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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Anybody read storiesonline / finestories / scifistories ?
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Opinions?
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I remember this being brought up in the past. I've gotten a few stories from those sites, not a huge quantity, but I have had a couple that were deleted and when trying to download a new story were had conflicts due to ID reuse.. It is annoying when that happened, but I just turned the URL off and marked the story as deleted so that FFF couldn't do a normal update. If it's happening that frequently I could see it being more annoying.
I will point out that forcing an update should never be done unless it's prechecked. I generally just remove story URL and download a new one and if need to remove the old one. Books, particularly downloaded ones dont exactly take a lot of space and I have more than a few old versions from web novels.
I don't think I get enough from there to offer the best opinion, but generally there are lots of issues that crop up in other sites too, like Chapters being deleted and having to remove a story from updates and redownload, particularly on web novel sites like RoyalRoad and ScribbleHub. It's a process that just has to be adjusted to.
While it'd be nice to have something that just works, things don't always just work and if it's a lot of work *shrug* then it might not be worth the time to fix. Now, if it's a simple fix or something that can have a patch job done but old stuff still screws up, then newer downloaded stuff works right maybe that's the way to do it. But you're probably going to have complainers or run into other issues now matter which way it goes.