This would be far easier if I had access to FF.Net's database, however it isn't really a realistic thing to strive for [transfer from FF.Net].

And yes, we could ask some authors to publish.

 

Hmm...I think that the first version of PatronusCharm will have to only support the upload of HTML and Open Document format files...ie, OpenOffice, and soon to be MS Office, though I believe NeoOffice and AbiWord can write them. Maybe RTF too.

 

Of course not, which is why a "transfer" feature wouldn't be feasable. Sure I could spider their outward accounts, but that wouldn't be productive. I wish I had some of FF.Net's data to run and tweak queries on though...

 

Soon we'll all be using the Open Document Format. Microsoft finally decided to switch to it in its next release of MS Office. The Open Document Format is a compressed XML file, which makes it really easy to read. HTML only needs to be run through a few filters, and RTF...well I'm sure there's a class out there for reading RTFs, it isn't too hard. As for .doc, well, people can save to HTML or RTF, because I'm not going to jump through a hoop or twenty to read Microsoft Office Documents on Linux through PHP.

 

The fact is, someone could also use this feature for abuse. Some person is too lazy to steal the stories on their own, but with the backup function it'd be pretty easy.

 

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I'll say it. MySQL is awesome. Today I tested some of the MySQL queries I use to access data on the site with a huge amount of data...240,022 chapters in the database. As I've done a lot of work on the MySQL structure and creating effective indexes (think of letters in a phone book, narrowing down the possible names to get the number), MySQL only has to scan about 22 of those rows to find the chapter it needs, rather than 240,022. This is a very fast query...less than 10ms. All of the other queries are similar in design, and I must say, it loads far faster than FF.Net.

I also benchmarked the read section today. I found it can handle about 25 requests per second.
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I also have finished the read page totally...reviews, add alerts, and all. Login/Registrations are also 100% complete. Once I have the rest of the pages the rest of the development should go quickly, though the only thing I think I might have trouble on will be file processing, and possibly searches (actual searches, not the list thing...that's pretty easy).

 

For you Mid, I added the Story Bookmark feature. For everyone, I finished OpenOffice format so that people can upload their stories from OpenOffice 1 or OpenOffice 2 format.

Any more feature requests or suggestions?

 

Yeah, you have. Once I have everything up and running, then I'll add it karma. Should I do it on a by-review basis or per-story or what? Just allow the authors of that story to vote on the reviews from the user?