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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Oct 30, 2005.

  1. DGD

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    Cool. Option 2.
     
  2. RagefulLlama

    RagefulLlama Seventh Year

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    You should also be able to search each catagory individually ie. (all humour fics whether azkaban or independent etc. and similarily the other way around.)
     
  3. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    It will.

    Either way, I need the second part categories. The first part will be mostly FF.Net categories. The second part has this so far:

    Azkaban
    Dark Arts
    Independent
    Powerful
    Timetravel
    Crossover

    I need more.
     
  4. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I'd loose the powerful, as almost all independants make him powerful-super powerful.

    Severitus, Post Hogwarts, Post HBP, Post OOTP/Pree would be the categories I'd most like to see. The first two to avoid, the last to read. Possibly add a Father other then James category of some sort
     
  5. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Not all Independents make him Powerful though, thats an assumption, and there are alot of super-power stories where Harry is still with Dumbles etc.

    I think I might add these:

    Severitus
    Alternate Universe
    Alternate Father

    Any more? Though the pre/post thing might be better suited as a "time" rather than category. I think I'll make the setting the post/pre thing.
     
  6. Necrule Paen

    Necrule Paen DLP Elite DLP Supporter

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    You mean be able to sort stories by where it starts from? Intriguing. Are you going to have a pre/post for every book or only where that sort of thing is prevalent? I don't find many Post SS or CoC stories so you might want to hold off on putting those in until you know there is a need for them.
     
  7. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I added the settings as so:

    Pre-SS/PS
    Post-SS/PS
    Post-CoS
    Post-PoA
    Post-GoF
    Post-OoTP
    Post-HBP
    (empty value for 7th book)
    Post-Hogwarts
     
  8. DGD

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    What about a category for the ones where his brother/sister are the boy/girl who lived?
     
  9. Sepanto

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    If you put slash in the site, put it in a diffrent catagory, since it bugs me as hell to see slash.
     
  10. Antivash

    Antivash Until we meet again... DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    weve already covered this i think...
     
  11. RagefulLlama

    RagefulLlama Seventh Year

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    I'd change the 'powerful' option into something like out God-like or something similarily impressive. Most stories have Harry becoming powerful, when I see the 'powerful' section I see it as more merlin level and what not.
     
  12. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Slash will be in the same categories, however it won't be displayed unless the dropdown for slash stories is either set to "Slash only" or "Both". Neither is default.
     
  13. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Maybe something that let's us choose a pairing we don'twant? Like, everything except H/D.
     
  14. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I'm somewhat hesitant to do that, as it would require users to enter their pairings, and that would require them to enter their pairings in textboxes, and that would sort of ruin the uniformity I was going for. Either way, you can select not to list slash.
     
  15. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Probably already got this but since I cant be fucked going back to read and find out... well, on portkey it has an option where the author can put 'Story In-Progress, Complete, Hiatus, ect' and you can see if its complete or whatever before even clicking on it. And then you can search for stories that are only Complete, only In-Progress, ect, ect.

    Yeah, well, I think thats good.
     
  16. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Already on the drawing boards...and already inputted into the database schema as well as having a function to convert the status numbers into full-text "Work In Progress", "Complete", etc.
     
  17. RagefulLlama

    RagefulLlama Seventh Year

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    I'm curious is PC only going to have Harry Potter Fan Fics or will it grow to cover others (DBZ, Naruto, Bleach etc.)
     
  18. Midknight

    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I'd keep it within the confines of HP. Or go back and do others later if the site gets popular and people want other categories.
     
  20. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    Only Harry Potter, though Crossovers will be allowed as long as they are crossed with Harry Potter.
     
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