README

Group discussions into series: novels written chapter by chapter, serials, tutorial parts, devlogs. Every chapter stays an ordinary discussion with its own replies; Anthology adds a cover page with a table of contents, reading progress, previous and next on every chapter, and a notification to followers when a chapter is added.

What it does

• A page for each series at /series/…: a large cover, the description, the chapters in order, and the reader's progress ("4 of 6 chapters read") with Start reading / Continue reading.
• On every chapter, under its title: "Chapter 3 of 6", the series, and previous / all chapters / next. After the chapter's text (its first post) a Next chapter button, before the replies.
• Adding a chapter: open a discussion you started, choose Add to a series in its menu, and pick one of your series or start a new one. It becomes the newest chapter. The same menu moves it to another series or takes it out.
• Follow a series to get a notification (and an email, if you want one) when a new chapter is added.
• A directory at /series with Ongoing / Complete, sorting by latest chapter, newest, most followed or title, and a title search. A Series tab on the profiles of members who have one.
• The owner edits the title, description, status and cover, reorders chapters and removes them from the series page.
• Call it what fits your forum: series, novel, story or book. Menus and buttons follow ("Add to a novel", "Novels").

Privacy

Everything Anthology shows goes through Flarum's own discussion visibility. A chapter in a tag a reader can't open is not listed, counted, linked from the chapter before it or announced to them, and a series whose chapters they can't see doesn't exist for them.

Reading progress is Flarum's own record of which discussions a member has opened, so nothing new is stored while reading, and chapters read before Anthology was installed count too.

Permissions

Members can only add discussions they started, and only to their own series.

Installation

composer require ernestdefoe/anthology
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Updating

composer update ernestdefoe/anthology
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Links

• Source
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