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Originally Posted by tectonictigress
Hello! First off - thank you for everything you do with managing this plug-in, it is truly great, and I've visited this forum a few times in the past to get tips or find similar questions to my own
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Sorry for all the questions at once, I really appreciate any guidance you can provide!
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Umm, okay. Wow. That's a lot.
First, without example story URLs that exhibit the problems, all I can do is speculate. Whereas, if I have actual story URLs, I can try it and see the issue.
That's a general rule around here--doesn't matter what you want help with--I want a story URL that exhibits the issue.
Second, you apparently have a quite complex metadata setup. You may think you've isolated the parts that cause your issues--and you may well be right.
However, if you're going to come to with five different, complex issues at once, I'd like to have your complete personal.ini to test with. You can use the 'View "Safe" personal.ini' button to automatically strip your user/pass settings.
Alternatively, if you are strongly opposed to sharing your settings, I will try a stripped down version, if you confirm that it still exhibits the issues described.
Third, AO3 tag normalizing/wrangling comes up over and over again. I'm not going to go over all of it again, but AO3's decision to allow authors to input basically anything--and any number of anything--as tags makes normalizing problematic at best.
Personally, I consider it futile. But I will help with specific problems.