Intriguing.
No, really. I'm really intrigued by them.
For as long as I can remember I've always believed that the admins at ffnet were non-existent in the running/improvement of the site.
And then wham. Books covers and things... which like I said, is actually pretty intriguing.
So, as far as I have seen, there's two major additions this week.
1- Story summary at the top of each chapter
This actually seems handy to me.
I do have a habit of clicking story links from outside sources- where they don't list the author's summary. And I'm always obsessed
about reading a summary before reading a story- so I usually end up
having to go on the author's page and yeah... I actually like this in a way. No more extra clicking to know the story summary for me.
I tried to think of other possible benefits of this and came up with two
- Sometimes if an author takes ages to update (like me) and I tend to forget which story this is- the story summary at the top can refresh my memory a bit.
- I know that some people write their summaries on the top of their chapters- which is unnecessary- so this will help make word-counts more accurate? What? It sounds logical.
2- Book Covers.
Okay as soon as I saw this, I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I immediately tried to picture what AtO's 'book cover' would look like. There was a lot of red(guess why?) and I imagined hiding bits and pieces of future plot points in there. So now in my mind AtO has a super complicated book cover- complete with "Da Vinci Code"-esque hidden clues.
Obviously, I managed to impress myself with my imaginary 'book cover'. Then I realised there was absolutely no way I'd be able to translate my mental image into an actual real-life 'book cover'.
As much as I love my avatar- and while Lily's Itachi would look good anywhere- I think I'll be changing the covers (even if it's just with an image that has my story title typed out in fancy font- actually that seems like a nice hassle-free idea.)
Now, you're probably going- gosh, this post is just way too positive.
You're right.
I'm purposely trying to not see the bad/annoying part in these changes.
Polar
P.S. Itachi seems to be way popular in AtO. He hasn't been around since chapter 6 but people keep waiting for him to come back (at least that's what I understand from the reviews). I feel amused guilty because I have no plans of bringing him back anytime soon.
Yeah I have to agree there are some nice changes, I even agree somewhat with the removal of extreme cases of outright porn. I however don't agree with them not giving notice to the people with these stories. They should at least Email the story back at the person before erasing... geez. I had to send one person their OWN story to them that I just happened to save. (I save very good ones on a zip drive for whenever I don't have a internet connection.) From what I understand they had one little fight scene that the aminastrator thought was alittle too gruesome.
ReplyDeleteI do love the fact they have the summery on top though. I think alot of people do the same thing as you to view them.
There's been another change! If you try to look up a fandom on FFNet it's not in althabetical order anymore! Everythings in popularity, or just messed up! And when you read a fic now the page is croped, so that it's even longer to read now! This is getting very annoying now.
ReplyDeleteOh wow. I feel bad for that person- having to ask people if they have a back up copy of their story. I tend to use fanficdownloader to save any super-swesome long fics that I know have re-read value. That actually kept me occupied during my occasional bouts of being without the internet.
ReplyDeleteJust saw that when opening one of my story updates- and ugh- that's just... I went on the frontpage to see if there was any explanation for this, nothing yet.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I did see something curious. Under upcoming it says "Stories: Notes feature." I really wonder about that.
Actually I just wonder what brought on all these changes. New owners?