Well this is damn convenient.

 

This is absolutely excellent. Great work!

 

at last!!! awesome

 

This is so full of win.

Did I mention that Raven is god for adding tags?

And you Sir Sesc, are a demi god for adding paring tags.

Searching the library has just go so much easier.

 

Awesome *bows before the gods*

 

DLP is evolving before our very eyes.

 

Tonks breaks the mold by using her last name 8D

awesome

 

If we're at that, how about adding author's name as a tag? It would allow to search for their stories much more easily.

 

Excellent....!

 

Tags

Am psyched at the new search ability.

While a good idea to search through the authors, if you really wanna know, just google the author themself for some author profile.

 

This is quite awesome. DLP continues to grow and become better.

 

Some people upload different stories to different sites. And there is also WbA.

I had some free time so I decided to contribute. I added tags to most of threads in Restricted Section, General Fics, Time Travel Fics and For Review. I decided to add "author:" prefix before every tag because some peoples' nicknames might mix with regular tabs (i.e. someone called sticky would show this thread if there was no prefix). I will try to do the rest of the Library and WbA later, but feel free to help me (it's really, really tedious), just please keep it in the same format as I did:

author:Nickname (note that there is no space between prefix and nickname)

example: author:Amerision

While adding tags I encountered two problems:
1) I was unable to tag closed topics. Logical, I know, but still worth mentioning.
2) Max length of a tag is 25 characters. So far, five nicknames exceeded that after adding prefix (by up to 5 characters). I just cut last letters so they would fit, but I'm pretty sure that raising length limit by five or ten characters wouldn't put too much strain on the server.

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You can just middle-click

I'm starting Humor/Parody right now

 

Gotten to work on "The Alternates" section, following the same template KrzaQ set.

So far, 2 have gone over the 25 character limit. Also checking the links to see if the author is going by a different name. Came across a couple where the name posted didn't match the name in the fic link.

I'll edit in when I am done.

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*edit fu*

Alternates section done...

4 authors names had to be shorten. I skipped checking the links, was getting redundant on my part.

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Firefox tabs are awesome.

Go to section page -> right click thread link -> open link in new tab.
Do this for the rest of the links on the page. Makes copy/paste'ing authors name easier.

 

I'm done with Humor/Parody. Thanks for changing max length, I already fixed all tags I had to cut.

There is another problem, though, and I'm unsure how to solve this one. Some people use different names on different sites and I'm unsure how to tag their stories. Big D on a Diet here and on ff.net is bigdonadiet on ficwad, Jon is Surarrin on ff.net and Vash is Rage Buddha on ff.net. So far, I just doubletagged them, but I'm sure there is a better solution.

 

And then you have the folk who even on one site, can't seem to pick a name or three and stick with them :awesome.

For DLP members, I'd go with the most common name - doubling up if you have to. Vash/Vash the Unholy/Rage Buddha/Machiavelli is first and foremost Vash, for instance. For people whose names change by site, remember you're searching DLP. DLP username takes priority.

For the rest of them... Any story thread that begins [title] by [name] <name> use <name> that even if they have since changed it. If not in the title then DLP review format requires that the OP put title/rating/pairing/author's name in the opening summary - use what's ever there - again, regardless if it's since been changed.

Seems a good way to keep everything on the straight and narrow.

Edit: And right after I post this, I namechange. MASSIVE IRONY BLINKERS. Everything however will soon be vlad... or it would be if vlad wasn't taken at ffnet. Sorry chaps...
</name></name>

 

I finished the author tagging in the Independent and Dark Arts sections. I think that takes care of everything except the Recycling Bin. It'll take a brave soul to tackle the 26 pages of stuff in there.

 

Great job Mike, and brave soul huh?

Edit: That was more time consuming then I thought. I got through the first 12 pages for anyone that is going to go through that. I stopped at the top of Page 13 as I'm going to bed. (6:30 AM here)

If anyone finishes the last 13 or goes further, let me know because otherwise I'll finish later.