A couple thoughts on the new site format
2 months ago
There's a couple things that do bug me about the way the site is currently treating stories and poetry.
I do like that it auto loads the story for the reader. I understand a lot of readers out there don't want to download things, and I understand why. There is still some danger to it with viruses, plus after you read a thing once you may not care to see it again and it will be just sitting in your phone or hard drive till you remember to delete it. Not to mention, the painful act of having to use a mobile reader. Let's face it, a lot of big name mobile readers still are annoying to use.
But the way the site reads documents makes mine unreadable, it seems. I double-space all of my writing. I indent every paragraph. But the reader on the site doesn't see those, so it reads my document like a giant wall of text without any indentions.
I then have to go back through and put spaces between everything so the reader can at least see the text. Which is annoying to me and not as visibly pleasing as having documents already indented.
I don't know if there's code or something I'm missing. Writing.com lets me use the tag {indent} but I'm not sure that will work here. Lol, guess I'm saying...
HELP!
EDIT:
So, apparently some of my work has indentations some of my work does not. Some of my work has appropriate spaces between each paragraph, some doesn't. I must investigate further.
I do like that it auto loads the story for the reader. I understand a lot of readers out there don't want to download things, and I understand why. There is still some danger to it with viruses, plus after you read a thing once you may not care to see it again and it will be just sitting in your phone or hard drive till you remember to delete it. Not to mention, the painful act of having to use a mobile reader. Let's face it, a lot of big name mobile readers still are annoying to use.
But the way the site reads documents makes mine unreadable, it seems. I double-space all of my writing. I indent every paragraph. But the reader on the site doesn't see those, so it reads my document like a giant wall of text without any indentions.
I then have to go back through and put spaces between everything so the reader can at least see the text. Which is annoying to me and not as visibly pleasing as having documents already indented.
I don't know if there's code or something I'm missing. Writing.com lets me use the tag {indent} but I'm not sure that will work here. Lol, guess I'm saying...
HELP!
EDIT:
So, apparently some of my work has indentations some of my work does not. Some of my work has appropriate spaces between each paragraph, some doesn't. I must investigate further.
FA+


Thanks!
Vix
I don't hate the new format but I wish I could make the window larger, that would be my biggest complaint lol. It's very narrow for me, maybe 1/3 of the monitor size. Why isn't there an option to expand it... (or maybe I'm not smart enough to figure it out).
Complaints aside, this definitely helps with formats my computer doesn't like, so now I don't have to download them and jump through hoops just to read a story.
That should help. If not, I recommend adding screen extensions to your device... Don't take that literally.
It appears today, I'm no writer, either, lol.