I have just enabled release monitoring for RoyalRoadL.com.
It currently works by monitoring the Best rated, Latest Updates and Newest update pages.
To minimize clutter and single-chapter series, releases that are unrated, or have a rating lower then 5 out of 10 (e.g. 2 1/2 stars) are not added as releases.
When a new release is found, the entire series history is actually extracted and inserted into the release history with correct timestamping, largely because it was very little additional work to implement.
I have just completed implementing a system for scraping new releases from FictionPress.
Hopefully, this will considerably flesh-out the OEL series listings in the coming days.
Right now, It only adds releases for any series that have 3 or more chapters, largely to prevent a lot of the "fluff" on FictionPress from cluttering the release feeds up.
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a convenient way to work backwards over the historical releases. I'm currently using the "just in" page as the release source (since FictionPress apparently does not believe in RSS feeds), but there is no way to view older "just in" entries.
Also, since FictionPress is unmoderated, there will probably be some adult entries in the feeds. Considering there are already some adult LN/WN series in the database, this isn't too big a problem, but it's worth being aware of.
New support for adding original-english-language ("OEL") content is now available.
This means that OEL content now has a separate category, and adding releases for items tagged "OEL" no longer requires adding a empty translation group.
So I've spent the last few days completely rewriting the system that guesses the release volume/chapter/fragment from their RSS feed title, and activated it last night.
Ideally, it shouldn't really make any noticeable difference, but be much more maintainable then the horrible regex abomination I was using previously.
In any event, it has generated a few duplicates here and there, mostly as a result of actually working better then the previous system, and emitting some volume/chapter/fragment combinations that differed from the older outputs because the older values were wrong.
Anyways, fun times.
If anyone was wondering why there were no releases for the last ~18 hours, I was working on the release-parsing system, and had it in a special testing mode that doesn't upload anything, and forgot to switch it back.
Whoops.
Anyways, normal operation has resumed at this point.