Oct
8th
2014
The Bookshelf Update · 2:34pm Oct 8th, 2014
So I logged into fimfic this morning to find the sight has been updated! I immediately wasted about an hour experimenting like a preteen at summer camp. How are you all liking the new updates? I like being able to add a story to my read later list without actually clicking on it. (Would have been a godsend BEFORE I got super-speedy internet, but oh well. . . ) and we CAN MAKE GROUP POSTS AGAIN! Although I am kind of peeved off at this whole "color algorithm" that knighty put in to gussy up our avatars. I mean, Brown! BROWN!? That's my color! WTF!
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Danger Beans · 110 views
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Uh, yeah, that's your color. Look at your avatar, beany-boy. Fits perfectly.
I like being able to sort my stories in my RiL and that I now have places to put the stories I've read without being obligated to favorite them for that purpose. Now I can take every story I read and assign it to a location based on my overall opinion, and I like that.
2517462
Seriously!? I have forty followers and only ONE of them can be bothered to respond to my posts!?
But I digress. I'll probably add a "read" shelf for stories that I've read but not favorited and maybe a currently reading shelf or maybe a featured fiction shelf. Anything more than that would be too much work.
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And let's not forget that I'm at work right now.
But don't let it get to you I have 280+ followers and am lucky if I get more than 4 to respond to any of my blogs.
I thought about adding a 'Reading' bookshelf too. It would never have more than one story in it at a time, but I notice that the site alerts people when one of their stories goes into a public-access bookshelf, so I could use this as a means of letting people know that their story is on my chopping block.
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Hey now, you don't post stuff outside of fic spotlight's and the like very often.
But on a serious note, I still need to warm up to the changes myself. I did notice that I can see some people place my stories in bookshelves, however I'm not entirely sure how that works.
I've been too busy writing the past day to really sit down and take a look at just how these flashy new features work. So far the general opinion has been pretty positive from what I see though.
So I guess Knighty did something actually useful this time?
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Well I was able to find a way to change my color to black, so l feel better.
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Yep. I was online when this whole thing went live. It was a nightmare. 502 Hell. I couldn't even log in until up about an hour ago. But yeah, apparently there's still some things that are going to be addressed throughout the coming week, so fingers crossed.