2019-02-13
- Added “Community Series” feature
- Reworked the whole system how stories are submitted and managed internally. Errors when submitting are now better processed and shown to the user.
- Improved the display of story revisions. Added a hotkey to switch highlighting of changes (Ctrl-Return)
- The curator of Community Stories can now merge all revisions back to the base version
- Improved the Category selector and added verbal descriptions to them (thanks to RobinHood70 for his help!)
- Improved Search dialog according to user input.
The most notable change is the new “Community Series” feature (not to be confused with “Community Stories” which were also introduced recently!).
They work a bit like CYOC.net (“Choose your own Change”). When starting a new series (with the first story), an author can now check the new “New chapters can be added to this series by other people (Community Series)” checkbutton on the story’s edit screen.
After that, any person can add new chapters to the series. Each chapter still has to be reviewed and approved by the original author (curator) before it’s published!
It’s up to the author to create a flow for branches and he might even add options how to continue the story.
I realize that the latest Community Story feature was not really what people were looking for, so I hope this is more fitting.
Of course, any existing series can also be turned into a community series (there’s a new option in the series overview for that purpose).