ff.net question

[ratcreature]

I don't always read the announcements on the ff.net mainpage, so I only now noticed the update from January 5th which says "We are redesigning the storymarks (story bookmarks) feature and unfortunately the new system is incompatible with the current setup. If you have existing storymarks, please save them at your earliest convinence [sic]." What on earth are these "storymarks"?!? Do they mean the favorites list? I do have favorites bookmarked that way, though most are old, and more recently I've just used the the story alert feature, but I'd still save them, only it doesn't seem like you can export them as bookmarks. Or do they mean some other feature I'm not aware of? I have never seen the term "storymark" on the site before in all the years. Why can't they call things in their announcements like they are called in the site navigation?

ETA: sholio explained to me that they are apparently something separate from the favorites (phew!). I still can't find the feature (maybe they are already gone?) and don't recall ever seeing anything called that, but at least I won't miss the feature. Also I can see why they need to redesign it, if the feature was so hidden as to completely escape any notice by a regular user.

Comments

[sholio]

AAAAAA NOT THE FAVORITES. I use them all the time! And I'd lose so many old stories if I lost them. 0:

... okay, I just went and poked around the site -- annoyingly, the only way to find ANY information on storymarks was to Google it (way to be unhelpful, ff.net), but I've finally found some references to it, and it sounds like it's a story-bookmarking feature that is completely separate from favorites. Obviously I never used it since I didn't even know about it, so, whew.

[ratcreature]

That's reassuring! Though now I wonder where or what these storymarks are! I'm logged in and on a story page, and the only menu/buttons I see are for alert and favorite, adding to community, reporting abuse and the review link. Are they already gone? Well, at least I'm not going to miss the feature, when I never found it in the first place. At least now I can see why they need to redesign it. Clearly if people who use the site for years have no idea the feature is even there something's gone wrong.

[sholio]

Yeah, I haven't got a clue -- I never knew about it, and I certainly can't find any sign of such a feature now. So clearly, whatever they were trying to implement didn't work, and it's probably just as well that they're changing or getting rid of it.