Hello -
I've read the post below and don't quite undestand what you are saying. You said, "OMC/OFC stories are in their respective pair type categories." What is a 'pair type category'?
I do hope it isn't just the male/female category under Harry Potter because as it stands now, it has 106 pages, not stories, but PAGES of stories to wade through.
If one is supposed to hunt for Snape/OFC stories, for example, one is now at the mercy of the author's summary to know if the story contains the characters one is looking for. I can see several stories where the summary tells the reader nothing about who is in the story, because the author thought the reader would know from its specialized category, to wit, Snape/OFC or Lucius/OFC - which has now been erased.
If this is just a byway toward putting back the OMC/OFC categories you may disregard this comment. If you plan to leave all the OMC/OFC stories in the amorphous, gigantic Male/Female category then I would like to point out what a disservice it is to the readers. And to authors who depend on readers to find their stories with the characters the readers prefer.
Please reset the OMC/OFC categories in the Harry Potter section so the readers don't have 106 pages of stories to scan for characters they want to read.
I can't really understand why these categories were removed unless it was to make life simpler for the programmers. Should the programmers be the ones to decide how literary categories should be organized? Libraries fought this battle for years as technical types organized the world of information without understanding how people look for information. Please don't let that happen here.
Thank you for letting me express my opinion and provide some views on how the site is used. I appreciate your taking the time to 'listen'.
LaBibliographe
http://hp.adult-fanfiction.org/authors.php?no=1296799417
labibliographe@yahoo.com
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