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"Discontinued" or "Abandoned" option for Story Status

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RokofAges75:
I agree with Amy; if I'd read a story and enjoyed it, I'd rather the author keep it online even if it wasn't going to be finished so that I could read it again if I wanted to.  There are several stories in my favorites on AC that haven't been updated in so long, they're probably as good as discontinued, but I've invested enough of my time reading them that I wouldn't want the authors to just delete them.  I would appreciate knowing if a story is officially discontinued, but I guess just adding a note in the summary works just as well as changing a setting to show that.

A-RokzStalker:
Yeah, I recently used The Wayback Machine to find old stories that I used to read that weren't finished. It's nice to look back at stuff you once read just to remember it. I get really annoyed when people shut down their websites or delete stories just because they're "done writing" or whatever. I don't care if they finished or not, if I liked the story, I wanna be able to go back and read it again.

I think it would be a great idea to have a "discontinued" option for stories' statuses.

julilly:
Though it's a great suggestion, that option doesn't come standard with eFiction. So it would mean altering the script, which we're already having a fair amount of challenges with right now lol So I think the best bet, if you have something discontinued or abandoned, is to just mark it as such in the summary so everyone can see it at first glance.

A-RokzStalker:
Oh- right.... I forgot about the issues you guys have been having lately. Sorry! lol. But yeah, a note  in the summary works too! :)

Pengi:
That's what I ended up doing, and referring to the new "edition" of the story so that people knew that if they liked that I had another one that will actually get completed that's similar. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

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