iridescent-beacon
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1 year ago It's interesting that you bring that up, because long ago before there was a website at all the backend code actually did do this :)
I have plans to include the chapter number as a hint for refreshing the fic, but it is waiting behind general refresh and queuing/rate limiting support. I'll keep this open until it's actually implemented.
Just wanted to suggest an enhancement for the site. If someone submits a fanfiction.net url and the chapter number in the url is higher that the chapter count in the system it should probably flag the fic to be checked for update. I have almost a dozen tabs open with ff.net stories that have gone 1-3 months without the background bots catching the new chapters. This would automate fetching for new chapters without the system having to continuously check the story in the background.