Different Versions of Same Articles in Read.Cash

I suppose so. I have several communities myself, so I always publish in one of my own - and then I submit at the same time as publishing. But otherwise I think it's best to do as you say.

If a community is inactive, the articles being there stays there, if nobody removes them. However, if a community is deleted, there will be problems, (I have deleted communities two times, so I have experience of that.) The articles disappear. That is, they still remain in the system, but they cannot be found or opened. It's necessary to contact Read.cash and get their manual help to restore the links. (At least it was so when I did it.) Thus it is not good to delete a community with articles in it, it is better first to remove the articles so the community is empty when deleted.

I always thought of the Communities, like the Chambers and the Channels on Noise.Cash. I thought it was great way of organizing your content, if like me, you write about variety of topics.

Now I'm scratching my head. Some of the communities I used to submit to have disappeared. I'm not so sure I should Submit my articles to any community anymore. I'm thinking that I should go back and remove all of my articles from the various communities. It seems less confusing that way.

I also write about a variety of topics, and I started communities a long time ago to better organize my own material. A change in the rules here, made me open them for selected others, although you see a couple of my communities contain only a few articles not by me (especially that about Japanology and that about health). In some others, I have a more open policy. You can see all my communities here: https://read.cash/@Mictorrani/my-communities-their-rules-ccff0c97

Then the rules changed again, so I could have kept my communities for me alone, however, that was too late to change back.

Then the communities became as Read.cash itself, too chaotic, so I created an index, which you can see here: https://read.cash/@Mictorrani/index-over-my-articles-at-read-cash-5f7c1e34 - and I refer to that in the end of all my articles. It is not a perfect solution, and it, too, is gradually becoming chaotic, but I want some means to keep my production here in order and so that readers can find old articles about the topics that interest them.

If you write about variety of topics, perhaps an index is something for you? Not at least if you remove your articles from all communities.

I have become concerned about using Communities at all. Actually I found out that the search engine at this site works really well! So what I did was start putting keywords in my article title. For example: “My Foodie Luv”. It make it easier for me to search for a quick list of my food-related content and I can also direct others to my content that way. Like you say … it's not a perfect solution. Sometimes other article appear in the search results. But for the most part, I can direct others to my similar articles. It's doable and seems to be working.

I hardly ever use the search engine, perhaps I should start doing that.

I understood that most members didn't realise how this worked. That's why I wrote this post Still you comment on the dummy now and get no points for this comment. Otherwise there is a link in the bold part in the end of the article.

Yes, better adding the link. But you must be quick. First publish. Then get the link. Open and edit the article and insert the link. The link doesn't exist until you have already published the dummy.

Yeah. Read.cash team should solve this problem as soon as possible, I wonder how long it's going to take.

Who knows?

They are, I know, I have been discussing it with them before via email. But it is not trivial, so it may take some time.

Yes, it is confusing. And yes to your next statement too: it takes time to appreciate change. But I don't think anyone will appreciate the conditions as they are now, no matter how long time we give them. It is not intended to be like this, it is a result of a temporary solution to an unexpected consequence of other changes. That's how I understand read.cash's information in an email to me. There will be more changes before everything is ready.

Regards to the frenquence of updates made by the Read.cash team I can't disagree.

I think they do a great job in emergency, sure it will be fixed soon.

Yes, that is one way to handle it. But it is still cumbersome. We hope readcash will soon have fixed this somehow.

You're welcome.

I hope the information here helps you to handle this better. Few members have noticed how this works.

Yes, searching in a community is difficult. But a a new article can usually be found if you just click "New" when you open the community.

Yes, but this only works for new articles and not always. When I am looking for older articles it is cumbersome.

Yes, indeed. Very cumbersome. That's why I said long ago that I don't want a single community to have too much material. Better divide too large a community into two or more.

They are working on it. As I wrote in a reply to another comment here, it is not intended to be like this; it is just temporary.

This is quite complicated. They must fix that somehow, but it's not easy since the system is completely based on these dummy articles from the beginning.

I have updated the article accordingly.

Glad to hear that. Thanks.

Boosts work now too.

Fine.

Also, notifications have been working correctly for some time too, i.e. if you select a community when writing an article - notification won't be sent until submission is approved and the link sent is the link to the article in community.

Ok, thanks.

They have changed this a little since I originally wrote this, as you can see from the updates, but there is still a dummy and the author's profile and the links to three articles that always turn up at the bottom of every article, still lead to it. However, the point system has also been changed so you won't get direct points for comments in the same way, and comments from different versions have been merged. That is, you will see all comments on all versions of the article.

My pleasure. There are many different topics, perhaps you are not interested in all of them. Hope you enjoy it anyway.

This is one of the things to explain to newbies. Most of their efforts will not give any points otherwise. But we hope to get rid of this problem soon.