Sorting by date

[lc69hunter]

I am posting as a reader, but I believe this is of interest to the authors also.

I have read several of this author's stories over the years and have enjoyed them. I just came across one of hers and decided to look a the body of her work. She has a female MC who appears in related stories over a five year span, but titled in such a way as to not be easily found and categorized, mixed among her other stories.

I have messaged her to see if she can sort on her author's page, or maybe her private database, but what are your thoughts? A date sort should be a fairly easy thing for the admins to do, as now they are sorted alphabetically.

 

[alohadave]

I am posting as a reader, but I believe this is of interest to the authors also.

I have read several of this author's stories over the years and have enjoyed them. I just came across one of hers and decided to look a the body of her work. She has a female MC who appears in related stories over a five year span, but titled in such a way as to not be easily found and categorized, mixed among her other stories.

I have messaged her to see if she can sort on her author's page, or maybe her private database, but what are your thoughts? A date sort should be a fairly easy thing for the admins to do, as now they are sorted alphabetically.

I use tampermonkey and the script provided by @MellowJoe in this post: https://forum.literotica.com/thread...by-date-solution-inside.654644/#post-95270746

It works great, sorts by date, but you can also sort by title. The only caveat is that you lose series titles when sorting by title. A minor loss to be able to see stories by date.

And on a side note, this stylebot addon works great to allow you to see links you've visit on Lit in the past (since the site does not mark read links for some reason). https://forum.literotica.com/thread...ve-visited-as-purple-solution-inside.1577812/

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I just copy the story list and paste it into an spreadsheet. Sorting is then easy to accomplish.

However, I agree that a mechanism to do so within the site would be helpful. All it would require is for the stories to be listed in an HTML table, but going back and doing this for the thousands of stories already listed would be a challenge.

 

[NotWise]

You can get a date-sorted list with the sites "search" function.

Go the the advanced search options and search by the author's name (entry box near the bottom of the page). Select "Date" under "Sort Results by" and decide whether you want the newest first or oldest first. You have to enter something in the search field, so enter a space. That gives me a full list, and everything else gave me a partial list. Then hit the search bar and let the software do the work.

 

[ElectricBlue]

A sort option on your view of an author's story list would be ideal. Given most everything else can be sorted by date order, both oldest to newest and vice versa, I'm surprised we can't do it with a toggle button.

NotWise's solution does that (that's live and learn for me, because I rarely use Search, other than to find an author's page), but it's not an immediate button click.

I've had several readers ask the best order to read my stories (there's quite a bit of interconnectivity) and generally, that's old to new.

 

[NotWise]

I suspect that sorting the view of an authors catalog is on the list of features for the new authors page, whenever that becomes the next priority. In the mean time, the search function isn't hard to use, and you can bookmark the page if you want to keep it around. The search parameters are in the URL, so the bookmark takes you back to the same list.

 

[RejectReality]

I remember mention of various means of sortation, but I can't remember whether it related to the public or author's control panel version of your story list. Obviously we have that functionality in our control panel, so that may have been it. Something is tickling at the back of my brain hinting that the public story list will also be sortable, but I'm not confident in that recollection.

Series would put a bit of a wrinkle in that, but it could also be sorted by the first in the series for date, or the highest in the series for score, etc. and still keep them all grouped in the display. It wouldn't be impossible by any stretch, but it would require a bit more coding to make the public display user sortable while maintaining the series grouping, which will certainly be a thing in whatever the final public display is.

 

[MellowJoe]

I just copy the story list and paste it into an spreadsheet. Sorting is then easy to accomplish.

You can get a date-sorted list with the sites "search" function.

These are perfectly cromulent ways to sort the stories, but you have to go though these manual steps Every Single Time.

With the script, you do a bit of setup once (add the extension, then add the script), and after that, all you need to do is click to sort the stories.

 

[NotWise]

These are perfectly cromulent ways to sort the stories, but you have to go though these manual steps Every Single Time.

With the script, you do a bit of setup once (add the extension, then add the script), and after that, all you need to do is click to sort the stories.

Had to look up "cromulent."

You can bookmark the sorted list and return to it with one click. You don't have to take the manual steps Every Single Time.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Maybe I'm just anal, but in order to help the readers read my related stories in the correct order, I wrote a guide - "How To Read The Virginiaverse," and update it each time I add a new story. I didn't write the stories in chronological order (on purpose) so I planned from the start to have a guide. At first it fit on my Bio page but it got too big which is why I wrote the guide and posted it in the 'How To' category.

This way, my readers don't have to bother sorting my stories.

Also, the new Series function allows authors to collect their stories together and order them in the proper order to help the readers read non-chaptered stories in the correct order.

Of course, if the author is no longer active, the reader will have to resort to sorting them chronologically (assuming they were written in chronological order).

 

[MellowJoe]

Had to look up "cromulent."

You embiggened your vocabulary.

 

[tenyari]

The site's default sort alphabetically method is very annoying. It helps me alone because my first story 'A.I. Girl' also happens to be first in letters and has always had high reviews. By contrast the entry that's last on my listing happens to be the one I personally like the least and have a plan to delete as soon as a rewrite is ready... so it's nice that it's buried down there.

But when I go to read it's a confusing mess that gets worse the more work an author has. Which often means that it's harder to sort things out on the authors I want to read most.

And I suspect that as I keep going with writing, my own list of stories will look more and more messy.

Sorting tools for various methods would be nice. But lacking a huge pile of ways to sort and filter, just a sort by date would be nice.