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ll  ·  3236 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit changes community guideliness, bans subreddits.

One thing that I really miss is having a way to aggregate posts from writers and condence them into longer texts. Right now the community volunteers are working on an archive that is a separate website where you can see all of the posts of a story in one place, but they are facing issues with that.

They still want people to visit the subreddit to upvote and comment on the stories to show appreciation for the stories, but the reddit API is a little awkward at that. There is no good way of documenting the universes from the stories expect for Wiki pages. Also the only way to find stories from a universe is to search through a user or the wiki. There are no tags or anything even remotely functional in reddit itself.

I would love to see support for something like following a tag that is the universe and a story sequence. Something like #jenkinsverse for the universe and #billybob for the story. I could then look at my feed and see the stories from those tags whenver they get posted. Maybe I could even have a way to trigger a daily digest of the stories from a tag that would be emailed/pushbulleted/IFTTT/sent to my kindle. Also there is no way to financially help out the writers. One or two of them set up a Patreon account and help, but there is no way to make that built into the subreddit without some crazy CSS magic.

Honestly, if Hubski would like to bring back some of the features for writers, I definitely recommend the subreddit /r/shutupandwrite and it's creator, awk(or awkisopen). He has built an incredible feedback system that ties in the subreddit and IRC to create a way for writers to improve.

EDIT: Sorry for the word vomit, I accidentally took 2 caffeine pills instead of my vitamins. send help