Similarly Tagged Story links

2011/04/13 at 1:06 pm Lazeez 13 comments

Similarly Tagged Stories Links

Today, I added ‘Similarly Tagged Stories’ links at the end of each story for premier members.

The feature uses MySQL’s FULLTEXT indexing on the story tags field in the database. It compares the current stories tags with all the stories on the site and it returns the ten highest rated stories by the MySQL engine. Hopefully, the MySQL engine does a good job of matching stories.

In the future, I may refine this feature by eliminating stories that the reader has visited already in the same session. We’ll see.

If you notice bugs, please let me know. I didn’t test it much.

Also, if you find it useful, let me know too.

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#1 | Written by Dan Daviz on 2011/04/14.

I for one like the similar stories features

It looks like there will be a bit of work for the authors to tag their stories better, because Iam hitting about 60% target.

Dan
#2 | Written by Murgichoor on 2011/04/14.

I have to say this is very funny, at least for me. I have been trying very hard to ask you for the very same feature for the past couple of weeks but just couldn’t find your email id. but alas here it is. THANK YOU, KINDLY.

Just a small tweak suggestion which I hope you will find time and resources to implement. That is rather than just showing the links show some information about the story it self like the ‘Reading Suggestion’ on your home page otherwise one can never be sure if the story is worth losing your 100 a day ration
#3 | Written by Lazeez on 2011/04/14.

@Murgichoor

This morning I added links next to the author’s name, clicking the » (chevron) will reveal the story’s info.

If you need to contact me, click the ‘Webmaster’ link in the top right.
#4 | Written by Themedig on 2011/04/15.

I love the new feature, it’s almost like a simpler category search. Is there any way you could choose to list only complete stories or stories over a certain score on the preferences page?
#5 | Written by Lazeez on 2011/04/15.

For now it’s not customizable beyond choosing to hide or show it. I’ll consider the issue for a future update.
#6 | Written by Murgichoor on 2011/04/17.

Appreciate the story info link makes life bit easier, couple of point though.

First you mentioned click able authors name but it’s not showing as of yet. Only shows the Link with story name and script link with » (chevron)

Next I am sure you did not meant it to be but the similar info box is visible in between a story when there is a ‘Next’ page (i.e. it shows itself if the page is long and broken into two pages but not between chapters) if that makes any sense. I hope you get what I am trying to say. This is not a problem just thought you might like to know.

Cheers.
#7 | Written by ian on 2011/05/01.

i love the new feature but a score tag would be nice
#8 | Written by Knight Ranger on 2011/05/06.

I love the new feature as well.

When refining this feature, would it be possible to list the stories as “similar tags – same author” and “similar tags – different author”?
#9 | Written by bondsman on 2011/05/06.

This is not an extensive review of the new feature but I think it needs some tweaking, or as someone above suggested, better coding by authors. Example: I’m currently reading Lazlo Zalezac’s “Service Society”, paired with it are two of Wes Boyd’s works that I’ve read and one from The Mage that is in progress. The Boyd and Mage works really don’t fit with Lazlo’s work in my mind. I’ve read a lot of Wes, The Mage, and a lot of Lazlo, I like all of them, but their stories are very different in several ways that I won’t attempt to enumerate here.

All that having been said, I like the idea and wish I could offer a way or ways to improve it but none come to mind at the moment.
#10 | Written by bobbyD on 2011/05/09.

Really like this feature, but if possible could a way be made to go to that author’s web page.
Don’t always have the time to go to another story, but would like to read it later.
#11 | Written by Sugar on 2011/08/03.

The similar feature story is an excellent addition to your site. Along with everyone else who wants to make more work for you and for whom great is never good enough, how about a button to store similarly tagged stories as a saved search. Part of the library maybe. So instead of storing a story or an author, you would have a library entry for that set of tags
#12 | Written by ByteBoss on 2012/02/14.

What happened to the “Similarly Tagged Stories” links at the end of each story? At least since yesterday (2/13/2012), I can no longer see them. I found them better than category search in finding stories of interest.
#13 | Written by Lazeez on 2012/02/14.

Yesterday, I integrated the feature with the ‘read stories’ flag and the flags. I thought I did a great thing, as it was working on the test system. Until your note, I didn’t know that it wasn’t working on the site itself.

After much testing and investigation, I figured out the bug and squashed it. It’s working now as expected with the additional features.

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