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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:55 am

... Huh? Yeah it's long, but most of it is giving more info on the stories. I just don't want to specify certain things... If I have to I will, but I don't want to.

Anyway, no one seems to know the formula... great...
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Spokavriel » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:03 am

Maybe there isn't one.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:05 am

Well that is just... weird...
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby PCHeintz72 » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:25 am

Noy Telinú wrote:What counts?

It's just because I'm lazy and don't want to clarify my profile.


Ehhh... .
Author has written 10 stories for Ranma, Sailor Moon, X-Men: Evolution, and Y: The Last Man.

It has a count and a order (whatever that order may be)...

I cannot speak for others, but I barely glance at it for most personal profiles, I know many never see them at all.

Partially I ignore tham due to fact I see them as inaccurate more often than not, as a lot of authors I track either do not place all their stories on FF.NET, or they've removed stories, making that line worthless for my own personal needs.


As for your profile... besides the autogenerated stuff put whatever you want in it, that is what it is there for... but I prefer to mostly follow the actual stories.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:47 am

Ooh... yeah, I look at them when I come across authors.

Perhaps its because I have all of them be Ranma fics?
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Spica75 » Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:22 am

Noy Telinú wrote:Ooh... yeah, I look at them when I come across authors.

Perhaps its because I have all of them be Ranma fics?

Doubt it.

Just checked my own page and... Well, the #1 is from my first story, #2 and #4 is from my 2nd story, and #3 and #4 is from my 3rd story... Hard to say for sure how the order was created...

For you I say, dont bother caring about such a completely unimportant detail! It simply doesn´t matter.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:10 pm

Doesn't matter too much anyway. I'm too busy to post it any time soon.

And while it's a little detail, it bothers me that I can't change it if I want to.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Té Rowan » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:21 pm

I think the primary key is publishing order.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:08 pm

Then why is SM ahead of X men when X men is a year older than my SM fic?
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Cheb » Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:59 am

I t cou ld be depending on the database internal structure in some convoluted order. For example, on the order the series were added to the list. Since the series you choose is most probably stored as an integer index to the list of story categories.
Or it could be something dependent on some form of caching... There's no way to tell.
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Té Rowan » Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:39 pm

@Noy -- Do you get a consistent good fit by first listing the main stories in publishing order and then appending the crossovers, also in publishing order?
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Noy Telinú » Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:32 pm

It could be that... haven't checked too much...
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby PCHeintz72 » Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:33 pm

I got curious, so I pulled the code for a personal profile and tore apart the ource.

Interestingly enough... it seems it is a straight prebuilt string and not an interactive database access... which makes sense from a speed standpoint. That implies that at least in theory they could get out of sync though I've never heard of such... realistically, I would imagine it is rebuilt upon each change to your account, an upload, download, profile update, etc...

I have determined the following:

It is not in order by size of fandom,
It is not in order by internal code number FF assigns non-crossover categories,
It is not in order by internal code number FF assigns stories,
It is not in order by fanfiction category type (cartoon, anime, etc...),
It is not in order by name,
It is not in order by rating,
It is not in order by number of chapters,
It is not in order by word count,
It is not in order by reviews,
It is not in order by either normal or reverse published date,
It is not in order by either normal or reverse update date,
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Re: Fanfiction dot net story order

Postby Cheb » Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:53 pm

it seems it is a straight prebuilt string and not an interactive database access

Don't forget, FFnet has a complex structure involving internal caching. It has layers. Any changes you made take effect some minutes later.
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