[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Tharos

A really hard point does not exist. Maybe a small example of my IDs says more:

no:https://www.novelupdates.com/series/a-story-name
gt:http://gravitytales.com/novel/a-story-name
url:http://lightnovelgate.com/novel/a-story-name
db:http://lndb.info/light_novel/a-story-name
rln:https://www.readlightnovel.org/a-story-name

In the end, it was just an idea to make it a little easier for me.

I like your suggestion and I understand why JimmXinu isn't likely to adopt it. But, I do use some custom ids. These are defined using the custom identifier rules (Preferences, Book Details and the Create rules button). For one of the above, I would add:

Key: no
Name: Novel Updates
Template: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/{id}

With that, you get "Novel Updates" in the details pane rather than the domain.

For FFF downloaded stories, these get added via a personal plugin that fiddles with the book and formats it the way I like them. I will sometimes remove the URL if I want to make sure I don't accidentally update a book.