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All stories are still in the system. There is a bug where they are not all listing when you click on the author. It has been reported to our programmer and will be corrected as soon as we can.

Ah. I am tied up today, so I do not have time to reply in detail. If you had Reading History working previously, it is most likely that you deleted it, or the system might have when you maxed out your collections. So just read stories for now and stop attempting to do anything with collections until someone on staff is able to address this.

The upgrade to our latest version of our Story Archive software is complete. This is a pretty big change under the hood on how we handle Genres. First thing first. Definitions. Primary Genre - This is the top level genre and consists mostly the old genres we used along with some new ones. Sub-Genre - These are more narrowly scoped genre under a primary genre. For example Comic Fantasy is a sub-genre of Comedy. Why the change? With the advent of epublishing, the number of genres and micro-genres has exploded since you are no longer tied to the physical space limitations of a bookstore. This means you can get pretty detailed in the space you write in. In the survey we ran earlier this year, there was a lot of questions that sounded something like "what's with all the werewolves?" The answer is that the market for ebooks is pretty hot for Paranormal Romance, especially shifters/werewolves. It's fine if this stuff is not your thing. Just click on the top level genres you are used to. The only big change there is that "Drama" is a sub-genre to "General Fiction". The Genre and Tags page has the full definition of all the genres and sub-genres. https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/genre-tag/ For right now, you'll see a lot of 0's in the sub-genres, as most authors haven't had a chance to do anything with the updates at the point in time this is posted. That will change as authors update things and staff make updates based on genres and tags on stories. Looking at a Genre, you'll see the definition of that Genre and any sub-genres that are under it. On the sub-genre, you'll see the Primary Genre and the Sub-genre definition will display: There are two changes to the Story Filters for Genre as well. You Select "Any genres selected", meaning if you select "Adventure" and "Comedy Modern" you will find stories with EITHER "Adventure" or " Comedy Modern" or both. Select "ALL genres selected", meaning if you select "Adventure" and "Comedy Modern" you will find stories that have at least "Adventure" AND "Comedy Modern". (they can have additional. You can add genres to the "Without" category. For example, if you have the above and put "Romance" in the Without filter, it will remove all stories that have any Romance genres tagged to them. This is very powerful in letting you drill down to exactly what you want. At least when authors/staff get all the stories updated fully to use more in-depth genres. For Authors, When you add new stories, Step 3 is still the same, you just have to select the sub-genres you want. There is a generic sub-genre in each major primary genre. (Drama is under General Fiction). There is a link on the story entry screen to the Genre and Tag page linked above to help you select which genre best fits your story. We recommend no more than 4 or 5 sub-genres at most for a story. If you have more than that, go to General Fiction and choose "Experimental" for your sub-genre. Genres are open for use. We are open to adding more and adding more definition as needed.

Reading History is Automatic once you turn it on. It is limited to a set number of stories for a set number of days. Those values are displayed when you click "My Reading History" on the main story pages. (A maximum of 50 stories for 30 days as of this post) Story Collections are a way to create a group of stories and hold them for as long as you have an active account. It does not track what you have read, as of this posting. Such as "My Favorite Stories" or "My Favorite Fantasy Stories". The image shown above shows collections, but without any stories in them and named after stories. "Following" content from a software perspective is subscribing to notifications for a story. Followed Content can be managed from the menu on the upper right of the page under your username under "Manage Followed Content" https://gayauthors.org/followed/ There are tabs along the left side of the screen on desktop size devices that allow you to select type of content you want to manage. Stories or Story Authors being the most common. More details on collections, such as adding stories to them, can be found in the Help/FAQ: https://gayauthors.org/faq/stories-archive/reader-questions/

@bottomguy The system is working normally so far as I can tell. However, I have no earthly idea whatsoever as to what you are doing here. Can you please explain what it is you are attempting to do by adding a large number of empty story collections?

Ah. I installed Firefox on Android and can now repeat the issue. Since it is the only browser with the issue, it sounds like a FireFox bug. I'll report the issue to our programmer. Simple fix though. Don't use Firefox on Android.

I am still not able to reproduce the issue on any of my Android devices, on either Chrome or Edge. Can't reproduce on any windows computer on Firefox, Edge, Chrome, or Opera. It appears to be you, not us. You will need to provide exact details on operating system and browser including version so that we can try to match conditions because we are not seeing the issue.

Yes, hence the "complete" status. It was part of the anthology of that year. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have to work with a lot of time constraints between working full time and running Gay Authors. I will eventually post more of this world and these characters.

This just dropped:

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That's the beauty of the system. We provide tools and many ways to experience stories. So people who want to drive down to something very specific can. People who want to use reviews or recommendations can. People who want to just read can.