Thanks for putting this together - I've found some great stories through it! As a suggestion, it might be neat to have an option to filter based on at least some number of reviews/favourites.

 

While we're at it, Scryer doesn't list reviews, follows etc. accurately. Take the following fic (the first one on the list with 'test' in summary and ordered by updated)

compare that to the stats on the author's page on FFnet:

they differ in 'time since update' (I loaded & copypasted the FFnet stats after the Scryer stats), and Scryer is missing 1 review, 6 favourites, and 10 follows.



Your Opening Post is also out of date.

has been fixed, (the lack of non-HP fics in the DLP library is annoying, but that's not Scryer's fault), and

has been achieved. You may want to update that, to avoid giving new users bad info.

 

Possibly an error. If I just search using scryer without touching any of the settings it the whole first page of search results are stories that don't actually exist anymore. When I click on the link I'm taken to fanfiction.net where I get an error that says: 'Story not found. Unable to locate story. Code 1'

I checked using the filters and I didn't get this problem. It seems this only happens when I don't specify any characters or whatever and use the 'Best Match' and sort 'Descending' options, which are the default.

 

Could you possibly keep the name + description of the story so users can possibly go and search for other places that host it?

Maybe have an option to hide deleted stories for those that don't want to do so.

 

Could you possibly add an 'All' category to the crossover section.

 

I know that the scryer function for DLP Review Score doesn't work on non-HP fandoms due to the lack of a non-HP library. However, there is this, which is essentially the other fandoms library. Would it be possible to get review scores from there? (e.g. get DF reviews from here, Naruto from here, etc.) I know not all the fandoms supported in Scryer have libraries, and vice versa, but it would be nice.

 

I assume that the All Crossovers (*) was meant just for when Harry Potter is the main fandom? However if you switch to another and then back to Harry potter, All Crossovers (*) is no longer an available option. Then you have to refresh the page to get the option back.

 

I was trying out the new all crossovers option in Scryer but it seems like i can only use characters from doctor who to make options. This was not a problem yesterday am i doing something or was it a small update that fucked this up?

 

would it be possible to have saved searches? I'm going through the list of 'popular and recent' stories, and putting minus signs next to the authors of slash fics in the author search bar. I know I can save that search in a .txt, but I would also like to access that specific search on my kindle.
Therefore, would it be possible to save searches on our Scryer accounts?

 

Could there be an ignore option, like that ffnet plugin? It would be awesome not to crawl through the same 1000000 fics to get the one I want.

Otherwise it works great. Maybe a little more options for time? Like searching by year?

 

There is a rudimentary ignore function already, actually. In the title &/or author search bars, you put minus signs next to the titles and authors you don't like. So put, for example, -"Partially Kissed Hero" in the search bar to remove that abomination from your searches. You'll need to keep a .txt of all the authors and fic titles you want to exclude, though.

 

That's kinda convoluted don't you think? Sadly I have no knowledge in coding, so I don't know how complicated it is to do what I'm suggesting so I can't argue that much

 

I could just be talking out of my ass but, it shouldn't be too hard to set up user database(?) to keep track of Authors/Stories you don't want to see. I suppose when logged into Scryer you could go to Settings and there could be forms for Authors or Stories where you could type in the names of those you don't want to see.

Or maybe even a toggle on the story in the result that you wish to hide.

 

I selected Naruto as fandom with all crossovers. The Character name list went till the B. Even if I wrote it in (for example Naruto) it didn't autofinish it.