Wow.

[estirose]

I rarely post stuff in Esperanto on fanfiction.net. Mostly because I find it hard to write in the language, also because, well, people only seem to read it when they're bored and hitting my profile.

I just got a review on Mocriproĉaj Vortoj, my one Esperanto fanfic. It's Kamen Rider Kiva, set episode 13.

Review:
Saluton! Mi feliĉas, ke mi finfine trovis kiel serĉi rakontojn per lingvo. Ŝajnas, ke ni havas malgrandan komunumon de Esperantlingvaj verkistoj. Hura!
Mi ŝatis vian rakonton malgraŭ, ke mi ne konas la karakterojn.

Translation:
Hello! I'm happy that I finally found how to search stories by language. Apparently, we have a small community of Esperanto-language writers. Hooray! I like your story, though I don't know the characters.

I'd like to know how he did a language-only search on ffn, but I'm hardly complaining.

Incidentally, fanfiction.net is doing a graphical stats-type program to eventually replace/merge with the stats section. The graphical stats are nice and pretty, but I hope that they continue to have the stats section, because it's very hard to tell from the graphs which stories got hit if you've got, say 31 fics.

Comments

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Having looked at it, you can view the stats by story - but it's a bit of a pain in the rear if you have any more than about three stories.

Also, the language search is part of the main search page - though you do have to combine it with a keyword of some description.

[estirose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the keyword requirement that thwarts me. The best luck I've had is searching for "kaj" (and). I can understand why they have the keyword requirement -searching for all English stories would be rather silly - but it makes it hard to search for fics in non-popular languages.