Finally stopped putting this off, and actually made an interface for more advanced archive queries!
Party!!
SO! What changed?
For starters, the search bar now searches by title only now. I gave up trying to make a clever AI for guessing what you actually wanted to search for.
But the new interface, via a nifty dropdown box, allows to you narrow results down by fic rating, deleted status, story age, completion state, featured stories, archive found on, author name, number of likes, wordcount, story tags, character tags, and even change what order the results are given in!
Of course, I could put more, but this is the best I could figure without making too much a mess of options and toggles
Also! The tags and character selectors have an automagic include/exclude ability! when shown in GREEN, those selected options will be included in the search using the mode shown.
If you click on one to make it RED, then the results will do their best to make sure that nothing with that tag is shown!
(Eg, if you really don't want to see any 'Human' or 'Gore' fics)
Enjoy!
Note:
If your browser doesn't re-download the extra css, if may look a bit weird - try clearing the browser cache
Up next? more user features, like reading lists?
Still working that one out.