| Listings count |
[Feb. 17th, 2008|04:54 pm] |
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You may have noticed that the listings count suddenly had a big drop recently. We've gotten rid of the fanfiction.net listings that were auto-added when the site was set up--the ones that didn't have any recs, thumbs downs or reviews at least. |
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| Sort capability added to search results |
[Sep. 1st, 2007|03:33 pm] |
You can now sort your search results by Newest, Oldest, Most Popular and Least Popular when searching from the "Search" box or when clicking a link (author, fandom, tag, etc.) in a fanwork listing. |
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| A survey on the 'bury' function |
[Aug. 23rd, 2007|10:22 am] |
Poll #1043939 Buries poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllListings show who recced a fanwork. If they also showed who buried it, how would this influence your use of the bury function? Listings show who recced a fanwork. Do you think they should also show who buried it? If you have specific thoughts about these, please put them in a comment. Do you think "bury" should be changed to another term? Would you like to see the thumb's down icon replaced with something else? If so, make your suggestion here. (If you have a specific graphic example, put the link to it here; if not, just describe your idea.) Tickies |
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| Argh. Just restored from backup. |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|08:59 pm] |
There was a database problem this evening that forced me to do a restore from backup. The backup was 20 hours old, so if you registered with the site, added or edited listings, voted or left reviews within the past 20 hours, I can't tell you how (really, really, really) sorry I am to have to tell you that that data's lost. I know how much work it is to add listings and write reviews.
If you find you can't log in, please re-register.
Thank you so much for your patience. |
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| New feature: alternate URLs |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|11:56 am] |
You can now add alternate locations of a fanwork to a listing when you edit an existing listing or add a new one.
Now when the admin duplicate search is run, fanworks that have the same title and author but point to different locations will be merged into one and all locations will be included on the merged record. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 6th, 2007|08:40 am] |
First the poll, then some brief background about FanworksFinder.
Poll #1034273 Making FanworksFinder more useful.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat do you think would make FanworksFinder more useful to you?
FanworksFinder came out of strikethrough07. People were talking about an all-encompassing fanworks archive that would house everything it possibly could, and I thought, "Everything is already out there; we just need a way to find it." So that's the goal of FanworksFinder: to eventually list everything--or as much of "everything" as is possible.
The second goal is to make it easy to fanworks you want to read/view. That's why all listings are editable by any logged-in user: the more metadata a listing has, the more specific people can get when they use FanworksFinder's search box. It's all why we have the "rec" and "bury" functions, along with "People who recced this also recced...." and the ability to see a user's recs in their user profile.
Two new features are being worked on to help make finding fic even easier. The first is the ability to sort search results. The second is the ability to specify rec, bury and review thresholds--for instance, you might want to pull up House/Cuddy fics that have had at least 2 recs, or zero buries. But this latter feature is only useful if people are reccing and/or burying listings as they go through the site, so please, if you find a fanwork that you enjoy, rec it; if you find a fanwork that made your eyes bleed, bury it--either only takes a second and both help improve the database enormously.
If you have any suggestions for how FanworksFinder might further improve, please comment here or send an email to support@fanworksfinder.com.
Thanks! |
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| New feature! |
[Aug. 2nd, 2007|06:50 pm] |
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One by one we'll get all the great feature suggestions implemented. For today I've added the ability for users to see what listings they've submitted. Just go to "Your Stuff" and you'll see a new orange button: "Submitted". Click that and it'll list everything you've posted to the site. |
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| Search gets even better |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|08:49 am] |
Introducing search codes!
Now you can restrict a search term to a specific field. For instance, if you're looking for "House" fic, you'd normally get every listing that has "house" somewhere in it--summary, title, etc. With the new search codes, you pull up only those listings that have "House" in the fandom field. It's easy! Here's how:
f:house
The "f:" bit is the search code. There are seven field codes available, and they're listed at the end of this post.
But first, there are a few small things you need to know about search codes.
1) You can mix search-coded terms with nonsearch-coded terms:
f:house +cane
f:potc "black pearl"
2) You can mix search-coded terms with search-coded terms:
f:house t:cane
f:lotrps p:Dom
3) If you have a search term that's two or more words, use multiple field codes instead of quotation marks.
f:boston f:legal
4) Make sure you put the search code right up against your search term.
wrong: f: house
wrong: f : house
wrong: f :house
right: f:house
5) There's no need to use a plus sign in front of a search code (+f:house) because the search code automatically requires that that term be in all the search results.
