Threadmark issue with Questionable Questing

[ahas...@email.com]

Earlier today I ran into an odd issue while trying to download https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/company-of-conquest-the-mad-doctor-worm-si-oc.31319/ using the latest released version of FFF.

This new fic has one threadmarked chapter, which happens to be the *third* post in the thread. FFF downloaded the first post as opposed to the first threadmarked post. The Calibre log for the FFF job had a line which suggested that it was by design: "Not using threadmark metadata: threadmarks(1) < minimum_threadmarks(2"

Here is the relevant part of the log:

========== HIT (GET) BasicCache

https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/company-of-conquest-the-mad-doctor-worm-si-oc.31319/

FFF: DEBUG: 2025-03-02 17:13:43,497: requestable.py(55): Encoding:utf8

FFF: INFO: 2025-03-02 17:13:43,498: base_xenforoforum_adapter.py(495): use useurl: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/company-of-conquest-the-mad-doctor-worm-si-oc.31319/

FFF: DEBUG: 2025-03-02 17:13:43,958: base_xenforo2forum_adapter.py(97): Prefix tag([NSFW])

FFF: DEBUG: 2025-03-02 17:13:43,962: cache_basic.py(116):

========== HIT (GET) BasicCache

https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/company-of-conquest-the-mad-doctor-worm-si-oc.31319/threadmarks

FFF: DEBUG: 2025-03-02 17:13:43,962: requestable.py(55): Encoding:utf8

FFF: INFO: 2025-03-02 17:13:44,062: base_xenforoforum_adapter.py(538): !! Not using threadmark metadata: threadmarks(1) < minimum_threadmarks(2)

FFF: INFO: 2025-03-02 17:13:44,062: base_xenforoforum_adapter.py(539): !! Affects threadmark description, cover image, tags, etc.

FFF: DEBUG: 2025-03-02 17:13:44,072: calibre_plugins.fanficfare_plugin.jobs(267): metadata newforanthology:

Is this behavior expected or a bug?

[Jim Miller]

That's behaving as designed.

When threadmarks first started being used for story chapters, it was common for OPs to threadmark only an existing index post.  

You can set minimum_threadmarks:1.  From defaults.ini:

## When given a thread URL, use threadmarks as chapter links when
## there are at least this many threadmarks.  A number of older
## threads have a single threadmark to an 'index' post.  Set to 1 to
## use threadmarks whenever they exist.
minimum_threadmarks:2

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[ahas...@email.com]

Thanks for the explanation! I have added:

[base_xenforoforum]

minimum_threadmarks:1

to "personal.ini" and it solved the problem. Appreciate it!