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Question: How do I recommend a story using the system? Short Answer: Click recommend on the story and select reasons then hit recommend. View full question

Question: What are the Top Recommended Stories? Short Answer: Top Recommended stories are the result of members recommending stories View full question

Sorry for the confusion on the add discussion topic thing. I've updated the initial post with the screen shot to make things easier. Just follow Cia's instructions above.

Correct. It shows up on the Recommendations page linked above. It also shows up when you visit any story table of contents page. It is not displayed as part of the story list. (too much resources currently)

Permission bug, I've reported it.

By now, you have probably noticed that we have upgraded the Stories software on the site. There are a bunch of what I would call quality of life updates and a major new feature. There is now an easy way to update your Author Profile area: For promoted author, you can now update your logo here yourself. Banners need to be 848x121 pixels. All authors will be able to add their website link and author bio. This is also where future Author Profile fields will show up, if/when we add them. There is now an Author Discussion link directly under the author detail on the author profile page. This link is defaulted to the "Promoted Author Discussion Forum" for Signature, Classic and Promising Authors. It defaults to the Story Discussion forum for Authors. For Poet's it defaults to the Poetry Writers Discussion forum in the Poetry Club. If you set this link to be a topic, it also appears at the end of each chapter, unless you override it by setting a specific topic on the Manage Story menu on each story. Manage Story -> Add Discussion Topic -> Type Title of Topic to prompt the search. It shows you the Title, the Forum, and the date it was added. Select the correct one and you are all set. Signature Authors that have Fan Clubs, that fan club is listed here. This puts the forum discussion links right in front of the readers. It is our hope this helps tie our forums back into the stories more, for those that are interested in more than just the story. Authors can set their own topic/forum/club by hitting the Change button. The major new feature is Story Recommendations. I thank everyone that provided Reasons for the Recommendations both on the public blog and privately. Cia and I reviewed them and took the most popular along with the ones we felt covered a range of options. We have 8 currently and might re-evaluate those in the future. I've noticed that people have discovered the feature and started using it I've been writing this... so score. It's easy enough to use and figure out that I didn't have to explain it. For those looking for the listing, the official page version is here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/top/recommended/ The link is also located on the side menu on the story pages. Some very important points to this new system. The recommendations are time-based! You can only recommend a story once. You can change that recommendation at any time or remove it. The main purpose of the time based item is that in order to stay at the top of the listing, you need new readers recommending you on a regular basis to stay there. You can, of course, hit the other tabs for timeframes, including to see which story has the most recommendations. The list also allows you to recommend a story or remove a recommendation right from the list. Story recommendations show up in the box below the meta data/description on the story. The recommend button is in the center there on the story listing. Clicking it will pop up the Story Recommendation Reasons. What makes the story good for you? You can select as many reasons as you like. The Story Recommendation count is number of people recommending. We also have Widgets (those little side bar items) that show Top Recommended Stories and Top Recommenders. I have both deployed on the Forum Side bar for when you are in say "The Lounge". I hope you enjoy these new features and they help you find more great stories by our great authors!

Yup. We're going to have to change how the system caches this. I've replaced the widget on the front page with the new Top Recommended Stories widget.

It looks like a caching issue. I've reported it to the programmer, but it probably won't make the coming very soon software update. But probably by the weekend in the post update bug patches.

We need some suggestions. It looks like we'll probably be using 8 items. File this under coming soon.

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hiatus?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/impious?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trek?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fruition?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sanguineous?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tramontane?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/salubrious?s=t

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/devious?s=t

If we are wandering into use of promotions... Put a link to one of your stories in your Signature...

I think the context of that one is she's a spy and wearing two dresses and it was to expose her dishonesty. lol

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/factotum?s=t

I did not read your commentary that way, so please rest easy.

I just noticed the additional comment about Club forums... If you are referring to this section: Sorry. the forum software has an On or Off option for that section. I am hoping the new version that is releasing soon with new improvements/features corrects this.

This is pretty straightforward folks. In reducing the number of forums, there is a reduced amount of space for sidebar items. When you log out and there are 15 stories listed in the update... this is what it looks like: Please notice that it keeps scrolling some ways... The vast majority of people in the stories section of the site all the time: I've made some adjustments. Now I'm going to make a statement: I track data pretty regularly on the site and make adjustments accordingly. I'm going to do what's right for this site as I have been doing for 17 years and 5 months as of this post. Since we've watched a dozen similar sites to Gay Authors come and go in this timeframe, can we agree that I have a clue as to what I'm doing? Because frankly, after a long week of work and other projects, I came here on Saturday morning to collect my statistic information and do the routine maintenance and see this post. By the time I got to the end of it, my main question was this: "Why am I still spending so much time in my life dealing with this site when all people do is bitch bitch bitch?" So I spent an hour dealing with this and still haven't gotten my data for the day. I'm very sorry for making room to promote authors and not duplicate story promotion in yet another spot. My bad.