6) A minus sign in front of a search code will be ignored.
Here are the codes:
| Code |
Description |
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| a: |
Author |
a:heidi |
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Fandom |
f:house |
| c: |
Character |
c:Shizune |
| p: |
Pairing |
p:Dom |
| t: |
Tag |
t:cane |
| g: |
Genre |
g:horror |
| s: |
Status - either WIP or complete. You can use "w" or "c" as shorthand. |
s:c |
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| New feature: "Thumbs down" icon added |
[Jul. 24th, 2007|01:24 pm] |
Now you can see how many people have buried a given fanwork. If a fanwork listing has at least one "bury", a small "thumbs down" icon will appear under its "Rec" button along with a number showing how many people have "buried" the listing.
Unlike with recs, however, we won't be adding a "Who Buried" section to the fanwork listing page. Because "Who Recced" allows you to see what other fanworks people with similar tastes to yours have read/viewed and enjoyed, it's useful information. There's not, on the other hand, a whole lot of use to be had in seeing what other fanworks people who hated what you hated also hate, unless you're looking to have a "sit around and hate stuff together" party.
There's also the concern that without anonymity, people may be reluctant to use the bury function.
Thus there are more good reasons against a "Who Buried" list than for it.
No doubt there will be a percentage (hopefully small) of users who will "abuse" the bury function by applying it to authors they dislike regardless of the merits or lack thereof of the author's fanworks. Likewise, there will be a percentage of users who will "abuse" the rec function by applying it to authors they're friends with, again regardless of the merits or lack thereof of the author's fanworks. These two groups probably, in the grand scheme of things, cancel each other out, particularly if other users rec, bury and/or review affected fanworks based on the fanworks' merits. |
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| Bug fix: avatar upload |
[Jul. 20th, 2007|03:57 pm] |
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Hello! If you've tried to upload an avatar to your FanworksFinder profile and encountered an error, please try again. That feature is now up and running correctly. |
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| Whoops! *cringe* |
[Jul. 19th, 2007|10:54 am] |
The problem with user registration on FanworksFinder.com has been fixed. |
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| Search tip of the week & two new features |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|04:54 pm] |
Search tip of the week
Do you use the same search terms over and over again? Save your most-used searches! At the top of your search results pages you'll see a black box with "Like these results? Name this search:" in it. Give your search a descriptive name (or leave it as just the search terms if you wish) and click "Save it!"
Once you've saved a search, you can access it from the Saved Searches box in the right-hand column of every page (and also in "Your Stuff").
Saving your most-used search terms has an additional benefit: you can choose to pull up only those listings that have been added since the last time you clicked the "New only" search. (Or since you first added the search, if you haven't clicked the "New only" link for that search before.)
To delete a saved search, just click the red X (in the Saved Searches box; if you're in "Your Stuff" click "delete search").
New feature: RSS for saved searches
Searching has just become even more convenient; now you can get an RSS feed of your saved searches. You have to have at least one search saved to take advantage of this. Once you've saved a search, just click the orange RSS symbol in the Saved Searches box to access the feed. (The RSS feed link is also available from the "Your Stuff" area.)
New feature: Fandom and author info from FanHistory.com
A light gray "info" icon has been added after each author and fandom name in story listings. Clicking this link does a search on the FanHistory.com wiki for that author or fandom. FanHistory.com's information is more comprehensive in some areas than others, but fortunately it's a wiki: if you have info to add or correct, just click "create this page" if a page for that author or fandom doesn't yet exist or "edit" if you wish to add to or correct an existing entry. |
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| Search tip of the week |
[Jul. 4th, 2007|07:19 pm] |
Is your search bringing up results from archives you're not interested in visiting? Keep them out of your results using the minus sign (-), such as:
-fanlib
-fanfiction.net
-adultfanfiction
-livejournal
-quizilla
etc. Alternately, you can limit your search results to a specific archive:
+fanlib
+fanfiction.net
+adultfanfiction
etc.--but remember: only use one +archive in your search or you won't turn up any results! |
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