Which improvements or features would you like to see added?

3 Aug 2014

Quote by Haineko

That seems a bit much to me.

My 1st poem has been stalled at 925 for a very long time. Poems don't get read as often as stories. Even a low number like 1,000 would be one hell of an achievement

Perhaps. Right now, it would take 5900 views to get on the first page of most viewed Loved Poems.

It would take about 3800 to achieve this on the Erotic Poem board. If we set the number based on those two baselines, there would be thirty badges issued to each.

Right now, 678 famous story badges have been awarded. By that measure, I'd have to agree that three to five thousand would probably be too high.

What ever the number, it shouldn't be easy to achieve. Other than that, I'm fairly open to suggestions.

The Wild Girl anthology need not be read in any order but does take place in the following timeframe

Wild at Heart- 1968. The story of Dani’s Great Aunt Evie.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/first-time/wild-at-heart

Wild Oats. Part 1&2. -2021. Dani is 16 and sets her sights on her stepfather.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-1

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-2

Wild Child. 2025. Dani is now 20 years old.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-child

3 Aug 2014

Hmmm

2,500 seems decent

3 Aug 2014

Quote by Haineko
Hmmm

2,500 seems decent

I'd buy that. Call the badge Famous Poem and have it applied to either. Like it.

The Wild Girl anthology need not be read in any order but does take place in the following timeframe

Wild at Heart- 1968. The story of Dani’s Great Aunt Evie.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/first-time/wild-at-heart

Wild Oats. Part 1&2. -2021. Dani is 16 and sets her sights on her stepfather.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-1

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-2

Wild Child. 2025. Dani is now 20 years old.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-child

3 Aug 2014

Quote by Milik_Redman

I'd buy that. Call the badge Famous Poem and have it applied to either. Like it.

And to keep going with this theme 5,000 can be a legendary poem if they want to add that as well

4 Aug 2014

Quote by Haineko
And to keep going with this theme 5,000 can be a legendary poem if they want to add that as well

How about 3000 and 10000, so it's scaled down directly from the Famous/Legendary Story requirements?

4 Aug 2014

Quote by clum

How about 3000 and 10000, so it's scaled down directly from the Famous/Legendary Story requirements?

We could, but we would only hand out 11 legendary badges. Less actually, because LauraLee has more than one. Getting to ten thousand views is a Herculean task for a poem on this site.

The Wild Girl anthology need not be read in any order but does take place in the following timeframe

Wild at Heart- 1968. The story of Dani’s Great Aunt Evie.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/first-time/wild-at-heart

Wild Oats. Part 1&2. -2021. Dani is 16 and sets her sights on her stepfather.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-1

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-oats-part-2

Wild Child. 2025. Dani is now 20 years old.

https://www.lushstories.com/stories/taboo/wild-child

4 Aug 2014

How about an award for most poems written without winning an award award.

Start at those with 50.

Not that I should have won any.

Lmao.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by Dani
Can there be an option to choose an avatar directly from our image galleries in addition to uploading a picture every time we change it?

Maybe we can just hover an image and select 'Choose as avatar'. It would be really convenient, especially for those like myself that recycle avatars.

You can now choose an image from your gallery when you change your avatar.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by clum

It's not a "genre" though, any more than "Stories written by Clum" or "Stories written naked at my desk" are genres.

Collaboration is a way of writing a story, not a type of story.

I think the ability to have all authors credited is sufficient. I have no opinion on whether it should be posted on all contributors' pages.

EDIT: I guess "Stories written by Clum" could be a genre if I had a very distinctive style which set my stories markedly apart from others (for better or worse). As it stands, that's not the case.

I have to add, it would be very n

4 Aug 2014

Quote by clum

It's not a "genre" though, any more than "Stories written by Clum" or "Stories written naked at my desk" are genres.

Collaboration is a way of writing a story, not a type of story.

I think the ability to have all authors credited is sufficient. I have no opinion on whether it should be posted on all contributors' pages.

EDIT: I guess "Stories written by Clum" could be a genre if I had a very distinctive style which set my stories markedly apart from others (for better or worse). As it stands, that's not the case.

I have to add, it would be very nice to be able to see those I've been credited with as a co author on my page. I'm listed as a co author on the story, but that's it. Is there anyway to add a link to the story on my profile?

4 Aug 2014

Quote by ChrissieLecker
Two wishes that tie together: I would be great if the message list could show more messages on a single page than twenty (perhaps as an optional setting?) and if the selection box could be made bigger. Right now, when I'm tidying up my messages, I keep missing the tiny boxes, opening the message instead. Alternatively, it would be a great help if clicking outside the checkbox in this column didn't open the message.

