Story retrieval
22 December 2020 03:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI've retrieved -- and read! -- three pages of favourites comprising 60 stories so far; most of them one-shots, fortunately, although there were a few with fifty-plus chapters. The only one I didn't read at all but just flicked through to download was Gefangene der Angst -- my German isn't even up to reading back my own reviews on the story any more, let alone eighty thousand words of fiction :-(
I'm impressed at the general quality, given that many of those stories were added (by me) years ago. I've never got round to purging my favourites list, but I think they all merit their place. The Harry Potter ones are a bit random -- some one-shots that I happened to come across by chance and that seemed different from usual, rather than reflecting any heartfelt recommendation of mine -- but they are quite good.
Another hundred stories to go, if my intermittent access holds out. (Including some seriously long epics, like Fraternité, Phantoms of the Past and L'Époux Cadavre.) At least this is giving me an incentive to re-read everything, even if it's not quite the Christmas present I wanted!
I can actually live with the current level of blocking, I think; it's quite a good thing to be cut off every so often from hanging around the site, like not being able to play mobile games for hours on end because the battery runs out :-p And on balance it's an improvement on the last weird site bug, which left me unable to submit PMs or forum posts of more than about 240 characters for several months, before disappearing as unheralded as it came.
But not being able to post reviews is awkward, and the prospect of finding myself completely unable to view any pages at some point in the future is disturbing.
Also, my site stats appear to be completely flat as of the 'network migration', which means that either no hits at all are being registered any more, or that everyone else is being blocked from my stories too -- more probably the former, I assume, although if I can't see the stats page it doesn't make a lot of difference!
I'm impressed at the general quality, given that many of those stories were added (by me) years ago. I've never got round to purging my favourites list, but I think they all merit their place. The Harry Potter ones are a bit random -- some one-shots that I happened to come across by chance and that seemed different from usual, rather than reflecting any heartfelt recommendation of mine -- but they are quite good.
Another hundred stories to go, if my intermittent access holds out. (Including some seriously long epics, like Fraternité, Phantoms of the Past and L'Époux Cadavre.) At least this is giving me an incentive to re-read everything, even if it's not quite the Christmas present I wanted!
I can actually live with the current level of blocking, I think; it's quite a good thing to be cut off every so often from hanging around the site, like not being able to play mobile games for hours on end because the battery runs out :-p And on balance it's an improvement on the last weird site bug, which left me unable to submit PMs or forum posts of more than about 240 characters for several months, before disappearing as unheralded as it came.
But not being able to post reviews is awkward, and the prospect of finding myself completely unable to view any pages at some point in the future is disturbing.
Also, my site stats appear to be completely flat as of the 'network migration', which means that either no hits at all are being registered any more, or that everyone else is being blocked from my stories too -- more probably the former, I assume, although if I can't see the stats page it doesn't make a lot of difference!
