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    External Newsletter Discontinued

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    News Archive
    After dropping back from 2 years of weekly newsletters to monthly updates in 2019 on our outside email newsletter, we have decided to stop using the outside service altogether after the final newsletter which will be sent on Sunday, July 28th.  Going forward, we'll be sending emails with the news members want and need to know directly from Gay Authors! If you wish to receive the occasional email newsletter from the site, then please go to your Notification Settings and chose one of the two boxes highlighted here: 

    This news is in this month's newsletter too for anyone who misses this blog. Moving forward, we'll be able to bring you site news, tips, announcements, games, and more specialized updates quicker and easier from GA!  We think it will be far more useful to send out emails as changes and things happen on the site for GA members, plus it keeps all your notifications here from one place.
    Don't forget to share this with your fellow members, especially if you know they like to keep up with all the site news and changes (use at mentions in the comments, share this blog, shoot them a pm now!) and let's get everyone to change their notification settings so they're ready for the switch! 
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    Stories Archive Software Update

    By Myr,


    Technology Archive
    Hello everyone!  It is that time again.  The Stories Archive software on Gay Authors has been updated.  We've had a whole lot of bug fixes and a couple of new features added.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: Stat's are Rebuilding for the next few days.  You'll know when it's done because not every story will be ranked #1 with 0 views.
    New Features
    Site level Story view statistics are now available.  We have been collecting timestamped story/chapter views since Jan of 2018.  That is just shy of 26,000,000 story/chapter views that have a timestamp associated with them.  NOTE: for privacy sticklers, no personal data is collected here.  You can now go over to the new Story Stats section and see what people have been reading, set the time frame and the genre and show the list. Story level statistics are now also available.  You can click on the story in the site level list and see the details of views by chapter in the time frame you choose. My Stats.  Authors will be able to quickly see how their stories are doing with views. This data is broken down into All Members, Members or Guests.  Administrators also have the option to view Premium Member group views. (again, no personal information here).  This allows you to get an idea of what people are reading, if you want to make sure there is more of that available.  (This is exactly what we are doing with Premium Member group views... what do Premium Members like reading?  Get more of that.) Series and World link embedding now works properly.  That is, if you place a link to your series or your World into the editor, such as your signature, it now properly formats like a story link would. We now have the ability to allow a chapter to be edited without the story being edited.  This is important to authors that would like to be able to fix typos in their Anthologies without the system throwing a hairball about editing stories in restricted categories. Stories only reputation is now visible on your author page to just the author and Staff.  This will show you how close you are to leaving the moderation queue through promotion. Bug Fixes
    Story widgets now obey settings for devices.  Which is to say, when you view the site on desktop, you'll get more information visible.  If you view the site on a mobile device, then we reduce the menus down to the bare minimum to improve the speed Review links in notifications are no longer broken.  This was patched onto the site a while back and this is the official fix.  Links to your reviews in a notification should work properly. Automatic Link Title should simply add a number to the link title if a story with the same automatically generated link exists. Should this remove the confusion when everyone names their story the same thing and the system previously gave you an error. We can now properly delete chapter comments again.  There was a bug preventing us from doing it. Leaderboard function is going to be what it is for now.  It's quirky from a programming standpoint and the minor issue we're experiencing is not currently worth the cost of trying to work around it. Goals widget should now be usable on Mobile devices Weird bug where the Promoted Author banner was not showing properly to members/guests has been fixed. Miscellaneous notification bugs fixed. Multi-author approval system for World's and Series should be working properly now, where the author can improve instead of requiring an admin to do so. Story Update activity Stream, is no longer showing unpublished stories. I am working on a FAQ entry for using the story stats. That will be up soon.
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    Story Stats Feature Information

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    Technology Archive
    The system has gotten all the story level stats built and it is still working on the chapter level.  I have written two quick FAQ entries for this for those that are interested in the feature.
     
     
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