Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

On the web page, we can see when a story was posted and when it was last updated. However, the last updated date changes to a completion date when the story is concluded, as it should. However, once the story is completed, there is no indication that the author updated a story to fix grammar or to add additional material.

I think a last revision date would be helpful to those who downloaded a completed story, especially when a newer story in that series is posted and we want to refresh failing memory. Currently, I open each of the older stories in the series and check "More Info" to see if any chapters have changed.

Does anyone else think that this would be useful? Or am I just too anal? Or both?

That is true, but I am lazy and think it would be really nice if the update date was shown on the author's story page. This way you do not waste a story count just checking on a story. And yes, I have a paid subscription with a 100 count. But not everyone does.

For example, Ernest Bywater's story '01-03 The Dareed War' has the following information on his page:

No. 01-03 - Granite Mannheim and his new regiment are on exercises when they see the neighbours invading. They're all that stands between the invaders and the bulk of the country, so they do what they're trained for; head for a spot to stand and fight while they wait for help to arrive. One regiment against 50,000 enemy troops and his men learn why they call him Granite.
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Tags: Fiction, Military, War, Royalty, Politics
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Posted: 4/12/2015, 6:15:43 AM Concluded: 4/13/2015, 5:39:57 PM

I think the following change to the date portion would be useful.

Posted: 4/12/2015, 6:15:43 AM Concluded: 4/13/2015, 5:39:57 PM Last Revised: 11/05/2017

I don't see how that would be useful. you have revisions on each chapter now. Having the revisions on the author page won't tell you if it was one chapter or multiple chapters that have had changed.

The only way something like this would work is if it listed all the chapters that had been changed. However, this would add too much clutter to the author page for little gain.

My 2 pennys

ld be really nice if the update date was shown on the author's story page. This way you do not waste a story count just checking on a story. And yes, I have a paid subscription with a 100 count. But not everyone does.

For example, Ernest Bywater's story '01-03 The Dareed War' has the following information on his page:

If you have a Premium account, the download links visible in the stories listings have this format:

https://storiesonline.net/s/11825-1509903902.zip

Where 11825is the story id and 1509903902 is the unix epoch time of the last modification or in this case about November 5, 2017 5:45:02 PM.

[The modification can either be a change in the story author name, title, description, tags or a change to any chapter.] Hence if you systematically download one of the format, and keep an infinite browser history, any story where the download button is not blue indicate a revised story at least worth redownloading to keep the last version.

It looks like adding a revision date is not strongly endorsed. Thanks for the feedback and keeping it polite.

I hope you all have a great weekend. I am off soon to spend time with relatives. Keep it safe. I would say keep it sane, but where is the fun in that?!

For those not in the knowing: The unix epoch time is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (UTC).
There are numerous on-line converters to get a 'normal' date-time from that number. Or have a go at calculating the number of days from that, find out all leap years, calculate those days/years from 1970, etc, etc. You get the point, just use a calculator.