Both of these are done (30 good enough?). Now I know you'll be thankful, with that dirty little secret you disclosed to me in private in jeopardy laughing6

4 Aug 2014

Quote by Milik_Redman
We could, but we would only hand out 11 legendary badges. Less actually, because LauraLee has more than one. Getting to ten thousand views is a Herculean task for a poem on this site.

I see no problem with that.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by Haineko

That seems a bit much to me.

My 1st poem has been stalled at 925 for a very long time. Poems don't get read as often as stories. Even a low number like 1,000 would be one hell of an achievement

I have an erotic poem with 14,000ish views it's the third most viewed erotic poem on lush...xo

4 Aug 2014

Kinky_Becky and Mazza have even more views then 14,000 on their poems. It can be done and has....xoxo

4 Aug 2014

I still think it would be a nice idea to hide who we follow. We can show up to 30 friends, or hide them all together, but we can't hide who we follow? It causes lag when you go onto someone's profile who follows 100 people or more. So if we had a feature to hide or have a minimum that is shown, it could help reduce lag.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by gav

You can now choose an image from your gallery when you change your avatar.

Thanks Gav!

You're the most competent storm trooper I've ever met!

"What is the quality of your intent?" - Thurgood Marshall

4 Aug 2014

Quote by clum

Fair point. I guess there is a tab for audios because people go specifically looking for those. Do people come on specifically looking for collaboratively written stories? (Genuine question; I don't know).

I don't necessarily seek them out, however I got a notice about a story Poppet did and didn't have time to go then to read, then forgot, was in a chat room and it got mentioned "oh Poppet has a story with someone else and they were in an apartment" I am still not sure of the darn story, at least if I could go to the search and click on collaboration search Poppet, I would not have all 100+ of her stories to look thru.

4 Aug 2014

Do away with numeric voting.

If you like it, click on a 'like' button. If you don't - do nothing.

Vote count becomes 'like' count. I think most of us go by that anyway.

Right now if a story has fifty '5' votes and one '4' vote, it is ranked below a story that has twelve '5' votes. If I want to move my 'twelve fives' up, all I have to do is vote a '4' on the stories above me. Even if it had a hundred fives, it is now below me. And who's to say it's not a legitimate vote. I don't think there is any story on here that is so perfect that a '4' vote could not be justified.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by TraceEkies
Do away with numeric voting.

If you like it, click on a 'like' button. If you don't - do nothing.

Vote count becomes 'like' count. I think most of us go by that anyway.

Right now if a story has fifty '5' votes and one '4' vote, it is ranked below a story that has twelve '5' votes. If I want to move my 'twelve fives' up, all I have to do is vote a '4' on the stories above me. Even if it had a hundred fives, it is now below me. And who's to say it's not a legitimate vote. I don't think there is any story on here that is so perfect that a '4' vote could not be justified.

Thanks for letting me know. Now you can't vote on my poems.

Lmao.

**Comment removed by moderator for being ridiculously and unnecessarily rude.**

4 Aug 2014

Quote by ChuckEPoo

I have also written a collaboration with Lexi (sweetesSins). I wasn't aware both authors got credit. In our collaboration I didn't. Plus, if the collaboration was allowed on both authors pages, it would give better exposer to the story.

I was going to suggest this but you beat me to it (great minds think alike). Having one collaboration story (with Adagio_Sabadicus) that is currently only on my page, I do wish my co-author did have it on his as well. We did decide to post it on my page but I've had several of his fans/readers who did inquire why it wasn't on his (& I told them we could only post in on one page and we selected mine.) Collaboration credit has been a wonderful thing that I know was recently added (thank you Nic & Gav) and it's been very well received by the membership. I know that these changes take time, but I'm sure those who have done a collaboration story would love to see this change. Not all of us have the same "fans" and "followers" & I'm sure that both authors would like their "followers" to be notified when such stories are posted. I know not everyone who follows me is on my friend's list so a "bulk spam1

" message might not reach everyone.

I really hope we see this change soon. icon_biggrin

4 Aug 2014

Quote by daddysweetheart

Thanks for letting me know. Now you can't vote on my poems.

Lmao.

**Comment removed by moderator for being ridiculously and unnecessarily rude.**

I knew I'd get some blow-back on my suggestion but I had no idea it would be so severe.

Denying me the privilege of voting on your poems - that is cruel and unusual punishment.

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4 Aug 2014

Quote by gav
Both of these are done (30 good enough?). Now I know you'll be thankful, with that dirty little secret you disclosed to me in private in jeopardy

yayyy! *jumps around in joy* Oh, you've got no idea how grateful! Let me know how can I express my gratitude! Just, uhm, please don't tell them... Embarassed

4 Aug 2014

Quote by TraceEkies
Do away with numeric voting.

