No but seriously

The site. It changed. I don't like change. I don't know what's going on, or why my stories have been added to other stories, or what the actual fuck.

I'm just sort of flailing at my keyboard impotently. Like a tyrannosaur with erectile dysfunction.

Pls halp.

Comments

[Mossflower]

Your stories have been added to other stories? that's probably the "sequel" system's doing.

Change is the base of progress! learn to love it!

tyrannosaur with erectile dysfunction

what...?

[Hard-Pressed Scribe]

Don't worry, Airstream.

I'm not a fucking doctor

I'll kill myself now, no need to say it.

[Serifina]

Step 1) Breathe. Change is good. Breathe. Change is good. Breathe.

Step 2) PANIC OH GOD RUN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE AND WE'RE ALL DOOMED PANIC

Step 3) Twitch.

Step 4) Endure. In enduring, grow strong.

[Willsons]

Poke it till it goes away!

[quick_study]

At least you're not using the site on a phone. It's so bad now.

[VoiceInTheDark]

That's an interesting choice of simile.

[shyguy7829]

[Stahri]

At least we were actually warned that the change was going to happen this time.

>Unread Chapters

until I roll out this new stuff which should be here by the weekend.

>Story Update Emails

and then bookshelves will be daily emails.

>Soon.vmf

I don't remember any warning the last time the site changed how fucking everything worked back in 2013-12-05. I had to learn how to half-ass a Stylish theme in order to make FIMfiction not burn my eyes every time I decided to spend ~8 hours straight reading about an OP Twilight Sparkle.

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It also helps that I've been waiting for the Library/Bookshelf feature ever since forever ago apparently March, so that might be why I haven't even looked at my pitchfork during this update. Too busy living in the future, (with forecasts from/about the future) to worry about the past.

[SoraPiroB]

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Step 5) Become the avatar to a powerful goddess

Step 6) ???

Step 7) Profit!

[CommandoDude]

Could be worse, half the feature box could be filled with shameless, talentless smut-OHMYGODITIS

[Stiggerzz]

Don't worry, Air. You'll be fine once you get used to it.

[StormyVenture]

Yeah, I feel your pain (sort of). I don't have any sequelizing issues because I haven't even written a single complete story yet. I regularly resent Knighty for the imposition of new and usually unwanted features and the removal of the design elements and functionality that I liked or at least gotten used to coping with in the case of some things.

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Oh, yes, so much warning. That's like someone pasting a note on your house, on a Friday, that they're going to demolish it on Saturday, to build a highway or maybe an expensive apartment complex.

[Stahri]

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Better than none at all, like the last major time it updated.

Probably a good idea to read the important site posts that talk about features breaking and whatnot.

[xoid]

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Not everyone visits daily.

[Stahri]

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Do you visit every two weeks, or longer? Because the gap between the first hint of there being a major update very soon was 12 days before it happened.

I know how this may come across, but If you don't visit the site on at least a weekly basis, then the fact that there are changes probably shouldn't be that big of a concern. Unless this just wasn't your week/month. Spend a month away from a site for whatever reason just to return to find it working in an entirely different way can be disorientating, but nothing can really be done about that short of a mass email or something.

Though to be fair, it would help if the news section wasn't flooded with useless information. Of course, it would also help if there was an actual post in nice big caps that said :
"MAJOR UPDATE PENDING"
Instead of having to read not particularly related (but still pretty freaking important news posts) and combing over them in order to find out that something major is going to happen. Maybe adding a red eyecatching tag on those posts might help, or have it spam your notification icon until you look at it.

As far as I'm concerned, at least as a non-author, this has been the smoothest major update yet. Some 502s for a night, had to redo nearly half the site worth of stylish, and spent quite a bit of time reorganizing my bookshelves, but meh.

Previous updates were considerably worse, and either way the site is/was/will be better due to them in the end.