May
8th
2014
Jesus Christ · 6:53pm May 8th, 2014
Time Crusade now has over 1000 favorites. 
Though, curiously, only just over 600 likes. I'm guessing a lot of people find it interesting but are reserving judgement until later. I personally tend to do it the other way around, but I admit it probably makes more sense using favorites for tracking ongoing fics rather than archiving finished ones. They should probably call it something different, really. "Follows" would make sense, though it's kinda already taken.
Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone for your support and patience, and also assure you once more that the next chapter is almost done and will most certainly not take another five months to show up. 
O snap, I completely forgot you updated! I put it off due to work and for some reason my favorites list isn't glowing even though I haven't read the new chapter yet,
Gratz on the 1k faves!
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I really wish I knew what causes that problem.
Maybe it has something to do with how I edit the chapter? Next time I'll just put it up and leave it alone rather than mess around with it, see if that helps.
Ah...no problem.
You're welcome to our support, Fervidor. ^_^ I strongly hope to see destiny altered therein.
Also, the reason for the favorites / likes disparity is that favoriting a story allows you to get email notifications when it updates. So people who may not necessarily regard it as a favorite story will favorite it so they can follow it.
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Also, as an addition to this, you can't unlike something once you hit the green thumb. If a story takes a really bad turn into an area where the reader isn't willing to go, he or she can't make the vote neutral again. They can only turn the green thumb into a dislike, and some stories just don't deserve that red one.
--Spade
2089368 That too.
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It always happens to the same stories for me... I have one or two stories that I get the email notifications for, but don't show up as unread chapters in my favorites. I can't remember if Time Crusade has done it before or not, but I know when it happens on other stories it doesn't affect everyone who has faved it, just a small number. That makes me think it's more like some glitch on the reader's end; like some hiccup in the code that occurs only rarely when people are adding a story to their favorites,
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It's just that people had the same problem with my previous multi-chapter fic, Black Hat. So I'm a bit worried it's an issue on my side of things.
It deserves it, after all this story is what inspired me write a Spike/ Sweetiebelle fic myself. Keep up the great work.
You know, a while back, the site admins were talking about an overhaul to the favorites system... I wonder what ever happened to that.
For the record, I have like a billion favorites because there's no easy way to find stories that you've only liked but not favorited and so I can get email updates. (That said, Time Crusade literally made me burst out laughing so it got a fave and a like.)
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MerlosTheMad has a similar issue. Most of the time, I get the updates from his blog.
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If it's common, just toss out a quick blog when it updates. I know I got the notification in my feed for the latest chapter, but it didn't show up in my favorites list as unread until I unfaved & refaved it.
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I believe, based on previous experience, that this issue is caused by publishing a chapter and then un-publishing the chapter at any point to work on it. Is this something you ever do?
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What, are you kidding? That's something I always do.
Unpublishing and republishing is the only way I can actually see my own edits. I thought we were supposed to do it that way.
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I might have phrased that wrong. I also might be wrong, because I've never tested this myself, just heard some people say that.
But you don't have to do anything with the Unpublish button to view changes, you just save the changes from the edit menu and click on Edit again to switch back to the regular view of the chapter.
I hope this was helpful.
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I kinda already suspected it might be that, though.
Actually, no. Just using the edit option doesn't make the changes show up - it just loads the old unedited version. (Even though I'm pretty sure the edits do occur.) That always makes me worried the readers won't see the edits right away, which is why I do the unpublish-publish thing. I should probably stop that, though.
I would say favorites as they currently stand should be renamed to "subscriptions", and have a separate collection of favorites that come with no notification options.