How did you find Gay Authors and What made you stay?

[Jason Rimbaud]

What service do you use for subscriptions? I'm always hesitant putting in my personal informaiton

[Jason Rimbaud]

10 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

What service do you use for subscriptions? I'm always hesitant putting in my personal informaiton

NVM its paypal. Cool 

So I went with the six-month subscription because it was a one-time payment. I couldn't do a one-time purchase for a year at the level you suggested. 

Oh f yeah! I got a new badge. Got to get 'em all! 

 

EDIT: You didn't tell me the entire site would change so dramatically. Now I'm all sorts of confused...thanks a lot.   

Edited July 9 by Jason Rimbaud

[Gary L]

7 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

NVM its paypal. Cool 

So I went with the six-month subscription because it was a one-time payment. I couldn't do a one-time purchase for a year at the level you suggested. 

Oh f yeah! I got a new badge. Got to get 'em all! 

 

EDIT: You didn't tell me the entire site would change so dramatically. Now I'm all sorts of confused...thanks a lot.   

I really messed up last yr because I was scammed on a booking.com reservation- nearly 1,000$ - with my Mastercard, in a panic cancelled/bank recalled all other payments including GA.  Thankfully, Myr was really helpful and v understanding.  Another reason why I love this site. 

Edited July 9 by Gary L

[Krista]

2 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

When I was in my "looser" days, I lived by the same philosophy. . 

I'm off to figure out how to purchase a subscription.  These are the times I wish I had a personal assistant. I really hate having to do things. 

The man really put the word 'looser' in quotations. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

17 minutes ago, Krista said:

The man really put the word 'looser' in quotations. 

This isn't the comment section in one of your filthy stories; I had to be tactful. You should have read the first sentence I wrote.   

[Wayne Gray]

3 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

This isn't the comment section in one of your filthy stories; I had to be tactful. You should have read the first sentence I wrote.   

Filthy, eh? Are you paying this man to advertise for you @Krista?

[Jason Rimbaud]

3 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

Filthy, eh? Are you paying this man to advertise for you @Krista?

Not anymore, I used to be high priest of her fan club, but she didn't like it so I disbanded the order. 

Edited July 9 by Jason Rimbaud

[Krista]

1 hour ago, Wayne Gray said:

Filthy, eh? Are you paying this man to advertise for you @Krista?

My stories are wholesome, the comment section was filthy, tsk tsk tsk. He's the prince of filth. 

[wildone]

I do remember finding GA wayyyyy back in the early days of the internets and there were message boards that you had to go to to find gay fiction. That was weird when I think back to then. Then I found Nifty and early on there, I found a comment about stories on GA. Then from GA, they had links to other sites too, so I was wandering around GA, Nifty, AwesomeDude, CRVboy, and others. 

I would say I morphed away from the others after a while, but occasionally still look in on them. I discovered great writers like @Topher Lydon and @Mike Arram at other sites. I'm so glad that they post here now as well. Adding in like Krista, @DomLuka and so many others I was hooked. I actually have met a lot of famous people in my past jobs, stars lets say, but one trip down to California, I met up with @viv and her then husband and @shadowgod and I was soooooo nervous. I think Authors are the real stars out there and the ones at GA are not making millions and taking their fans for granted. Have you hugged your nearest Author or Poet lately?

Back in 2009, I was in a horrible car crash and spent about a year off work. Myr was in the process of switching the hosted to signature and getting eFic into the Stories App and he put me to good work in transferring stories over. We also had a lot of dedicated authors help with the transition over, that is until @Myr allowed @Krista some access and she broke the whole system . Smart call on not letting her be an Admin, Myr  

As I got more involved in the site, Trebs, a former admin (RIP), approached me about becoming a universal Mod. Back then we had universal mod, which was Mod for the whole site, and we also had some chat mods when we had a chat room. I think this was also when I got to know Krista and my life has been for the worse better ever since  

A few years ago I was in the background knowing a teeny, tiny bit of what costs are like in the background and I knew that I could give a little to keep the site I love a little boost and have been getting premium memberships since. So I guess I'm a Premium Volunteer Admin . If you can afford, even like the ever loose @Jason Rimbaud suggested, it would be so much appreciated. 

Now why I have stuck around comes down to 1 thing only. The people. The people includes the Authors, the Editors, the Poets, the volunteers, the members!! All of you make coming back each day such a pleasure. I think that Myr gave this site the platform to create a standalone community that I'm sure other sites would kill for, and by each of you making a decision to join and participate, makes it all right. 

[Bill W]

I guess Myr must have liked the earliest stories I wrote and posted on Nifty, and although there was a lot of sex in those stories, I always tried to ensure that each one had a plot, rather than just being about sex.  Myr asked me if I wanted to have my own site back in 2003 and I accepted.  I liked it because of the immediate feedback potential and the fact that I was able to chat with other members, and I've been here ever since.  There have been periods when I've had to cut back temporarily due to health concerns, but I've always returned, and I hope I've been a credit to this great site.  

[Gary L]

6 hours ago, wildone said:

I do remember finding GA wayyyyy back in the early days of the internets and there were message boards that you had to go to to find gay fiction. That was weird when I think back to then. Then I found Nifty and early on there, I found a comment about stories on GA. Then from GA, they had links to other sites too, so I was wandering around GA, Nifty, AwesomeDude, CRVboy, and others. 

I would say I morphed away from the others after a while, but occasionally still look in on them. I discovered great writers like @Topher Lydon and @Mike Arram at other sites. I'm so glad that they post here now as well. Adding in like Krista, @DomLuka and so many others I was hooked. I actually have met a lot of famous people in my past jobs, stars lets say, but one trip down to California, I met up with @viv and her then husband and @shadowgod and I was soooooo nervous. I think Authors are the real stars out there and the ones at GA are not making millions and taking their fans for granted. Have you hugged your nearest Author or Poet lately?

