Whee!

[alyse]

Thanks to a mod on the eFiction forums, I think I may have fixed the issue whereby new chapters added to stories show up as recent additions before the new parts are validated.

I'd been eyeing the forums for the last year or so, but no fix, but there was a mod added to the same thread (which previously had nothing in it that worked from reports, and I'm not implementing any mods until I know they work) in July that the feedback on said worked, and which I'd missed before the forum move, because it was added to the old 'doesn't actually work' thread.

I've rolled it out over Wraithbait to test it, and someone's just added another part to an ongoing story, and no update. Validated it, and it updated.

Yay!

I'll give it a couple of days and if it doesn't break anything, I'll roll it out across the other archives.

I may also have a mod that will finally fix the mac update problem, whereby some (but not all) mac users lose their paragraph breaks on uploading. So I've just asked a few stupid questions and we'll wait and see.

I'd been considering whether to update to the new version of eFiction when it was available, and had decided not to unless it fixed this problem, largely because I've modded the archives to something I'm happy with and the changes in the next version are so significant that it appears as though they're going to mean I have to start skins etc from scratch. Basically I was pretty happy with eFiction as is, except for:

i) the recent additions issue (now appears fixed ::touch wood::)

ii) wanting an rss feed (now got one thanks to aithine)

iii) the issue with category allocation to archivists (can live with - it's only an issue for Em on CSI Forensics - sorry, hon, but I'd probably still want notifications of everything :))

So, yay! Geekgasm!