Myr

We need links for stories if it is not working. Most are working properly, except poorly formatted chapters. Without going into the details of it.

The problem with software these days is you have to make it for so many combinations of hardware and apps. This is why Microsoft is perceived to be buggy where Apple is not so much. This is just the difference between a completely open ecosystem versus a completely closed one.

First note... Android is a modern mobile operating system. It is still pretty much shit for content creation. (You need either Windows or Apple powered PC (or Linux if you are masochist). If you are doing content creation on a primary touch device... well... good luck. The software world is still working on that. I just tried using Word on Android to copy a formatted story from Android Word to Android Chrome. It did not carry the format over as it does with a real PC. This is not a bug on Gay Authors. This is a bug on Android. We obviously can't fix that (and neither can Google with their shit version control issues). I'd recommend either using a real PC or using the editor to format. Myr

Piss Poor Design. They are adding it back in in the 4.2 software update, which will be a couple months. In the meantime, I've updated major groups to allow you to hide your content. NOTE: This flags moderation so you'll see hear from the Mod Team, if you're doing things that is odd.

It's fine. Just don't put the same review in two places. Google gets really snotty about "duplicate content". You can write a long review on the blog. Then when you write the story review, make it shorter and include a link to the longer review. It'll make a nice little blog insert into the post. Also link the story in your blog.. like below. (just paste the link and it auto formats)

Has it been two weeks? It already feels like two years. Aside from all the work here, I work full time. We have the same issue with our programmer, but he's on a totally different time schedule. So it adds to some complications in getting these bugs fixed. I'm sorry it is taking so long, but some things are being a bit stubborn. You guys see the ship is moving, but you don't see that the engine keeps randomly spewing oil all over the engine room. I'm just happy we keep moving. In order to stay somewhat sane, I've been taking a break from working on stuff to enjoy the new game, Mass Effect: Andromeda. I'm enjoying the game a lot, even with all the well documented quirks, shall we say. It is truly funny at times... both intentionally and not so intentionally. (look up duck walk Mass Effect on YouTube) Hopefully, we'll get these bugs all wrapped up in the next couple weeks and we can focus on the new stuff going forward. There are some pretty nice changes coming in 4.2 version of the forums. We're looking at replacing Chat. The next version of stories should have the previously mentioned "Reading Lists" feature in it that does a much better job with Favorite Authors, Favorite Stories, a To Read List, Your Reading History, and custom lists. (Stories 2.1). The version after that is aimed at authors and making managing story posting a lot easier for both authors and for us with our new Story Queue system. (Stories 2.2). Both of these features were removed from this release of stories in order to get it out faster. Also, we should have a lot less issues with the next updates, as they are relatively minor changes to existing stuff, unlike the giant upgrade we just did. Once all that stuff is finally behind us, I'd really like to get back to reading and writing for fun.

Rotate 90 degrees.. click link... rotate back lol

It is if you use a larger screen.

There was a permissions issue with the Editor group and it should now be fixed.

I thought I would take the opportunity to explain some of these glitches and bugs we're all enjoying. First and foremost, the forum software version 4.0.0 was a complete rewrite from the ground up that converting our existing data to work in the version. This has happened before, because we started on version 1.1 back in 2003. That's years before Facebook, for you Millennial. This is a lot of baggage from issues over the years and things glitch. Indeed, we experienced a bunch of issues during the upgrade process stemming from this. But to add fun to the whole thing, we went from version 3.4.9 to 4.1.19.0. This means we jumped over 50 updates in one go. That is just the forum software. Our stories archive software is a fully rewritten from the ground up to work with the new forum software. We tested a LOT of versions. The one that went live on Gay Authors was our 26th update. The tenth of 'feature complete'. We've squished a lot of bugs. Unfortunately, technical bugs are like Hyrda. You cut one head off only for two more to appear. Now, we've gotten a few people tell us how awful we are handling the upgrade and how we shouldn't upgrade without bugs. This statement shows a lot of naivety when it comes to dealing with software in general and this site in particular. Microsoft is a company employing 100,000 people, yet turns out bugs daily. We have 0 employees. We have a volunteer staff that must make time between full time jobs, family and the general requirements of life in order to run a website. It frankly pisses me off that people have the audacity to demand anything from me at all. This site is free. We don't charge you to read stories. We don't charge you to post stories. Sure, we have have Premium Content, which offers a number of additional stories and ad-free browsing on the site. And it is through the generosity of those members that makes the site viable. It also pays for the server, the government requirements of businesses like licenses and taxes. And, like the rest of the site, we barter with our premium content authors compensating them for participating in the program. The ads help pay for things too. We do not put up donation requests or constantly beg people for money. That is not the model I decided on when I built Gay Authors. We started there and it sucked. Never knowing from month to month if I had to scrape money together to keep the site going. Screw that. So, yes, we have bugs. But ask yourself this: What is the critical Mission of Gay Authors? Providing access to great stories. The bugs are not preventing this. Stories can be accessed. New stories can be added. The bugs we are experiencing are annoying, certainly, but they don't stop you from reading stories. So go read some and we'll work on getting everything else going.

Try now.

This issue should be fixed when the rebuild tool is triggered.

Try again. I have made some adjustments to the group settings.

Leave the no space in. That's how it should appear in the editor. if you view source, you should see: <p> Leave the no space in. That's how it should appear in the editor. </p> <p>Paragraph 2</p>

I'll look into having the existing stories and chapters run through the rebuild process that the rest of the site went through. Don't do anything yet.

Yes

Notifications are no longer something you can delete. The system handles that. I've updated some settings with notifications so you can make some adjustments to how you get alerts: https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/notifications/options/

I just added it on the desktop editor.

Following has replaced Friend. There is no friends list any more. Not something we can control either. I complained when the company made that change and was ignored.

I have resorted to snorting now.