If you like it, click on a 'like' button. If you don't - do nothing.

Vote count becomes 'like' count. I think most of us go by that anyway.

Right now if a story has fifty '5' votes and one '4' vote, it is ranked below a story that has twelve '5' votes. If I want to move my 'twelve fives' up, all I have to do is vote a '4' on the stories above me. Even if it had a hundred fives, it is now below me. And who's to say it's not a legitimate vote. I don't think there is any story on here that is so perfect that a '4' vote could not be justified.

I personally like the numeric voting system. However after starting to vote on a few stories I set up some criteria that I follow before giving my score. i have seen that a lot of people vote '5' en mass with no differentiation between a truly great story and an ok story. i get that you don't wanna discourage someone, but I think feedback should be honest. And not everyone that posts a story on here is an amazing author. Some are just ok and therefore their stories deserve a rating as good. So a like button probably would be better - more honest in some ways.

4 Aug 2014

If you put 3 or less on a story, you have to comment as to why.

Also, condensing the story categories. I think they're a bit excessivein terms of number. Also, it would be nice to be able to put a story into more than one category, for example, a lesbian story in an office could go into both categories, but linking back to one uploaded page biggrin

might help when it comes to finding what you're looking for.

4 Aug 2014

Quote by AriOli101
If you put 3 or less on a story, you have to comment as to why.

Also, condensing the story categories. I think they're a bit excessivein terms of number. Also, it would be nice to be able to put a story into more than one category, for example, a lesbian story in an office could go into both categories, but linking back to one uploaded page might help when it comes to finding what you're looking for.

Your first suggestion has been addressed in this very thread, just scroll a few pages back.

The second, most people add tags for a second category. For example, my story Flat out was in the Gay Male category, but has a supernatural tag.

4 Aug 2014

First, let me say that I think Lush Stories on the whole is pretty damn good. I post my stories here and read those of others here because I like the place. However, there are always going to be things that could be improved, and there are always going to be things that people want changed.

Quote by AriOli101
... it would be nice to be able to put a story into more than one category, for example, a lesbian story in an office could go into both categories, but linking back to one uploaded page might help when it comes to finding what you're looking for.

I am inclined to agree in concept with the above. I would suggest however, a slightly different approach.

Do away with the categories and rely solely on the tags. Make proper tagging mandatory, something the reviewers have to pass on. Allow stories to be excluded by tag from a member's listing of new, popular and viewed. Continue to allow searching by tag. (It would probably be best with the foregoing if tags were predetermined.)

4 Aug 2014

Quote by Poppet

That is fair, but I can also say audios is not a genre, but it has it's own tab, for easy finding. Hence people suggesting a tab for collaborations.
Either way is fine by me, but I think it would be kind of nice to have a tab for them.

This would work. Then collaborations could be found in both a "Collaboration" tab and the tab for the story's genre. So, in my case, my "Neve & the Sandman" would still be in Supernatural, but also in the collaboration. This would work for all those who have done such collaboration stories. This ability to credit the other author has been a great help & it's clear that many "teams" have formed to write some great stories.

No, collaborations are not a "genre" but neither are Audio, Recommended Reads, or Editor Picks but they have their own tab. I'm sure Gav can come up with something (because he's awesome like that.)

BTW... I'm sure others made this same suggestion, Poppet's was the first one I could find.

4 Aug 2014

I'd really like it if stories in the reading queue had to be manually removed. Often I'll take a look to see what I have to read and maybe click on one and then it disappears from my queue, whether I've read it or not...

Or...

Maybe there could be more info about the story itself - all you get right now is the title, not the author, categories etc - maybe if there was more info, like there is on the front page, it would be easier to manage?

(I know, I'm a dumbass, but it would make my Lushlife that little bit easier)

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4 Aug 2014

I'd like to see a worm hole, or portal, or whatever those things are that transport you through time and space, option added to the drop down when you hover over a friend's name. Once you click on it, you're transported to wherever that person is, anywhere in the world. I know it's a big ask, but I saw them do something similar on Star Trek once. Careful with the coding though. I hear it's similar to a black hole. Let's not find out what really happens with one of those.

Thanks Gav.

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4 Aug 2014

Quote by SydneySider
I'd like to see a worm hole, or portal, or whatever those things are that transport you through time and space, option added to the drop down when you hover over a friend's name. Once you click on it, you're transported to wherever that person is, anywhere in the world. I know it's a big ask, but I saw them do something similar on Star Trek once. Careful with the coding though. I hear it's similar to a black hole. Let's not find out what really happens with one of those.

Thanks Gav.

I can get on board with this suggestion biggrin