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In a message dated 5/22/2006 10:44:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rhapsody74@gmail.com writes:

you can sort by storytype, author and review status
I understand what Junomagic is saying--for example:

1) story type only includes: fixed length, incomplete, non-fiction, other
fiction, poetry

2) author - if one wants to browse, one would presumably not know the author
in advance
3) review status - at this point this qualifier only reveals which ones you
have reviewed vs. which ones you have not reviewed.

--for example, if one wanted to read all AU, short story, lst Age, relating
to Elves, for example. The only way to do that is to search "other fiction"
and you would get all time periods, all types (every length except
fixed-length drabbles), all divisions of characters.
--hence you get hundreds, rather than a dozen or less stories.
If anyone knows how to narrow this search, I would be interested also.

Oshun


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Currently, stories are not categorized into groups like AU, Elves etc.
Once nomination season is over, we will do categorizing and put all
the stories into groups. Once that is done, it will be more obvious
how you can see only the AU stories or the stories of a particular
category. But it is impossible to tell you how to do that now, because
there are no categories yet. Once categorization is done and reading
season begins, when you go to the 'browse stories' link, there will be
drop down menus to let you search by Story type, main category name
(Elves), Subcategory (Mirkwood elves / drabbles) or author. I hope
that helps--I think it will be obvious once we get things categorized
and all the drop down menus are available.

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, heartofoshun@... wrote:
> --for example, if one wanted to read all AU, short story, lst Age,
relating
> to Elves, for example. The only way to do that is to search "other
fiction"
> and you would get all time periods, all types (every length except
> fixed-length drabbles), all divisions of characters.
> --hence you get hundreds, rather than a dozen or less stories.
> If anyone knows how to narrow this search, I would be interested
also.
>
> Oshun
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hey all,

I intend to add some searching tools, but I haven't gotten around to it
yet.

Last year, we had some searching, but not by this sort of thing, so I
need to add new 'filters' to the browsing page.

I have a couple of things like that to do, including editing the story
lengths, but I've been wanting to play with my kids the last few days,
instead of working on this.

I might be able to do some later tonight. If so, I might have to take
the system off-line for about 15 minutes. I'll try to put up a note (in
the header bar at the top of the page) about 15 minutes before I take
it offline, telling you when it'll go offline. It'll be huge, so you
won't be able to miss it.

Anthony

On 22/5/06 8:48 pm, "Anthony Holder" <aaholder@swbell.net> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I intend to add some searching tools, but I haven't gotten around to it
> yet.
>
> Last year, we had some searching, but not by this sort of thing, so I
> need to add new 'filters' to the browsing page.
>
> I have a couple of things like that to do, including editing the story
> lengths, but I've been wanting to play with my kids the last few days,
> instead of working on this.
>
> I might be able to do some later tonight. If so, I might have to take
> the system off-line for about 15 minutes. I'll try to put up a note (in
> the header bar at the top of the page) about 15 minutes before I take
> it offline, telling you when it'll go offline. It'll be huge, so you
> won't be able to miss it.
>
> Anthony
>

Hi Anthony,

I understand that there are RL concerns (and I'm sure everyone else would
agree!), and making time for your family is certainly very important. More
important than a fandom award like this IMO.

Thanks for working so ahrd to make site improvements.

Marta

Anthony Holder wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I intend to add some searching tools, but I haven't gotten around to it
> yet.
>
> Last year, we had some searching, but not by this sort of thing, so I
> need to add new 'filters' to the browsing page.
>
> I have a couple of things like that to do, including editing the story
> lengths, but I've been wanting to play with my kids the last few days,
> instead of working on this.

Go and play with your kids! Marta already told me that family comes
first, so please do so! Your work on the site is just fabulous, but I
think, with all the suggestions done so far, these filters can wait a
bit longer. But thanks for everything you did so far Anthony!

Rhapsody