Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

OK, I think. I understand, and I won't winge again.

Ian

ETA read some of the other threads. I WON'T WINGE AGAIN.

A totally atrocious suggestion.

Divide all stories in thirds, then measure the time between "load more" clicks.

Too fast and there's captcha. Fail and you're logged out. Fail repeatedly and get banned...

Someone here said they go to the end of the previous chapter - when a new one comes along - so they can remember where the plot was.
Sometimes I go back to the newest chapter and see what the user comments are, and then maybe refresh in situ.

Atrocious is correct!

I'm using iPadOS 15.1 there isn't a clickable button or region on my iPad to get to the rest of the chapter. It does let me click and view the rest of the chapter on my desktop running Win10 however. Does anyone have a way to see the entire chapter on an iPad?

@lazeez
my iPad is on 9.3.5, and is not able to upgrade because of its age.
so no more reading on the iPad until this is fixed or i save up enough for a new iPad.

Would "Network Bypass Service" make it so I didn't have to "click for more text"? I thought that was a premier only thing, or something. I guess "network bypass service" makes an account no longer a "free" account? That makes sense, but I'm not sure how network bypass service works. Will the site work if you're already using a VPN, and you pay for network bypass service?

Sorry if these are stupid questions.

Right now I'm limited to an Android device, so I'm trying "live" html inspectors (txt can't show italics, which bugs me when an author is trying to show emphasis ) from Google play. Have to enter a code every login, and they don't work consistently, so it may be worth the price, just to escape the frustration of no longer being able to save the html directly by viewing the page source. But I'd rather not waste the cash on a network bypass service I don't require, if a premier membership is actually necessary to bypass the click for more thingy.

Thank you for taking the time to reply! Alright, that's awesome. I may continue to muddle through for a bit, because my (extremely intermittently employed) budget is even tighter than usual right now, especially with Christmas in a couple weeks, but it's good to know I have that option, when I can.

The site rocks, btw. I much prefer your interface to that of the site with the name that starts with lit and ends with erotica. So much more user friendly, and sensible!

The usual save (or save as) will only save the original page source and hence not getting the full chapter. A slightly long-winded way to go about saving the modified DOM is:

1. Load whole chapter as usual
2. hit F12, both Chrome and Firefox will bring up the DOM inspector
3. right-click on the html tag (second line in what looks like page source on the top/left depending on your layout settings) 》 Copy 》 copy outer HTML
4. Open your favourite text editor, paste and save the result.

You can also create a bookmarklet that saves the serialized DOM tree to a file with something like

var shell = require('shelljs');
var data = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(document);
shell.echo(data).to("your/original/file.html");

but be careful it will overwrite the file each time.

With 100 chapters, it's a hassle to go to each chapter, click on the "more text", then save the whole text.

Well TANSTAAFL.

As others said: buy a premium membership, it's not that expensive if you just buy a few months every year to download these long stories.
I understand the reluctance some readers might have to subscribing to a site like SOL. I had that for a long time before I subscribed. Getting to know more and more about SOL I realized that it's safer to subscribe to SOL than it is to subscribing to one of the big news sites. Do you have a facebook account? That is way more dangerous than a SOL subscription :)

Or Twitter.

Good, because only twits tweet. Twitter is the most aptly named of the (un)social media companies.

But even so, given the constant juggling to keep SOL afloat, I can't imagine the clones are hugely profitable :-(

They probably insert advertisements in the clones.

But even so, given the constant juggling to keep SOL afloat, I can't imagine the clones are hugely profitable :-(

They probably insert advertisements in the clones.

My guess would be that they are using it a bait to trick people into downloading malware.

My guess would be that they are using it a bait to trick people into downloading malware.

Yep, probably along with the advertisements :D

Or their advertisements for more malware. "Get rich fast from your own hom (sic)"

Couldn't the load text button for the free version of SOL be placed directly under the chapter header.

So, I'm immersed in a story, click to get the next chapter, and because I'm immersed in the story I just carry on reading and don't even notice the [load text] button. I get to the end of the first loaded text (probably in the middle of a fast-paced action sequence), and either A) click on the [Next Chapter] link and get really confused by the missing chunk of story, or B) realise I've missed loading the rest of the story text, scroll up to the top of the page, hit the button, scroll back down and then spend some time searching for the correct place to restart reading. Both those scenarios cause a major break in the flow of the story.

By all means, have a button at the top, but in addition to the one at the bottom, not as a replacement/movement.

Couldn't the load text button for the free version of SOL be placed directly under the chapter header.

I've just been going to the end of the page loaded so far, clicking the links as required, then going back to the top of the page & start reading.
It's annoying, but not really any sort of real inconvenience for access to a huge range of excellent free stories.

In a few years when i've got my mortgage & a few other debts cleared i'll be able to afford a paid membership, but until then it's a small inconvenience to still have access & the site being able to continue to operate without the site's content & the author's works being ripped off by filth.

Heck, it he can identify the specific accounts being used by the bots, he should delete them.

Heck, it he can identify the specific accounts being used by the bots, he should delete them.

From personal experience with other sites, the 'free' accounts get created constantly by bots. Unless you have a site that requires that a new person post in a specific area to confirm that they're a real person, it's impossible to differentiate people that are trying to be anonymous from a bot.

The free accounts being used by the bots are still more likely to be recent creations than created over say five years ago. As the site operator can already differentiate Premium accounts from the free accounts, it should not be that much more difficult to look at the creations date of an account to see if it is newer the X amount of time.