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Originally Posted by bpothier
Seeing an issue with SOL where "long" chapters are not fully loading - manually see it continue loading when you scroll to that point in browser.
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Just saw this; MR has been very poor about notifying me of new posts lately.
If you click the 'Why' link right after 'Click to Load text...' it says:
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New site behaviour: Click to Read more
Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)
11/2/2021, 8:15:44 AM
Due to abuse by bots downloading thousands of stories in very short time using hundreds, if not thousands, of free accounts, the site has come under a lot of strain and it's costing money in bandwidth and servers to keep the site running smoothly.
So in attempt to discourage some of those bots, we implemented a new measure. For free accounts (that's what bots use), a normal click on a story doesn't load the full text. It loads a portion and then at the end of that portion now you have to click two buttons to load the rest of the text.
So as of now, you can't right click on a link to save the complete text to your computer. Some browsers will save the whole text after you click the button to load it, and some will only save the chopped text. We can't control browser behaviour.
We are very well aware that it's annoying, and may deter some good folks from visiting the site. It's not something we planned to do, but we were forced to do it. As usual in life, a tiny minority of abusers make things worse for the good vast majority.
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The 'Click to Load text...' link calls a javascript function, which POSTs to the server, which makes
another link ('Click just one more time to Load text...') which calls
another javascript function, which makes
another POST to the server to get the remaining text.
The notice says that it only happens for free accounts, can we get a confirmation from a paid account holder that they don't see it in this chapter(
https://storiesonline.net/s/26150:24...he-gadgeteer)?
Considering this site is original fiction and not fan fiction, I hesitate to attempt to work around this for free accounts.