Hi everyone!

Firstly, thanks a lot for taking out the time to review, can't tell you how grateful I am.

I'll briefly tell you my progress on your suggestions, will try to keep it short.

Again though, since you didn't address this before...stealing stories is not cool. The authors have to agree to crossposting beforehand. It may be harder to build a userbase, but you can advertise on social media sites and attract some writers to start out.

I'll address this first, I don't like the idea much, and this won't be the purpose of the site. This is just to ensure that there are some books for the start, I'll stop it when I get a level of circulation.

Have a reverse search for each option. (Sort by most favorites, or least favorites, most comments, least comments, ect.)

Yup, will do.

Include a way to search by fandom/category. (Right now all I see are Harry Potter fics, but I'm assuming it isn't just a site for one fandom?)

It IS for Harry Potter fics as of now, but this is one of my priorities rn. Hope I can do it within a week considering all the other things there are as well.

The word count slider is a good idea, but it's super, super laggy. My computer is a powerful gaming laptop, and that slider still makes the site freeze for upwards of a minute. (The whole site is on the slow side, but that part especially)

A minute!? Yikes! It shouldn't be like that, I'll look into it.

Story covers/banners. Having a cover for fics is one of the true advantages of Fanfiction.net, tbh.

I'll do that, but it'll probably be after the main stuff.

Custom tagging options, similar to AO3. But if you want to improve over AO3, please, please include a 'search by number of tags' option to see under or over certain numbers of tags.

Yes! Don't worry, it's coming soon, and it'll be better than AO3 :)

Longer summary options, if applicable

How long?

Logged story stats for readers, and writers

You mean for writers right? Where they get stats for books they've written? It'll come, but like the story covers, after the main stuff.

A bookmark or reading list of some kind (separate from favorites)

That's a really good idea! I assume you mean something similar to favorites but private.

Follow this story options to get updates on alerts

Adding notifications for favorited books.

Profile pictures, and additional profile options. (Again, Fanfiction's system is lovely, with completely custom profiles!)

I think I'll put this in the same bracket as the story stats thing.

Communities and Forums are lovely, but most sites don't have them. (Fanfiction again, lol) Any ways for authors to communicate and talk to readers is awesome, which includes features like PMs, or group chats, ect.)

Communities will come first, and Forums later.

I see a Sort By Comments option, but...how do you leave a comment? I don't see anywhere to write one for a story, so I have no idea how the comment system works. (Like deleteable, undeletable, replying to other user's comments, ect.)

Authors can disable comments, and comments are disabled for all the current books.

It's an ambitious idea, but there's lots of things other major sites have that you don't, at this point in time. Keep this sub updated, as the idea is cool.

Thank you, I know fanfiction.online lacks in features now, but I'm working on implementing things other sites have in a better way. Till it's behind, I hope the simplistic and easy design will attract. Thanks again for the review and your help :)

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