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@wildone, joke's on you Steve! I also have a PS4 Pro. I'm ready to play your competitive Dora the Explorer 🤨

Yes it is a bug. And yes, it's because of the 'not quite a chapter' nature of the prologue. I've reported the bug to the programmer.

As we head into Gay Authors' seventeenth holiday season, and the end of the decade, I wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on our community in this past year. With that in mind, first and foremost, I want to thank all of you for making Gay Authors what it is. We wouldn't be here without our authors writing stories, our readers reading those stories, and everyone talking together about those stories. That is the root of our community, and that focus is what we should keep in mind as we ride the roller coaster of life. I'd also like to make a special call out to all of our Premium members. For a long time now, advertising has fallen well short of meeting the expenses of running Gay Authors. Premium Membership Subscribers keep Gay Authors open for everyone and allow us the luxury of constantly improving the site for everyone. So thank you from the bottom of my heart. Without you, we wouldn't be here. If you would like to join this group, you can click on Premium on the menu in the Store tab. New Authors Over this past year, we were very happy to have three authors promoted to Signature Author: Carlos Hazday Mikiesboy Parker Owens We've also recognized an author as a Classic Author: Mike Arram Last, but certainly not least, we also added a new Promising Author: Northie New Features: We also added some major new features this year aimed at making the quality of life improvements for readers and authors both. Collections - All members can now create collections of stories to keep to themselves or share with the rest of GA members. We also added the option to create Curated Collections. We'll be adding one of those soon for everyone. You can find collections on the Stories page. https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/collections/ Reading History - Ever accidentally close your browser or forget what story you were reading last week? Gay Authors now has a Reading History option that not only keeps track of what the last few dozen stories you were reading were, they tell you the chapter you last viewed too! This is a completely opt-in feature. You must turn it on to use it. It is technically a special collection so if you click the collection link above, you can turn on your Reading History there. Reading Stats - This feature was requested for a long time by authors. We have always tracked views on stories and chapters, but they were not time-bound. Meaning, the longer the story was on GA, the more views it would have. It wasn't that useful. The Reading Stats feature allows you to set a time to see what people are reading recently. This helps give authors an idea if a promotion you did works or what kind of topics/genres are popular at any given time. There are tons of sorting/filtering options to crunch the data as well. https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/reading-stats/ Story Goals - Feedback is the lifeblood of an author. Since most online authors are not getting paid monetarily, feedback is the only way they know they are hitting their mark. We added Story Goals to help give a visual kick to people to remind them to write comments and reviews. The goals appear in various places on the site and give a good show of activity in the Stories system. The goals, current and historical, can be found here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/goals/ Tons of small fixes and additions - We continue to add and enhance the Stories system to help give authors and readers what they want. We've tracked down and corrected a few of the more burdensome bugs this year and have hopefully put them behind us for good. In the background, we've added some additional enhancements for authors and the various ways we categorize stories that will be put to good use in the coming year. Site Blogs and Anthologies: Classic Author Feature - Thank you to @Cia for the hard work she does with graphics and feature blogs for our Classic Authors. There are a lot of story gems out there from our 17 years of being online and she helps bring them to the service to get the attention they deserve. CSR- Can't Stop Reading - Thanks to @Cia again for the work she does in writing up the blogs and promotions to highlight authors all across the site. The whole blog is worth hitting the Follow button on so you can keep up to date with all the up and coming stories as well as the classics. Anthologies - A special thank you to @Renee Stevens and her team for all their help in getting our Anthologies going this year (and every year). Also, a special thanks to the authors that took the time to write and submit the 27 stories in this year's anthologies. Prompts - A special thank you to @comicfan for the weekly prompts. Lots of authors have fun week after week with them. Articles - A special thank you to @Comicality for the weeks of articles early this year. They helped promote a lot of discussion around important writing topics. He'll be back in 2020 with more articles for our discussion pleasure. Ask An Author - A special thanks to @Carlos Hazday for his work with "Ask an Author". These interviews are always a fascinating insight to our family of authors here at GA. Author Guess Who - A warm thank you to @Renee Stevens for her "Author Guess Who" features, which provide a series of clues to see how much members know about their authors. Story Reviews - A great big thank you to the review team, for their 15 story reviews and 1 special review they completed this year. Weekly Wrap Up - A very special thanks to @wildone for his great efforts and our weekly wrap up blogs. He adds humor and links to all the fun that goes on each week here on GA. So, once again, Thank You Everyone for making Gay Authors what it is. Thank you to the Staff and Teams for all that you do behind the scenes for your fellow members. The jobs are sometimes thankless things we toil away at, but I'm sure the members appreciate it. I know I do. Without all of us working together, we couldn't keep doing this year after year. To all who celebrate: Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Blessings this Winter Solstice! Happy Boxing Day! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Festivus for the Restivus! Last, but not least, I wish you the very best of a New Year! Myr

