Word counts displayed!

[THBGato]

Yay! Word counts are now displayed under stories on authors' works and on lists (though not category hubs ....yet).

Thank you @Manu and @Laurel

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[OddLove]

That's such a nice thing to have. I like that 2 or 3 page spot (I think it's about 10k words maybe) but sometimes I just wanna get invested in something long. So huge W adding that IMO.

 

[RejectReality]

Where is it now displaying that it wasn't? The only place I see wordcount is on the actual story page, and that's been there for a while. I see nothing on the public works page or on anything saved to a list. Tried a shift+refresh to make sure I had the latest version, and checked all three pen names in case it was a slow rollout, but I see nothing new.

 

[OddLove]

Where is it now displaying that it wasn't? The only place I see wordcount is on the actual story page, and that's been there for a while. I see nothing on the public works page or on anything saved to a list. Tried a shift+refresh to make sure I had the latest version, and checked all three pen names in case it was a slow rollout, but I see nothing new.

Oh, actually, I'm not seeing it either.

 

[Bamagan]

Where is it now displaying that it wasn't? The only place I see wordcount is on the actual story page, and that's been there for a while. I see nothing on the public works page or on anything saved to a list. Tried a shift+refresh to make sure I had the latest version, and checked all three pen names in case it was a slow rollout, but I see nothing new.

It's on the expanded title cards. If you scroll down on the hub pages to the ones in the 'popular' and 'random' sections you should see them below the tags. You probably have to have the beta features enabled, too.

 

[dirk2024]

 

[anthrodisiac]

I see nothing! I am doomed to an eternity of lack of tags and word count. Or until they show up. Whichever comes first.

And yes, I am signed up for beta features.

 

[OddLove]

Same. I went to popular, selected BDSM, this is all I see. no tags, no word count.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Probably a rolling update. They might show up at some point

 

[TheLobster]

Same. I went to popular, selected BDSM, this is all I see. no tags, no word count.

The top lists are one of the oldest parts of Literotica, they ain’t getting updated with anything unless they’re just replaced wholesale. If new features are added, it will be to the profile pages which are comparatively newer.

But no, I’m not seeing any word counts either.

 

[Bamagan]

They only show up on the 'Modern' UI style, not the 'Classic' one.
Go to the normal category hub for any category. Under the 'New' section there are segments for 'Popular' and 'Random' which seem to be updated. They're also on the author pages.
All of that assumes the user has enabled the expanded title cards. That's an extra step beyond opting into beta features.

 

[MrPixel]

I see neither word counts nor tags, and never have. I have beta turned on. I also haven't published anything since the end of January. Dirk's example is from mid-March. Could it only be new works? Just spitballin'.

 

[TheLobster]

All of that assumes the user has enabled the expanded title cards. That's an extra step beyond opting into beta features.

And how do you do that? I see only the general beta opt-in on the options page and nothing about specific features like title cards.

 

[Bamagan]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games* page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left right**, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

*Actually, it looks like they've added that option to the font controls of any story. Back when they were asking for testers it was hidden in the defunct story games, but I guess they've decided to make them slightly less arcane now.

**Sorry, I sometimes can't tell right from left unless I'm looking at @StillStunned 's paws totally human hands.

 

[anthrodisiac]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

Well, that's a whole thing. Now if they could just get Dark Mode for the freaking forums instead of just the stories, my eyes would be grateful.

 

[TheLobster]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

*Actually, it looks like they've added that option to the font controls of any story. Back when they were asking for testers it was hidden in the defunct story games, but I guess they've decided to make them slightly less arcane now.

Yup, that worked.

And I could see the word count as well, for the 2 whole minutes I had those title cards enabled because holy waste of screen real estate Batman! Whose idea was it not to make those cards expandable individually, one-by-one, like logic and basic UI sensibilities would dictate?

Wait, no, don’t answer that

 

[anthrodisiac]

Yup, that worked.

And I could see the word count as well, for the 2 whole minutes I had those title cards enabled because holy waste of screen real estate Batman! Whose idea was it not to make those cards expandable individually, one-by-one, like logic and basic UI sensibilities would dictate?

Wait, no, don’t answer that

Don't mention modern UX design, don't mention modern UX design...

 

[bi_cathy]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

*Actually, it looks like they've added that option to the font controls of any story. Back when they were asking for testers it was hidden in the defunct story games, but I guess they've decided to make them slightly less arcane now.

And now that I've done that, all I can see are the very bad tags I chose for my stories, especially in the early 2010s

 

[bi_cathy]

Yup, that worked.

And I could see the word count as well, for the 2 whole minutes I had those title cards enabled because holy waste of screen real estate Batman! Whose idea was it not to make those cards expandable individually, one-by-one, like logic and basic UI sensibilities would dictate?

Wait, no, don’t answer that

We're also gonna conveniently ignore the bonkers UX decision of putting a story list formatting/display choice inside the full story formatting/display choice. Makes perfect sense.

 

[TheLobster]

We're also gonna conveniently ignore the bonkers UX decision of putting a story list formatting/display choice inside the full story formatting/display choice. Makes perfect sense.

In Lit's world, that's just another day ending in -y.

 

[Bamagan]

We're also gonna conveniently ignore the bonkers UX decision of putting a story list formatting/display choice inside the full story formatting/display choice. Makes perfect sense.

I expect it's still hidden there to reduce the number of complaints if or when the update breaks something. If many of the users still have no idea the feature exists, they can't whine if it has to be rolled back for repairs. Or, well, their whining will be about something else they don't like, anyway.

 

[OddLove]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

*Actually, it looks like they've added that option to the font controls of any story. Back when they were asking for testers it was hidden in the defunct story games, but I guess they've decided to make them slightly less arcane now.

Okay. I went to my Control Panel, then clicked on Options to edit my profile, then clicked on the My Options tag toward the top center, then I scrolled down to "Participate in early site feature versions beta-testing" and clicked on Yes(And saved changes), then I scrolled up and clicked on Explore, then I clicked on Story Games, then I clicked on the a random story, then I looked to my left and got confused, then I looked to my right and saw "A" symbol (Font Settings) and clicked it, then I went down to Story Card Format and changed it to Expanded.

Then I went to my profile and saw the tags and the word counts, and it works on other peoples profiles to.

Jesus man. I had a easier time finding all the hidden skulls in Halo 2.

But thank you, it worked.

 

[ElectricBlue]

To enable the expanded story cards:
Go to any Story Games* page. In the 'Story Game Info' box in the upper left right**, where the info/tags/sharing/font controls are, select the font controls. One of the menus is 'story card format' and that needs to be set to 'expanded' in order to view the new features.
Almost as easy as setting the clock on your stove!

*Actually, it looks like they've added that option to the font controls of any story. Back when they were asking for testers it was hidden in the defunct story games, but I guess they've decided to make them slightly less arcane now.

**Sorry, I sometimes can't tell right from left unless I'm looking at @StillStunned 's paws totally human hands.

What's the point of putting new features accessible only from the Story Games page? That must be the least used "feature" on Lit.

 

[JGittes]

What's the point of putting new features accessible only from the Story Games page? That must be the least used "feature" on Lit.

You can go to any story's first page, not just stories in the Story Games category.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Until I see it somewhere on a page like this, I don't see it at all.