Make Chapter Tags on Manuscripts Visible to Readers on Manuscript Main Page

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Manuscripts · Created by sbdrag
accepted
manuscripts tagging content-notes

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

    We're currently able to add tags to individual chapters in manuscripts, but they don't actually appear on the reader/audience end. (At least, I could not see them after clicking around.) This makes it more difficult to make it clear how applicable content note tags are to a given work - that is, if they apply to only a few chapters or the work on the whole.    For example, my manuscript has explicit content - but this is largely limited to small amount of chapters compared to the whole. I have been reorganizing to split my longer work into several volumes, where there are only one or two explicit scenes per volume (if any).    I would like to be able to mark which specific chapters have that content in a way that allows readers to decide if it's too much for them - or decide to skip those chapters, as they do on other sites, to enjoy the rest of the work.    I also have some chapters where characters discuss past traumatic events, and some scenes with detailed food preparation and eating (which can be a trigger for those with or recovering from EDs) that I would like to be able to mark more clearly.     

How does this feature request address the current situation?

    Since there's already a tagging system for individual chapters in place, making these tags visible on the manuscript page seems like an easy way to allow for this kind of tagging.     

What are other uses for this feature request?

    Could also be used to deliniate shifting POV chapters for readers? Which is another feature visible on the MA editing side but not the reader side.    Included a very quick mock-up using my MS to sort of illustrate what I mean - tags could probably fit under the chapters also (rather than besides), but I think it gets the idea across.   

The Team's Response

Thanks for your suggestion! An update to Manuscripts is planned, so we've added this to the list for that update. Public chapter tags in the table of contents will be opt-in, to avoid revealing chapter tags when the writer doesn't want to.
Current score

11/300 Votes · +2400 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by imly2k
    on 2024-09-21 15:57
  • +100

    by Maz_Cat
    on 2024-09-19 17:05
  • +100

    by World Smithy
    on 2024-09-19 15:11
  • +100

    by Gaëlle S.
    on 2024-09-19 13:26
  • +100

    by kaixabu
    on 2024-09-18 16:57
  • +300

    by CrazyEddie
    on 2024-09-18 14:31
    Right now this is solved with Subscriber Groups, but that means that readers might not know that there are more stories or chapters to read if hidden behind Sub Groups. This sounds like a useful addition to Manuscripts in general.
  • +100

    by Michael Chandra
    on 2024-09-18 09:58
  • +300

    by BenScerri
    on 2024-09-18 07:03
  • +300

    by TheDoctor292
    on 2024-09-17 17:39
  • +300

    by Amancham
    on 2024-09-17 15:27
  • +100

    by SeraphRDM
    on 2024-09-17 13:14
  • +300

    by sbdrag
    on 2024-09-17 08:55