genious7 / FanFictionReader

An android app that improves browsing Fan Fiction stories on a mobile device
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Feaute request - oneshots #27

Open estherflails opened 7 years ago

estherflails commented 7 years ago

Hello! I've been really enjoying this app so far, it has practically everything I'd find important, so thank you for making it! :) There's only one problem I have, and it's about oneshots, or stories that don't have a second chapter yet. Since the app only shows that I started reading a story after I go to the second chapter, I can't tell whether I read a oneshot without opening it at all. Could you please do something about this? With every oneshot I download, the problem just gets bigger. :/ I would appreciate even if the only thing you could do was sort it down with the others when the 'percentage read' filter is used.

I have some possible solution ideas in case you're interested, but I can't promise that they're useful at all, since I'm not a programmer. 1, If a story only has one chapter, when downloaded, the app automatically generates a second, blank chapter so that the reader can go to that one and then the app will show the story as read. This might only be possible with completed stories because of the updates, I guess? This seemes the easies to me. 2, Instead of chapters, use percantage scrolled past to show how much of the story is read, perhaps? I understand that this would take a lot of reprogramming and I'm not even sure it would be possible, but I'm just throwing it out there. 3, If a story only has one chapter (and is completed?), see if over 90% of that chapter is scrolled past and then show it as read.

These are just some ideas I had while thinking about this problem. :) If you could do something about this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my request. Have a nice day!

estherflails commented 7 years ago

Hello again! Recently I had another idea that might solve this problem, and I believe this one would be easier to implement than the ones I suggested before.

When we long click on a story/look at the options when a story is opened, there could be an option that would allow us to mark the story read/unread, which could have a corresponding option in the filter that would let us sort out the stories with either tag.

I hope that you will consider my suggestion and solve this problem at some point. :) Thank you for reading my request. Have a great day!