Right now, we only have "Follow", "Favorite", and "Read Later", lists but no "Finished" lists for novels. Currently, all the novels that I've finished reading are simply sitting at the bottom of my "Follow" list and are just adding to the time it takes to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list.

I don't want to place every single novel I've finished into the "Favorite" list because that should be reserved for only novels that I consider my favorite novels.

So, my suggestion is to add a list where you can move novels to after you're done reading the entire novel. To make sure a reader doesn't miss any updates from a novel in that list, any novels within that "Finished" list will be moved back to the "Follow List" where they can read the update and move it back to the "Finished" list in case it's not an announcement for future chapters. 

This new List can be added to the Statistics if people think it's a good idea to do so.

Basically introduce a type of chapter (or a separate place) where authors can make announcements about their book, many authors do this currently by making a chapter called announcement/important and generally it pertains to the future of the book (something like “don’t worry if I don’t post I’m not dropping but I’ll be out of state for a few days” etc.)  currently unless the placeholder is made to also detect jumps of more than one chapter forward this can screw up where you are in a book if you just want to find out what’s up on a book that you haven’t been keeping up to date on. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked on a announcement chapter from the bookmarks tab on a book I’m not caught up on only to never go back because I can’t find my place.

An LGBT+ tag to allow readers to know if a fiction has or not LGBT+ content.

I was wondering if you guys could add the ability when sorting reviews for a story to sort by "reviewed at" progress. Often, quite a high percentage of top reviews were made when a story was trending, or at its peak. More eyes on the reviews then, so those old reviews stay on top. We can currently sort by new/old and best. I'd love a way to sort reviews by how many chapters into the story they were. This way you can see reviews that highlight the current state of the story. It's quite possible for a story to jump the shark a ways in, but top review being a review from much earlier in the story, or most recent reviews being filled with people who reviewed how great the story is based off of the first several chapters and not representative of the overall current story

Comment chains can get pretty long and finding the next top level comment can get tedious. so maybe a way to hide child comments like RES can do for Reddit.

Don't know if anyone else added this. I also use tag as a term to include genres and types. The ability to blacklist or weight a tag, or more, on the 'recommend for you' section so it either doesn't appear or does so less frequently. When looking at the home page, I often give it a glance, but I rarely find anything. Part of that is because some of the recommended novels having tags I find undesirable. For me personally, I almost never read harem or fanfiction, so blacklisting or weighting those tags would allow it to show stories I have higher chance of being interested in.

As for the execution, everything should be accessible from the home page. Besides that, here are the two paths that I think could work.

1. Blacklisting is simply blocking the tag. It would never show up. The issue here is that the search tool can already do this. To make sure the recommended for you section doesn't become useless, I recommend limiting how many tags can be blacklisted. A number somewhere between 2 and 5 might be best. This could be expanded to include tags that must be on the story's, but I don't recommend that as that basically just makes it a dupe of the advanced search. If it is included, this would have to have and even stricter limit than the blacklisting limit for how many tags can be included.

2. Weighting is adding value to tags. Tags with a higher value would appear more while those with a negative value would appear less. It could go from 5 to -5 or something similar. A tag that has a weight of positive 5 will appear more than one with a positive 4. A tag with a -5 will appear less than one with a -4. I think it is important to limit how many can be weighted and what value they can be weighted at. It might be you can have only one positive 5 but two positive 4's. Tags at 1 or -1 would barely be affected. This should allow readers to more directly show their reading preferences without just duplicating the search feature, allowing recommended to have a higher change of recommending something good. I don't know if this is even possible to use, but hey.

Edit: Just realized weighting is practically the same core concept as this post: split tags/genres into primary (limited) and secondary. It's really just the execution that's different.

There is currently no way to dispute ratings.

Ratings bombs where one person goes through, 'reads' one chapter, and then .5 stars every fiction on an author's account, even the dead ones, are a common way to bully authors, because the authors have no way to fight back. I think there should be a way to report odd/trolling behavior for ratings. Obviously it's not a huge deal for big works, but for smaller authors with fewer reads and ratings, it can really hurt.

I understand getting one .5 star review. It happens. But this specific behavior of "downvoting" every fiction an author has ever done is plain trolling, and currently, authors have no way to combat or dispute it.

