Chao- So FF.net has added a new feature to their filter. Now you can look for stories without character pairings. Huh, that sounds pretty interesting. Better to use this than have people initiate flame wars?
YChao- Nope, people will continue to cause trouble all for the sake of a pairing. Not to mention you find it to be a little tricky to use.
Chao- Meh, it's just easier for Chao to look at stuff with the Romance genre gone. That takes care most of the problems. Again, at least the people running this site are thinking about the users.
YChao- Thinking about their users, or just accommodating change? Perhaps these pairing wars are gaining more and more power.
Chao- Or it could just mean excluding certain characters; it doesn't hafta mean a romantic pairing.
Pairing Visibility (Fictionpress.com blog)
Chao- But one thing that had changed that Chao doesn't like is how characters appear in the list after you selected them and published your story. It used to that the first one you chose was the protagonist; now the characters appear in alphabetical order. Chao doesn't like it because it makes it hard to know who the protagonist is. And what's up with the brackets around names?
Paring Mode Part (Fictionpress.com blog)
Chao- As long as Chao can search for stories without adding some variables, it's fine.
YChao- Which means you'll flow of updates will be cut short.
Chao- Meh. That's the nice part about having this blog; it's a place for Chao to complain.
The brackets around the names are meant to indicate a pairing. Example [Joe, Cindy] means that the pairing is Joe and Cindy, but it treats that pairing as one character. So..the pairing becomes the character, in a sense.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I noticed a while ago that I like is the jump feature. It's this little arrow after the title that takes you to the last chapter. i find it convenient for stories I've been following because it takes me straight to the newest chapter, instead of having to go to the first chapter and then choose the newest one.
Chao- Brackets are couples? That might be one way to add more characters, and it looks like selected characters can be in No Pairing as a default, Pair A, or Pair B. One feature that this FF.net user enjoys is the polls; Chao just likes asking random people odd questions.
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