Most stories have an url like /s/id/title-slug
Recently, I've seen some with /n/id/title-slug
Any idea why a story land in one category or the other?
Most stories have an url like /s/id/title-slug
Recently, I've seen some with /n/id/title-slug
Any idea why a story land in one category or the other?
It's pretty clear to me that the /s/ are multichapter stories, and the /n/ are single postings. This came in about the same time as the trailing /(digit) chapter numbering replaced the chapter tag in the URLs. (ETA: in the title slug)
ETA2: Oops, the other way round.
I had to change some /s/ to /[sn]/ in my tracking scripts to record the new single postings as well as the multichapters.
ETA3: the first /n/ posted was https://storiesonline.net/n/25192/curvylicious-family-girls dated 2023-11-19
Thanks, Looks like you are right.
's' is now reserved to single chapter posting and 'n' is for serials.
As there are ongoing serials with both s and n I didn't make the connection. Given the need to support the older url scheme, I fail to see the benefit of that change to Lazeez or the visitors. Maybe something related to the posting assistant or a preview feature.
I can see that only having to deal with a single title slug for a multichapter story, rather than #chapters+1 different ones, could lead to a significant efficiency gain, so the change should avoid the efficiency loss of having to deal with as many new URL branches. Old-style URLs could be (and, from results of manually editing the URL between /n/ and /s/, I think are already) transmogrified to the new-style if relevant, and this transmogrification need only be performed if the URL is not found, as a precheck on the deleted story handling.
Given the need to support the older url scheme, I fail to see the benefit of that change to Lazeez or the visitors.
The new structure fixes some of the drawback to the URL structure that I implemented back in 2013.
In 2013, on the advice of an SEO expert, I added a slug to each chapter when possible, but kept its id number. However, in the last couple of years things changed and that was no longer beneficial.
The new structure uses the /n/ designator for multipart stories, and uses a single slug with a simple designator for the sequence.
Of course, to keep any incoming link working, we keep supporting the old structure.