The Great Slim-Down

Hey peeps! On a three-day weekend, hoping to get a bunch done. :) 

TL;DR:

• Custom ordering coming to Wiki.
• Categories going away, nest everything everywhere.
• Story tab being merged into wiki, stories will start with No Access perm by default for privacy.

Just wanted to give warning of an upcoming change: after much discussion and looking at user analytics, the Categories (Places, Beings, Items, and Abilities) are being removed, and the Stories tab is being sent back to the drawing board. Additionally, the wiki will be upgraded with custom ordering, rather than alphabetical ordering.

You won't lose any data: everything you've written is simply being merged into the Wiki. Your category content will be dumped into top-level folders of each category's name so your unified wiki won't be a huge mess after the migration. You'll then be able to organize your wiki how you see fit. 

Stories will be merged into the wiki as articles and will be given a default permission of No Access, in case you have anything in there you don't want your players to see. 

This simpler, more flexible wiki will simplify the user experience and streamline development a lot. I'll be working on this over the weekend and hope to finish it pretty quickly. The migration to Wiki 2.0 will require some downtime, for which I will give some warning.

Thanks for all of your patience and feedback! We are nearing the finish line for closed beta, and it's all thanks to the excellent feedback and user metrics gathered during this time.

Happy worldbuilding!

Braden

P.S., for those of you interested in crunchier justification for the removal of these features:

The distribution of articles across categories (e.g., 90% of all articles being Places or Codex), and a huge amount of name duplication across categories (i.e. creating a "Hank's Tavern" Being so you could put tavern-goers in it), indicated that LK users would be better served with a free-form wiki where you can nest anything anywhere. Additionally, only 3% of all articles ever made are created in the Story tab, also strongly indicating issues with the workflow. I still like the idea of a focused space where you can work on narrative, but Stories in its current incarnation is not it.