Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

Is this perhaps due to some switch which authors use or don't notice?

An author can order the way the stories are displayed on his story list site - the two main ones are by date of posting, and by alphabetical. I suspect the default setting is by date of posting and the author has to set it to be alphabetical - I know I had to do that when I merged all my pen names together.

An author can order the way the stories are displayed on his story list site - the two main ones are by date of posting, and by alphabetical. I suspect the default setting is by date of posting and the author has to set it to be alphabetical - I know I had to do that when I merged all my pen names together.

You've got that backwards, as the default (as near as I can recall), is by date. I went in and reordered each of my displays, on all three systems, to keep my series together and in order. You can also physically shuffle them, so they show up in whichever order you want, moving each up or down in the list. It's handy, but borders on 'too much flexibility for our own good', as it's more likely to confuse readers looking for the newest stories and who are uninterested in the older stories they've already read.

looking more into it it does look like its only some authors and not all so I'm guessing its the Author sorting.

I'm guessing that, like me, many authors prefer keeping stories in series order, rather than alphabetical or date order. Even with date order, I'd prefer showing the most recent first, as opposed to the first story to the last posted.

But then, that tends to only affect those of us anal-retentive types. 'D