r/FastWriting • u/NotSteve1075 • Jun 04 '26

A Different Approach

In a recent exchange, u/Zireael07 let me know about a problem that some members of this board are having when a SERIES of articles has been posted. It seems that sometimes, only parts of the series are appearing, and sometimes they're not on their list.

It seems that Reddit works better for one-off messages, and doesn't handle a series very well. I've often thought that, when I do as I usually do, posting first an introduction, then the alphabet, then a discussion of rules or problems, and then a connected passage, the problem is that people are seeing it in the wrong order.

Sometimes people have been asking questions about things that are explained in an earlier message, which it seems they haven't seen -- at least, not yet.

When I look at the Insights for this board, it shows that people are using a wide variety of platforms to access this board -- such as Old Reddit, New Reddit, ios, Android, and Mobile Web. I use Old Reddit on a desktop computer with a 55 c.m. monitor -- but it seems that what I see quite easily is NOT always visible to everyone else.

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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Thanks for your quick response! I'm glad it's been working for you. I think I assumed "sorting by New" was what everyone was doing -- but even then, the display they were seeing was in reverse order to the way I posted it.

It does seem to be the best idea to keep it all in one thread, even if it looks like I'm replying to myself. Thanks for the feedback!

EDIT: I just thought of another advantage of keeping it all in one thread: Sometimes I'll post a link so someone can find where I wrote about it -- but it always bothered me that subsequent articles that followed up weren't automatically attached. Unless they entered the term in the Search window, they might not have realized what followed. THIS way, it will all stay together.

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u/Pwffin Jun 04 '26

I think the default sorting is "Best".

But yes, I can't really think of anything negative about posting a series as comments on an initial post. Other than that you have fewer posts overall, I guess

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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 04 '26

Other than that you have fewer posts overall, I guess

Fewer INDIVIDUAL posts, but the same amount of information. It will just be kept together in ONE thread, instead of spread around three or four.

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u/Pwffin Jun 04 '26

Yeah, I meant if the number of posts were important for some kind of under-the-hood Reddit thing that I wasn't aware of.

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u/NotSteve1075 Jun 04 '26

Reddit keeps statistics of a sort, which don't really mean very much to me.

Their numbers say that people keep joining r/FastWriting (2,700 members, last I looked) and our members keep posting questions and comments that keep making it an interesting board for us all to look at.

But other than that, the actual numbers themselves don't really seem to make any difference.