Something like a button for authors to manually flag ratings bombs by timestamp (requires more than one .5 star in a certain timeframe to escalate) or an auto-filter that catches this specific behavior (more than one .5 rating of a single author's works within one hour) would be huge. 

Because it's odd behavior, an auto-filter should be easy to implement, and if you want to keep human-in-the-loop, include a subroutine that alerts a staff member on authors/accounts where this is happening frequently.

Alternatively, allow authors to dispute/report ratings as they can reviews.

Hey I think we should be able to follow authors so when he/she starts a new project we don't have to search for it you get a little message just like when new chapters are released =] a little like how amazon does but not so intrusive. Maybe we can do this already and i just don't know about it.

By: Malcolm

Note: This idea has been migrated from an older 3rd party system; the original poster's name got lost in the migration process

Rather than always being sorted by last updated, give the ability to sort in other ways, such as prioritzing stories with chapters you haven't read yet. After all, when I go to my follow list, it's to look for something to read, and if I'm caught up on a bunch of the stories that were last updated, but am not caught up on older ones, I end up having to scroll a fair bit and/or change pages.

Similarly, having the option to switch the sorting from decending to acending would be nice, as I consistently forget about stories that I have on my follow list and are completed, but I haven't finished reading yet, so they are constantly at the very bottom of the last page of my follow list.

I had a look at the completed fictions page the other day and noticed that despite the amount of fictions on the site and how long it's been around there have only been 34 pages worth of them. This felt rather low to me so I decided to have a think about ways to incentivize more authors to complete their fiction instead of entering hiatus. With the suggestion to make completing fiction easier has recently been planned I felt like this is probably a good time to make this suggestion too.

My suggestion is rather simple. Create a section which displays the recently completed fictions to incentivise authors to finish their stories for an increase in viewers. I understand that this is possible to find using specific settings on advanced search but a space for the section on the home page or as it's own tab would drastically increase people checking them out.

That said, this feature would definitely be prone to abuse and certain types of fiction will benefit more. Splitting your arcs into seperate books or intentionally writing shorter fictions so you can get that time on the front page would both be issues which aren't strictly wrong but ways to game the system.

There's also the potential community mindset shift which will occur after a while. Whilst there will be more authors aiming to finish, readers may switch to a style of reading where they mostly check out the completed fiction reducing the amount elsewhere. I'm not certain if that trade off is worth it as it might further lower the number of people reading new fictions. Contrary to this though, it is a method that will always reward an author for completing their work which I think is great for authors who never got views through trending and have continued writing all the same.

TL;DR: Section on hompage for new fictions would be good. Could be abused. Might change community mindset. Great reward for authors who didn't get on trending.

Introduce a tag to show when a book is available in audiobook format.

I listen to audiobooks much more often than I read, due to listening while working and driving. I love the sound of many of the books on Royal Road but know that if I can't find them in audio, I'll have to find something else - it would be much easier to search via a filtered list of books that are available in this medium.

Having access to country statistics would be very helpful to have a better understanding of where readers are located and what time zones are optimal for posting to the story's specific RR audience. Other sites do offer this, I'm not sure how easy/difficult it is to implement. Could RR add country data to the available Analytics information? 

I use the history page to continue what I read but there are some fictions which i don't want to see after reading the first couple of chapters if possible I would like to have an delete option because the Not interested button doesn't help me with that

Hi,

I know that mobile app is in the works, however I'm perfectly fine browsing website in Brave for Android mobile. All Brave browser version allow users to opt-in to curated ad program.

Realistically (as Irish user) it gives me 5 bucks every month or two which is automatically assigned between two sites I visited most over last month. So RR and competition ;)

To join as content provider

--- I'm not affiliated with Brave in any form

Multi-selection polls are great for getting feedback,  but currently they're stuck showing percentages. Not the percentage of poll-takers who like a specific option, but percent of all votes. 

I recently decided to reorganise my chapters to give readers more chapters between each POV before swapping. But I had to go by each chapter and rename them so that they followed the numerical order (Chapter One, Chapter Two, etc.) all the way up to thirty-seven. It might look a bit awkward for people stumbling upon that story in the half hour it took me to rename the chapters. 

I think it would be nice, and quite useful, for people writing multi-POV novels to implement a feature that could rename all chapters and upload them all at once. Not sure how it would work, if it is at all possible, but it would be nice!