What Has Changed?

We’re hopefully no more than a day or two away from the relaunch of Unknown Tales, so I thought it might be a good time to list details of some of the changes to the site.

vBulletin No More…

I think the biggest change is the fact that the site is losing the vBulletin forum which used to power the community. It is within my plans to build some community elements back into the site, such as a forum, but I’ve not yet completed this…

Chapter Comments

… I have, however, added the ability to post comments on individual chapters. This is a feature that the site had a few months ago, but was removed in an effort to focus on the vBulletin community more… This, as it turns out, was a mistake, so I’m happy that I’ve been able to provide the feature again.

Chapter Edits

Another change is the ability to edit chapters. Previously, authors were able to edit their chapters for 24 hours from the date it was last edited.. So in theory, someone could edit it every 23 hours, and would retain the ability to edit it forever more. Obviously this is not a great situation as it is possibly open to abuse (although unlikely), it means that if a chapter isn’t approved, and the author takes longer than 24 hours to come back to fix the problems, they’ll lose the ability to do so.

To remedy this, all unapproved chapters (and stories) can be edited by their authors for as long as they’re still unapproved, but lose  the ability to be edited once they are approved. Authors can still request changes if they wish, but I don’t think this will happen too often.

Adding Paths

The last change that I want to announce here relates to adding paths to chapters. If you’re not happy with any of the paths currently leading away from a chapter, you’re able add your own path. Previously, if you wanted to do this, all you had to do was provide the path itself, but now you need to provide the follow on chapter as well. This was the original purpose of adding paths, but it’s only just now that I’ve been able to build the required functionality.

Anyway, that’s about it for the major changes. I’m very interested in any feedback that you’ve got, so please post your comments below.