So some big changes to the algorithm! (I guess my complaint broke the website the other day. Sorry about that)
So it looks like the weighting goes: premium stories (heavily weighted), then how recent it is, and then some balance of likes/comments/views, right?
Is this where the team would like it to be, or is it still WIP?
1 year
Thought we were getting some McGuire twins at first!
1 year
Otacon0205:
Or Michael Crichton, coming soon “Jurassic Fatties”
Or a remake of Sphere.
1 year
I’ve never read a Clive Cussler book, but if I wanted someone to get fat on a submarine, he’s the guy I’d turn to.
1 year
Otacon0205:
Stephen King. He would be able to create such a great feederism horror story with amazing twists. Imagine a story like IT where kids throughout history are kidnapped by Pennywise just to be feed beyond recognition and re introduced to their family years later as humongous blobs.
Every snack would have 1,999 calories.
1 year
I think Updike would do a pretty good job with it. I like how gets inside a character‘s head and shines the flashlight into the corners.
1 year
ForeverFFA:
Also, I know that fiction doesn't have to be realistic, but I would have expected more initial distress or at least tension with their sudden lifestyle shift, especially if they had invested so much effort in being fit and eating healthily beforehand.
I think this is a great point, and I know that for some people, some of the gratification of WG fiction is not having to read negativity about weight gain or body image, even if in reality people might have a range of emotions. Even a realistic story should be an escape from the negativity of reality, right? Personally, I tend to put a little more conflict in there (or a lot of conflict), which feels true to me, but I can see both sides.
1 year
I’m sure we will get more discussion on this story, but if anyone has suggestions for different types of stories we could look at down the road, feel free to post. Longer, maybe?
1 year
So I was just having the conversation with someone the other day about how stories that focus on a realistic gain need to do some tricks in order to span the amount of time needed to move the plot forward. I think this story does a nice job of that by making it journal style. You don’t need an excuse to skip time, you’re just flipping pages. For a 6-chapter burner that’s perfect.
I like that you see things a little differently from each perspective, even if they agree on most things. I suppose another path could have had there be more tension between the tellings, but this is nice. It’s happy, they’re happy, they have fun. Nothing wrong with that at all!
Nice story, thanks for sharing!
1 year
Hiccupx:
OK! OK! Well spotted, there's a bug, lol. The recommended story maintenance script isn't working. Don't worry, I'm on it and thanks for pointing this out. There's no flies on you, haha!
P.S. ...lovable Frankenstein of a website?
Thank you, and it is! It’s a photo and video board, a message board, story forum, live chat, social media, dating app… there’s no way you could fork an off the shelf software that would do everything you want to do. And it works really great considering how custom it is. But it also means weird stuff happens sometimes, right?
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