Back in 2009, I was in a horrible car crash and spent about a year off work. Myr was in the process of switching the hosted to signature and getting eFic into the Stories App and he put me to good work in transferring stories over. We also had a lot of dedicated authors help with the transition over, that is until @Myr allowed @Krista some access and she broke the whole system . Smart call on not letting her be an Admin, Myr  

As I got more involved in the site, Trebs, a former admin (RIP), approached me about becoming a universal Mod. Back then we had universal mod, which was Mod for the whole site, and we also had some chat mods when we had a chat room. I think this was also when I got to know Krista and my life has been for the worse better ever since  

A few years ago I was in the background knowing a teeny, tiny bit of what costs are like in the background and I knew that I could give a little to keep the site I love a little boost and have been getting premium memberships since. So I guess I'm a Premium Volunteer Admin . If you can afford, even like the ever loose @Jason Rimbaud suggested, it would be so much appreciated. 

Now why I have stuck around comes down to 1 thing only. The people. The people includes the Authors, the Editors, the Poets, the volunteers, the members!! All of you make coming back each day such a pleasure. I think that Myr gave this site the platform to create a standalone community that I'm sure other sites would kill for, and by each of you making a decision to join and participate, makes it all right. 

A wonderful post!  Spot on.  Thanks and well done 

[ReaderPaul]

6 hours ago, Gary L said:

A wonderful post!  Spot on.  Thanks and well done 

Thanks for your comment, @Gary L.  As @Myr and @wildone mentioned, if all gave some, things would run more smoothly.  When I went to Premium membership, things became MUCH smoother -- especially when accessing the site on my two mobile phones.  Additionally, I like being able to access the Premium stories.  That is another pleasing bonus of Premium.

Finances were a factor on going Premium.  I am on a very tight budget, but Premium has been well worth it.

[Nahrung]

I don't remember specifically how I found GA, but I do remember the first story I read... 'A to Z' by Parker Owens. I'm guessing that I started reading it on Nifty and I really don't remember how I found Nifty either. 

What I first liked about the site is the format... easy to read and navigate. I also liked the notifications of new chapters, although I don't have them sent to my email anymore because I pretty much check-in at GA every day and my first stop is 'Content I Follow'. It took me a while to start reading reader's comments and even longer before I started leaving comments myself. I never got into the Forums but I'm starting to look at them more seriously. I think this in the first message on here that I've contributed to.

I also like 'The Story Lovers Home' because, even though I can't 'follow' content on there, I get a list of new chapter postings and find updates to stories I'm following.

[TetRefine]

In 2009, when I was a teenager, I used to browse an old soft-core porn site called TheGaySurfReport. On that site they had a page where it linked to other various gay sites, and one of those links was GA. I liked to read, so I clicked and created an account to browse around. It became the only outlet I had to explore anything to do with being gay as a closeted teen in a small town, and I spent a lot of time talking to other members in the live chat room that used to exist on here. I met a boy in that chat room who eventually became an in-real-life boyfriend, and while we eventually broke up, it changed the course of my entire life. So in a way, GA truly did change my life.

I haven't been a very active participant here for the last 5-6 years, but I still come on every few weeks to lurk around and see what's up. I enjoy seeing some of the old faces that I remember from the early years of GA still active on here, and coming back just for nostalgia's sake. 

[Ron]

14 minutes ago, TetRefine said:

coming back just for nostalgia's sake. 

Hmm! I may not be one of the 'originals' that you mention but I've been here a good long time (I've followed {informally} your post(s) as offered). Despite my attempt at yanking your chain, it's good to find you chiming in.

[Brayon]

I was reading one of the rare stories that actually has a plot on Nifty, and at the bottom the author mentioned GA. The story was Shelter, and the author was Comicality. After a few days of reading several wonderful stories, I started thinking, "I can do this." So, I posted my first story, Aeris - Guardian Force. It was, and still is, riddled with many errors. Cia approached me about what I posted and encouraged me to give it another go, and I fixed a lot of the blatant errors. 

Then I met @Mikiesboy, @MichaelS36, @MacGreg, @mollyhousemouse, JP, among others, and found a community to I could belong to. 

Over the years, I've taken breaks for various life reasons, but I've always come back to GA. 

[Bill W]

3 minutes ago, Brayon said:

I was reading one of the rare stories that actually has a plot on Nifty, and at the bottom the author mentioned GA. The story was Shelter, and the author was Comicality. After a few days of reading several wonderful stories, I started thinking, "I can do this." So, I posted my first story, Aeris - Guardian Force. It was, and still is, riddled with many errors. Cia approached me about what I posted and encouraged me to give it another go, and I fixed a lot of the blatant errors. 

Then I met @Mikiesboy, @MichaelS36, @MacGreg, @mollyhousemouse, JP, among others, and found a community to I could belong to. 

Over the years, I've taken breaks for various life reasons, but I've always come back to GA. 

Don't feel bad, Brayon, because I'm sure many of us had more than a few errors in our earliest stories.  It's good that you took the time to fix some of those errors.  Keep writing and it will become easier for you with every attempt.  

[SilentandBroken]

How: cruising Nifty and discovering Comsi’s works there. Some others as well. A few mentions to here and the ability to have discussion on the stories with other readers and the author intrigued me. I finally found a place where the content fits my need to feel heard and at times empathized with through the stories bc of my long history with trauma I’ve always felt alone. These stories fix that. Comsi’s especially. Sigh I miss him deeper than I should.