Linking Of Stories

A lot of my stories are follow-on and sometimes they become a series. Occasionally I will use Part 2, Part 3 etc in a title but sometimes a series of stories of mine might have a variation of titles. That was fine in the past when a reader would be able to see a link to a previous or following story, not now though. I know it works if you have a series title but only one of my sets of stories has a series title. Do I need to now add a series title to each story in my many series OR is the series link coming back please?

At the moment a reader might alight on an old story of mine and not know that there may well be other stories in the series.

Just as an afterthought, even if I go in and give each series a series name, what tells a reader the order to read them in please, date of publication?

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A lot of my stories are follow-on and sometimes they become a series. Occasionally I will use Part 2, Part 3 etc in a title but sometimes a series of stories of mine might have a variation of titles. That was fine in the past when a reader would be able to see a link to a previous or following story, not now though. I know it works if you have a series title but only one of my sets of stories has a series title. Do I need to now add a series title to each story in my many series OR is the series link coming back please?

At the moment a reader might alight on an old story of mine and not know that there may well be other stories in the series.

Just as an afterthought, even if I go in and give each series a series name, what tells a reader the order to read them in please, date of publication?

Stories which are series linked are numbered in the drop down list and also have the 'read next', 'read previous' buttons at the bottom.

There currently is no way to link one story to another if they're not in a series the way you could on v1. I've brought this to their attention and it's on the to do list.

Thanks

Edit: you could always just copy and paste the link to one of your other stories at the bottom of your current story for now

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Stories which are series linked are numbered in the drop down list and also have the 'read next', 'read previous' buttons at the bottom.

There currently is no way to link one story to another if they're not in a series the way you could on v1. I've brought this to their attention and it's on the to do list.

Thanks

Edit: you could always just copy and paste the link to one of your other stories at the bottom of your current story for now

I hope the Lush team can/will fix it.

Looking at the one series that I actually gave a series name to it seems that readers are being told to read the series in the wrong order. On the assumption that 1 is supposed to be the first one in a series and 6 the last one in a six part series, the order shown is completely wrong.

On that basis, I see no point in giving a series name to other existing series that I have.

I will just hope that one day the original links which clearly indicated a previous and next story in a series, actually return.

There is a bug in the series link which should be fixed in a rollout today thanks.

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Looking at the one series that I actually gave a series name to it seems that readers are being told to read the series in the wrong order. On the assumption that 1 is supposed to be the first one in a series and 6 the last one in a six part series, the order shown is completely wrong.

On that basis, I see no point in giving a series name to other existing series that I have.

I will just hope that one day the original links which clearly indicated a previous and next story in a series, actually return.

How do you make stories that used to be linked together into a series? I miss the "read next" links.

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How do you make stories that used to be linked together into a series? I miss the "read next" links.

At the moment I am getting into the habit of making mine 'Part 2' 'Part 3' etc. I miss the read next links too, I think they were very helpful and very necessary.

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How do you make stories that used to be linked together into a series? I miss the "read next" links.

1. Visit a story you want to link.

2 Edit it.

3. Scroll down and type the name of the series in the Series box. If it already exists, it'll match as you type.

4. Select it if it exists, or click Create {series name} if it doesn't This step is important or it won't be assigned properly. You can tell when it's done because it appears beneath the Series box on its own, like tags do.

5. Submit your story. Note that at present this results in the chance it'll get diverted to the moderation queue (I think it depends if there are blank lines after the story or it does some "tidying" of spacing on submission, which makes it think the story is "different" than before - not sure). If you just add a brief mod note 'Adding series name' or something, then we'll know that's all you've done and can approve it quickly. Note also that if that happens, the published date that's shown changes to 'now' even though the story remains in the original order in your stories page. I think that's an opportunity for improvement and I'll mention it to the developers.

Once your stories are linked you can visit the series page to reorder each set.

Hope that helps