It seems that some authors' pages do not contain all their stories. E.g. https://storiesonline.net/s/20509/journeys-of-the-uss (Erica Olafson, Journeys of the Tigershark (Vol 9, GC 35)) cannot be found on the author's page. Maybe this is due to the title having been changed (compare the link and the title)?
Looks like the sort order is messed up.
Sort by date, and it shows up as "Erica Olafson, Journeys of the Tigershark (Vol 9, GC 35)" but I notice the index page says "(Volume 9, GC 34 )".
Interesting - sort by Title Ascending, it's not there, but Descending, it's item 21.
Edit to add
On a default sort (and also Title Ascending), the list is:-
1 ) Adventures of a Greenie (Vol 1 GC 21)
2 ) Children of Terra (Terra Cycle Vol 1 GC 4)
3 ) Eric Olafson, Captain Black Velvet (Vol 6. GC 32)
4 ) Eric Olafson, Midshipman (Vol 4 GC 30)
5 ) Eric Olafson, First Journeys (Vol 2 GC 28)
6 ) Eric Olafson, Space Pirate (Vol 5, GC 31)
7 ) Eric Olafson, Fleet Cadet (Vol 3 GC 29)
8 ) Erica Olafson, Adventures of the Tigershark (Vol 7, GC 32)
9 ) Eric Olafson, Neo Viking (Vol 1 GC 27)
10 ) Erica Olafson, Voyages of the Tigershark (Vol 8, GC 34)
11 ) Eric Olafson, Midshipman (Vol 4 GC 30)
12 ) Hairball
13 ) The Hearing
14 ) How to Kill a Cyborg Dinosaur
15 ) I Am Neon
16 ) The Inspection
17 ) A Justice Provider's Tale
18 ) The Non Cits of Blue Moon
19 ) The Ranger
20 ) Spacebus to Benton's Colony
21 ) They Returned
22 ) Union Life : Snap Shot "just a Day"
23 ) Xeno Activity (Vol 3 GC Book 3)
Note that 4) Midshipman, is repeated at 11).
This is sorted by Title Descending, then I reversed the sequence:-
23 ) Adventures of a Greenie (Vol 1 GC 21)
22 ) Children of Terra (Terra Cycle Vol 1 GC 4)
21 ) Erica Olafson, Journeys of the Tigershark (Vol 9, GC 35)
20 ) Erica Olafson, Voyages of the Tigershark (Vol 8, GC 34)
19 ) Erica Olafson, Adventures of the Tigershark (Vol 7, GC 32)
18 ) Eric Olafson, Captain Black Velvet (Vol 6. GC 32)
17 ) Eric Olafson, Space Pirate (Vol 5, GC 31)
16 ) Eric Olafson, Midshipman (Vol 4 GC 30)
15 ) Eric Olafson, Fleet Cadet (Vol 3 GC 29)
14 ) Eric Olafson, First Journeys (Vol 2 GC 28)
13 ) Eric Olafson, Neo Viking (Vol 1 GC 27)
12 ) Hairball
11 ) The Hearing
10 ) How to Kill a Cyborg Dinosaur
9 ) I Am Neon
8 ) The Inspection
7 ) A Justice Provider's Tale
6 ) The Non Cits of Blue Moon
5 ) The Ranger
4 ) Spacebus to Benton's Colony
3 ) They Returned
2 ) Union Life : Snap Shot "just a Day"
1 ) Xeno Activity (Vol 3 GC Book 3)
Both Sorts appear to be messed up, but at least this has no duplicates.
Something to do with the commas, perhaps?
Something to do with the commas, perhaps?
There appear to be two thing going on with the sort order.
1. Words like 'a' and 'the' are ignored.
2. In some of the stories it is 'Eric' and in others it is 'Erica'
There appear to be two thing going on with the sort order.
1. Words like 'a' and 'the' are ignored.
2. In some of the stories it is 'Eric' and in others it is 'Erica'
1. Sorting on the most significant first word. It's quite common and possibly 'automatic' if titles are saved as "Storyname, The" or "Better Storyname, A" to get a logical sorting order with default sorting.
2. Eric/Erica is correct because that's how the stories are named. Usually Eric+space should come before Eric+a because the space comes before the a in the ascii table but some sorting algorithms place the a-z + A-Z before any other characters.
I understood what you said about sorting. I was responding to PlayWithwires comment, below, to explain why the list was sorted correctly.
Looks like the sort order is messed up.
Do you have some of the story tags activated in Category Exclusion Preferences???
https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/user/categoryPrefs.php
I thought it was just me. I tried refreshing, but no difference.
It was on her Author's page, but then went missing a few days go, even though it still shows up on the Ongoing Serials page and the Home page Stream.
It's a known problem which is discussed here before. When you first open the author page it comes with an unknown sorting that resembles ascending by title and the header arrow says it is. You have to switch to another sorting and back to get the correct ascending order by title. I do this almost automatically because of this problem.
I reported what was probably the same bug a few years ago, using Argon's stories as the example. I think he had 20 stories back then (it was divisible by 10) and - using the default sort order - some appeared twice and some not at all.
Changing the sort order definitely fixed it.
Unfortunately sorting the stories seems to be a premier feature (@zellus: category exclusion as well), it's not available for me.
Thanks to all repliers. I'll just live with it (currently the story is again visible in the author's list).
btw, here are two previous threads where this problem was reported. There are more.
- https://storiesonline.net/d/s6/t2889/multiple-listing-of-stories-in-authors-section
- https://storiesonline.net/d/s6/t3253/bug-when-looking-at-stories-by-author