I asked about this years ago; people were able to explain items that were marked "updated" or "new", or showed that comments had been added, but the vast majority of the entries on the Track pages don't have any of that. The ones on my pages are (presumably) stories that I've read at some point in the past twenty years, but some are showing relatively recent dates even though I literally haven't looked at them in years.
And as I said last time, it's not just me. Deceased authors/readers have recent track page entries -- Wren Phoenix, to name one, has more than three pages of them that are less than a year old, and only the first seven have "new" tags. Some of them are multi-part stories, but not every part is there: her Somewhere Else Entirely list shows chapters 23, 24, 37, 38, 42, 46, 58, 60, 61 and 62. Angel O'Hare has more than a page of entries over the couple of years; similarly, a number of them are Sarah Carerra chapters, but not in sequence and with some of them missing.
Conversely, there are authors here, recent and otherwise, who don't have any stories on their Track page except their own. Marianne G seems to be one, though I only went through her most recent ten pages. Eolwaen is another. Michelle La Zorra, Aidra.
Clearly there's something here I don't understand, and I'd like to -- if only to be able to determine whether some no-longer-active authors are still monitoring the site.
Can someone help?
Thanks,
Eric
I'm not an administrator so take this for what's it's worth
Track page follows all pages that a poster has either created or commented on.
Any new update on that page will come up as changed page.
Most often that is because someone (else or same person) has posted a new comment or edited an old one. Thus updates on departed authors's stories.
Other reasons could be administrative changes, if I have understood correctly.
If an author edits the original text that is also a tracked change.
At least this is how I have understood things.
Pretty much
Any change to a page or a page status may be tracked. One problem has been that every time we update some of the core software, tracking stops working. The code is fragile.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Whoops!
Somewhere Else Entirely is mine, not Wren's. How that happened Idunno.
I just had a look at my own "Track" pages and everything seems to be in order there: I know that Eric was reading SEE from the start and his comments have, rightly, come out in my track list, but that list is not the same as the chapters you mention above. Maybe what you are seeing is from when Wren was reading SEE and commented on it? If you're looking back down those track lists, what are the dates on those entries?
Or maybe something flaked?
Penny
Sorry if I Wasn't Clear...
I was saying that Wren's recent Track pages included chapters of SEE, but not every chapter -- and as you note, not the few that I commented on recently. All those SEE chapters on her Track are dated "1 month 2 weeks ago". My own Track page shows ten equally random chapters dated that same week, but none of them are the same as Wren's listing.
And all the other SEE chapters -- I read them all -- aren't showing up anywhere on my Track, except for one dated the previous week. Neither are "What Milsy Did". Four chapters of :"Julina of Blackstone" are showing -- again, I read them all within the past few weeks -- and five of VoV -- I've read the first 75 so far.
If anyone's wondering, I didn't read any of them using the "printer-friendly" setting -- which would have explained their not showing up -- because that would have eliminated the comments, which on SEE are almost as extensive as the chapters themselves. albeit somewhat more repetitive. And I gave a kudos to every chapter I read, so the selection isn't based on that. I have a "persistent sign-in," so I wasn't reading any of them anonymously. I've run out of theories, so I'm hoping Erin or Piper can explain it.
Eric
Comments
I don't think it flags a chapter for tracking if you just kudo it, since that would bury everyone under a huge pile of references.
To get an entry into track you have to make a substantive change - either, as a reader, you made a comment, or, as the author or an editor, the text was changed or updated.
Once a chapter gets into the track list you'll get a "new" notification every time someone else makes some kind of change.
Penny
SEE chapters on her Track are dated "1 month 2 weeks ago".
That doesn't mean that Wren made any comment on that SEE chapter on that date, but that she had at one time and some else has now commented on it. It shows up on her "Track" page because it is assumed that if she commented that she would want to know that some else commented, perhaps a reply to her comment. The track function has no way to know that Wren is no longer with us.
Hugs
Patricia
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Ich bin ein femininer Mann
You're Right...
The chapters shown (in SEE, JoB and VoV) are all ones I commented on -- didn't think I'd made that many comments.
So far, all the other stories I've checked have my comments too. The 2006 story on my second Track page (Timeout 1, by John in W) had a comment -- not mine -- added on June 26 of this year.
But the ones from 2016 (Fluidity in Space, Parts 1 and 2, by JenniBee) don't show new comments by anyone since 2020, though they're on my Track page as "1 month 2 weeks". Same Track date for Angry Diary 6 of 6 (2015) by Karin Bishop, showing nothing new since 2017. Ricky's Kate Part 6 (2011), no comments since 2020, Track page "2 months 3 weeks". I'd assume if the stories were updated, there'd be a red "update" flag like the one on Sussex Border Stories, and if somebody edited an old comment after all this time, it'd get a new date. So I still don't have the right answer, though I know more now than I did -- thanks, all.
(173 Track pages! That suggests that I've made more than 3000 comments here since 2006, over 150 a year. That's a lot more than I thought. That page count is one reason I thought it was counting stories I'd read rather than comments.)
Eric