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MAJOR Software updates! (Yes, read only mode is done!)
2016-05-25

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive.

MAJOR Software Update

  • Turn anonymous reviews on or off
    In your control panel, in the “Edit Profile” area, you now have the ability to turn your reviews to allow for anonymous, or to turn OFF anonymous reviews.

  • Tags are now in their own area
    Before, we had a section for the summary AND tags, which was limited in space to 240 characters, including spaces. The tags are in their OWN field, and the field limit is up to 240 spaces, including characters.

  • Summaries can now be up to 600 characters long.

  • Can add up to two other authors as co-authors
    When adding a co-authored story, input the user ID number of your co-author. The posting author has main control of the story. The co-authors can edit chapters, and the story will also show on their profile.

  • Contributed chapters (round robins) can be edited by their author.
    In a round robin, where an author contributes a chapter, the contributing author can now go back and edit their own contribution.

  • New story manager
    The story manager is set the way it was before, with the listing by subdomain.

  • File uploads of any kind in the archive is disabled
    The rich text editor is the default, you may not upload text or html files any longer.

I can add categories again!!!!

I expect I'll be busy with adding the things that have been asked of me since the ability to do so was suspended for this part of the rewrite.

Comics Subdomain issues

As many of you have seen and reported to me, when I did the character set conversion, I had loads and loads of trouble with the comics chapter table. After what turned into well over 100 hours with a backup copy of the table, I finally managed to get the character set to convert. My issue with that table was that there were upwards of 11 different character sets IN the data. (I stopped counting after I hit 11) The end result of this was massive data corruption. So, I will be transferring the data from the converted table to the new table, one story at a time. As this is direct database work, it's just me that does it.

Thank you for your continued patience, I will get this done as quickly as I can.

Donations

I'm actually going to do something I don't normally do here, and ask that you please donate so I can send manta at least a part of her fee! We'll have enough in the kitty to pay the site expenses for June, but not much left over. The good thing is, thanks to the donations received to date, with the inception of the “donation kitty”, the MOST I've had for out of pocket expenses for the site has been $65.00! That is a HUGE improvement of an average of $110 each and every month for the four or so years. Once again I thank all of you who have donated!  The kitty is in the header, just click the kitty!

Please report any unexpected actions (bugs) from the changes to the topic in the forum.  

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