Not flagging it is the right call I feel. From what I can tell, the general consensus seems to be in agreement that WbA shouldn't be the place for the public to go to read. Furthermore, not all Scryer users are even able to view WbA in the first place.

 

Two things: Could you please add Fate/stay night to the fandom list?

Second, what's the official stance on sharing Scryer with other sites/non-DLP users?

 

It's not a big issue, but the only character listing that matches its fandom is the one for Harry Potter. For instance, if I were to try to find a fic in the Naruto fandom, I wouldn't be able to narrow the search using characters because the scryer would still display the character list for Harry Potter. That said, the scryer's an amazing tool, and thanks for developing it.

 

Huh, how odd. I do have it enabled...

Here's a picture of what's happening:
http://imgur.com/a/WPGR3

But I guess it's not a very big deal. And the issue clearly does lie on my end.

 

This issue was happening to me as well, JavaScript was enabled on my phone.

 

Galaxy S7 edge, chrome, JavaScript is turned on from settings -> site setting.

Edit: You can select multiple fandoms as primary. It didn't update characters after choosing Avatar and deselecting Harry Potter. I reloaded the page with those settings, deselected Avatar, selected F/SN, and then the charactet list updated.

 

This looks to have stopped updating, are FF blocking it or something changed their side?

 

I've been looking for alternate sites for my fanfiction appetite when I found this, but I was wondering since Scryer is associated with DLP, is there any way for the login info and library database itself to be linked to this DLP forum in the sense that one can log in to both sites at the same time.

Also with regards to the advanced search engine, I saw that -slash designates that the summary will contain no slash, but if the summary states that "there is no slash" will the it still be filtered out?

 

Yes. This is how searches of this type work; they scan the text for matches of the query and filter results accordingly. It takes a more complicated algorithm to discern meaning and filter results semantically. Thus, when you ask Scryer to remove all results containing "slash", you exclude all summaries containing the word, including those which feel the pressing and completely unnecessary need to deny its presence.

(To prove this to yourself, you can search: -slash +"no slash". If -slash did not filter out no slash, then you would expect to see results. However, nothing appears.)

As a simple workaround, you can do two searches. First, you do your -slash search, as per usual, and take what results you find. Then, if you are unsatisfied and want more stories, you can repeat the search, but replace -slash with +"no slash", and that will get you anything you missed.

 

I recently found the site, but I somehow always got the error "Confirmation token invalid" while trying to confirm my email. I gave up, but visited again today, and found the link to this thread. Just wanted to tell you about it.
I visited the website on mobile, iOS 10.2, Chrome App. Could be that I'm not the only one with this problem, but I don't know.

And somehow even if it says that after 24h my Account becomes inaccessible, I could still use it.

 

I was not entirely satisfied with what scryer offered and made an alternative.
The main difference is that my app allows to tag fanfiction and exclude it from further searches once you are done with it. I don't have as much search options but it's been working fine for me this last year so I decided to go public.

The app is here: https://github.com/Zeks/ffnet_search/releases/tag/0.5.2
Here is the video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeOrZYx4po
The app is rough around the edges but mostly functional.
Note that app only allows searches in 60+k words and everything you see in the list to the left (once the app starts, not the video) has already been preloaded.

 

I tried making an account on scryer, but for some reason, the confirmation email isn't being sent to my email address. I've tried reloading both pages repeatedly, logging in and out, and nothing seems to be working.

Am I doing something wrong?

 

No it doesn't. All the accounts currently are is saving searches which I'd say is almost completely useless.

 

Nah, just saved search functionality right now. The other stuff I mentioned was just stuff that might be potentially added or is being worked on by Raven, and the account linking is there to pave the way for that.