kolbinski,
If the order is changing between updates, it's either because the site is changing it or because the author(s) are. Looks like the site does alternate it in this case.
author/authorId/authorUrl are the only metadata that FFF is hard coded to keep in the same order as the server lists them instead of automatically sorting the list. That's to make sure the author name, ID and URL lists line up in the same order, which is necessary for the authorHTML metadata to work correctly.
In theory, it should be possible to use replace_metadata to force the order of each list for a particular story.
But there are some odd interactions with \, and the authorHTML generation code that would need to be fixed first. And it would have to be manually set in personal.ini for each story with that issue.
That fix touches some very old code; I want to run it for myself a few days before giving it to anyone else.
This
might be a good enough reason to add special code to allow for author sorting while also keeping author/Id/Url matched up. And if so, what about the
make_linkhtml_entries metadata entries? I need to think about it for a bit.
UPDATE:
You could, in the meantime, use replace_metadata to make that story only have one author:
Code:
[https://www.quotev.com/story/15144388]
add_to_replace_metadata:
author=>^.*$=>PikachuSkitty
authorId=>^.*$=>SnowNadder
authorUrl=>^.*$=>https://www.quotev.com/SnowNadder