lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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basicviewer
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lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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Done anyone have a way around the way www.utopiastories.com displays its story lists?

I can find no way to access the majority of stores on the site as its tag cloud based search only displays a certain number of stories, sorted by their ranking. So if you select 'bondage' you will only see the top ranked stories and have no access to the rest. As 'bondage' currently has 1,795 stories using the tag that is a lot of missed stories.

Trying to use a range of tags to narrow the search down is very hit and miss, with the result that many of the stories are no longer visible. It also means that the stats provided by the ranking and views columns are only increasing for newer stories that can be easily found.

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Re: lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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are you looking for a specifi story?they list the top hundred stories and that goes back 10 years.

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Re: lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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No, I'm just trying to read the back catalog. There seems to be over 2,000 stories on the site, but no real way to get to many of them.

The issue is that all that is listed is the top 100 stories ranked by their assigned Ranking number. There is no way to view the next page of stories or order the list by the posted date. So older stories are not viewed and so drop down the ranking and so become harder to find and so their ranking drops even more.

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Re: lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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have you tried contacting them?

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Re: lossing access to stories on www.utopiastories.com

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Let's start with the assumption that we want to read _all_ the stories, and we want links to every and each one of them.
First of all, I choose a few tags and g00gle them:
"bondage site:utopiastories.com" = >4000 links
bondage tag = 1798, so we're ok...

so on, and joining the results we get a collection of all links
(which in fact are 8890)

On the other hand, we could use the site's advanced search and rebuild the database:
- from the first (seed) list we take authors.
- then search for every author (hoping they have under 100-200 stories)
(we could use sorting for longer lists, there are eight criteria that certainly bring up any left-overs in those lists)
- start from the same list and use keywords
- ... rinse, wipe, repeat...
- Those two trees (topological, not Christmas) are more than enough to ensure complete coverage of site's database

Have fun, dig deep,
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