New Feature: Tag Feed
I haven't done one of these in a while so it feels good to come out with something new. You're now able to subscribe to tags and view the latest updated stories for every tag you are subscribed to in your tag feed. So for example, subscribing to the exo, romance, oneshot, shinee, and kai tags will allow you to view the latest updated stories with any of those tags in your tag feed. Your tag feed link is in your top bar marked as "Feed" or in the menu on mobile.
There are a few caveats for now since this feature is experimental:
The main one is that you're limited to 25 tags that you can subscribe to (50 for gold members). I'll need to wait and see what the servers can handle since compiling a list of stories from 25 different tags is a much more computationally intensive process than your typical 'latest stories' query.
Also, the list of stories that each tag can "remember" is capped at 25 stories. In effect, it's like seeing the front page of every tag you're subscribed to in your feed.
Another slight caveat is that a newly updated story will only show up on your feed if the author updated their story while already tagged with one of your subscribed tags. Their story won't show up on your feed if they first update their story, then decide to add more tags afterwards. So if you want your story to show up on people's feeds, fully tag up your story first then do your update.
Despite the limitations, I think the feed will be useful and convenient to a lot of people. If the servers can handle it and if people like it enough to use it all the time, I'll look into increasing the limits. We'll see how it goes.
And tacking this on at the end: work has started on the Asianfanfics mobile app! The first version is going to strictly be a reader app where you can log in, browse through the latest stories and updated tags, read through your subscriptions, bookmarks, labels, and now the tag feed, as well as save stories (most of that is actually done already!). No writing, commenting, or messaging yet (that's for a later update). I'll post another update about the app in a few weeks and maybe do a preview. Check out the app fundraiser if you want to help support the app development and earn the App Founder badge. We're almost there!
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