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.
