A few new updates on the Literotica iPhone Site:
1. The member search feature is now live.
2. The categories are now displayed on the New Stories page, as requested by everyone. 🙂
We’ve also got some more improvements coming to the main Literotica site. Everything seems to take way longer than we thought it would (as it has been since Literotica started), but we are making good progress on a lot of new features and design upgrades.
Enjoy your summer and check back soon!
Just a quick summer update to let everyone know that the Literotica iPhone site went live on Friday, the same day as the worldwide launch of the new 3G Apple iPhone. This is the first version of the iPhone site, and it’s pretty much in BETA still, but we think it’s a good start. In the future, we’ll be adding more features and tweaking it to improve the existing features.
If you have an iPhone, the mobile phone site can be found here:
Let me know if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements.
Thanks! 🙂
Sorry for not updating this blog too often, but we have been working hard behind the scenes on some new Literotica stuff. Better that I’m working than posting, I guess. 🙂
Today’s new feature isn’t a huge one, but we think it’s a good one. We have added a new block to the right side of some stories, above the “Similar Stories” block. The new block is called “Also In This Series“. You can probably guess what it’s for by the name, but I’ll explain it anyways, just to be annoying.
There are many many authors on Literotica who submit stories or novels in parts, as they write them. So, they will submit chapter 1, then two weeks later chapter 2, then two years later chapter 105, etc. One issue with this has been that the Literotica site didn’t tell readers when there were other chapters – either before or after the one they are reading. But all of that has changed, starting today!
Literotica will now scan all stories by each author and try to determine if each story is part of an ongoing series. If the story is part of a series, then the “Also In This Series” block will appear on all stories in that series, showing a link to all other stories in that same series. Here is an example of a story that is part of a long series. If you scroll down and look on the right side of the page, you will see the links to other stories in the same series.
We hope that this small new feature will be very helpful to readers when navigating the site. We also hope that it will help authors to get more readers following their longer ongoing works. We have more ideas to improve and expand the feature in the future. One obvious future improvement is to show “series” works together on each author’s submissions page. More on that, and other planned improvements, later. For now, please let us know if you find any bugs with the feature or if you have suggestions for improving it.
Take care and thanks for reading — and writing! 🙂
We have launched a new version of the Literotica Favorites Portal.
The new design matches up more closely with the rest of the Literotica site. We’ve also moved the stories to the left side of the page and the authors to the right side of the page and made a few other minor changes.
Some recent projects, like the new Literotica Tags portal and Search, are intended to improve the functions of the page/feature. In this case, with the Favorites Portal, the changes are more about making it look like a part of Literotica.com. There are so many different pages and features on the site, each designed at various times over the last 10 years. One of our goals for 2008 is to try to bring everything together to give the site more of a unified look and feel. In theory, the site should be easier to use if all of the pages are similar. We’ll see! 🙂
As always, please let me know your thoughts on the changes and more updates coming soon.
The Literotica Story Tags portal has been updated. The new version of the feature is live on the site now. This version is redesigned and includes the ability to browse stories using multiple tags and a way to easily add and remove tags from your search.
Please take a look and let us know what you think and report any problems you find. As with other updates, we’d also like to hear/read suggestions for the next version.
Thanks and enjoy!
Just a quick update on the latest Literotica features. In the next few days we are getting ready to roll out a few new things in BETA. The first of those just went live on the site: Similar Stories
Take a look at this Literotica story to see what it looks like.
At the bottom right of the story, below the voting element and to the right of the comment element, there is a small section showing stories that are related or similar to this story.
Please take a look at the feature and let me know what you think. We hope that it will be another tool to help readers find what they are looking for within the ever-growing collection of published fiction at Literotica.
More new feature launches coming very soon. Check back! 🙂
Just a quick update to let you know about a cool newspaper article someone sent me a link to. The Stanford Daily is an independent newspaper produced for Stanford University. In the paper a couple of days ago, one of the writers shares her love of Literotica.com. Here is a short excerpt of the article by Roxy Sass:
There are many places a girl can have fun, but Roxy’s personal favorite is Literotica.com. Oh, Literotica, with your carefully indexed stories in easy-to-understand categories, how Roxy loves you. As best as Roxy can figure, the authors are all amateurs who take time out of their days to help keep her hot and bothered.
You can read the full article at the Stanford Daily website.
Thank you to the person who sent me the link and more updates coming soon.
I was browsing You Tube the other day and I was surprised to find a video about Literotica! It’s actually from 2007, so it may not be news to some of you, but I thought it was cool. The video is apparently part of a show called the Daily Tang! It features model Veronika Raquel talking about Literotica. Here’s the video, check it out for yourself.
If you have a YouTube account, you can vote on the video to share your love for Literotica. The Daily Tang! website is here. Thanks Veronika! 🙂
Take care everyone!
Hi Everyone! I appreciate all of the suggestions that you have been sending in and posting, both here and on the Lit forum.
This will just be another quick update on the recent changes to the Literotica story page Voting Element and Add To Favorites buttons. So far, everything seems to be working fine. It’s still early, but voting seems to have increased slightly after the changes were launched on the site.
Since the launch, we have made the following additions changes, based on user feedback:
Voting Element:
1. The stars now have numbers on them, to link them more closely to the previous system where each vote was a number between one and five.
2. The text on a few of the votes has been changed. The current text for each vote is:
Add To Favorites Button:
1. With the launch of the easy to use buttons, we’ve seen an increase in the number of registered users adding items to their Favorites List. Because of this, and based on current and previous user feedback, we have increased the number of “Favorites” that each user can have from 10 to 25 – for both Stories and Authors.
Additionally:
1. There has been some concern that the new voting system may result in a slight drop in the overall vote scores because readers may only give a “5” to stories that they think are truly exceptional. I don’t know yet if the voting scores will go down at all based on the new system, but even if the middle did change slightly, it may not be a bad thing if the stories that score close to perfect are ones that readers felt were above and beyond the average.
2. We have had some questions asking about changing the voting system from a 1-5 system to a 1-10 system. That is something that we may consider for the future, but we don’t have immediate plans to do it.
3. Some members have been asking about the Public Comment Element (the system where you leave a public comment on a story) voting versus the new on-page voting element. We are already working on standardizing those two systems and, once the Public Comment Element is updated, readers will be able to leave a comment with or without voting.
I think that’s all I have for now. Just wanted to give everyone an update on what I’ve been working on and what’s concerns I’ve been hearing. Thanks for the ongoing feedback and another update should be coming soon! 🙂
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