Fixed. thanks @Renee Stevens and @Mann Ramblings

In light of my last comment on this, I felt obligated to point this out: Based on the apparent respect to the franchise, they might not totally mess this up... you know... like they did with that 2016 steaming pile.

@Renee Stevens, so put it back?

@jamessavik This was caused by your edit, most likely. I unpublished and republished your chapter and it fired the notification and put you in the feed on the Story Updates Widget.

The Story is showing up at the top of the Stories section and it is in the Stories Update Activity Feed: https://gayauthors.org/discover/6/ I have made a bug report about it not being in the "Story Updates" widget that appears in the sidebar on various pages. @jamessavikI've split this post off into it's own thread, as this is something I could work with, while the other one did not provide enough information.

I've reported the additional issues to the programmer.

It has been removed. Nope. Nope. Too many people with second thoughts and no way to undo their actions.

oh, and the Native American as well...

@Valkyrie This appears to be working now. Please watch it carefully and let me know if you see any issues when you next post.

@Graeme How is his latest story coming along?

that is one studly-looking pilgrim

There was a backup in the processing queue, apparently. Collecting views with timestamps and compiling them into useful chunks takes time. Apparently lots of people were reading over the holiday weekend and the queue backed up. The programmer has made some adjustments. @Headstall, in theory, the current line up should be accurate now. There were apparently some bugs in properly tallying views.

The programmer says it is possible to change this and it's being worked on.

It does not currently, but I've asked the programmer to look at it. (it used to use whomever posted as the notification author and that caused all sorts of issues when staff posted something... such as premium or anthologies)

It should be unstuck now.

@Carlos Hazday Beats my day...

I have alerted our programmer. The views have been switched over to the Reader's stat function, but I'm not sure how often those process. (To simplify, all views are using the timestamped views so that you can sort on timeframe under stats. On older stories, all pre-existing views were moved to Dec 2017 as far as timeframes go)

OH! Yes, you can't review your own stories so it won't show you a link for that either. I forgot about that.

They show up for me on my various test accounts... you must be logged in to see it though. (no guests)

We have added a new feature on the site... Reading History. This is a special collection that you have to opt-in to use. It shows you the last 50 stories you've read for 30 days. (stories will drop off the list if they are there over 30 days. The oldest will drop off if you have more than 50). The history is not public. Only you and staff can see it. As you can see from my screen shot, it also shows you the last chapter you've viewed and gives you a link to it. The plus sign allows you to add a story to a collection directly from your reading history, if you want to save it long term. The red X box allows you to delete the story from the history. IF you want to remove the entire history and stop tracking, go to "Manage" and then choose "Delete Collection". I know a lot of people have been asking for this and I thank everything for their patience is getting it implemented. Happy Reading!

I was unable to hide from the family today. I did, however, end up in a half hour conversation on writing with my auntie, whom is a published romance author. We had a lively debate on characterization. lol (whole hell of a lot more interesting than all the famous people that went to my uncle's high school... I mean, who's heard of Stan Lee anyway....)