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Submitted by Eric on Thu, 2025/11/06 - 6:55am

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Just thought I'd mention this: I'm not sure whether it bothers others or just me.

Rose's Mobius isn't the first story I've read here where I've read Chapter 1 without realizing there was a Prologue (although most of those don't separate the two postings by five weeks). it's just the most recent.

Two ways I can think of to avoid that situation, if you want all the readers to know what's going on, are to combine the Prologue and Chapter 1 into a single post -- "[Story Title] - Prologue and Chapter 1" -- or to put a link or at least a sentence at the top of Chapter 1 informing people that there's a Prologue. Right now we generally don't get that information until we get to the bottom of the page and see [Story Title] Prologue as the previous entry. (Unless you're looking for it in the right-hand column. Maybe I need to start doing that every time I begin reading a new story.)

Eric
(not an admin or anything, just a longtime reader with a suggestion)


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