably care more than the general reader on Lit.

So, you don't want it actually done (in which case you'd post it where those who might do it will see it). You just want authors to be yammering uselessly and spinning wheels rather than writing. I see.

 

[MindsMirror]

So, you don't want it actually done (in which case you'd post it where those who might do it will see it). You just want authors to be yammering uselessly and spinning wheels rather than writing. I see.

We have in fact posted there. Nobody seem to read those threads.

And finally, it seemed like maybe Lit was pushing it out without telling anyone it was going live. Clicking on links to stories was bring up raw XML and HTML.

-MM

 

[sr71plt]

We have in fact posted there. Nobody seem to read those threads.

Eventually you'll realize that the "nobody" includes anyone from site administration. You're like all those others who come in here bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and immediately start trying to get the place redecorated to their personal little nest--to find, like the rest of us did years ago--that no one is listening and that the AH has a lot of folks who have been in the wars for a long time and who can only think "well, here we go again" at your flurry of redecoration plans.

It's only been a year that the site has even had an area of the forum where you can post something like this appropriately. They don't care. They don't care.

 

[MindsMirror]

Eventually you'll realize that the "nobody" includes anyone from site administration. You're like all those others who come in here bright-eyed and bushy-tailed...

Yes, maybe, what's wrong with that?

and immediately start trying to get the place redecorated to their personal little nest--to find, like the rest of us did years ago--that no one is listening and that the AH has a lot of folks who have been in the wars for a long time and who can only think "well, here we go again" at your flurry of redecoration plans.

No, Lit is the one changing things. We'd like to have input and have read others voice similar opinions. The android app doesn't even support the same formatting the web interface does.

It's only been a year that the site has even had an area of the forum where you can post something like this appropriately. They don't care. They don't care.

How does that change? By sitting down and shutting up?

-MM

 

[sr71plt]

I'm sorry, I'm too tired of you to respond (or even to read much of your post) and am busy writing a story. Carry on as you wish. I'll just put you on ignore.

 

[ChloeTzang]

We have in fact posted there. Nobody seem to read those threads.

And finally, it seemed like maybe Lit was pushing it out without telling anyone it was going live. Clicking on links to stories was bring up raw XML and HTML.

-MM

Manu does read them and reply. Just keep commenting there. It's a tough job.