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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....)

What's that? lol. The value for me too high to cancel it. It rather depends on how you do stuff too.

it is part of Xbox game pass on pc and Xbox. first month is a $1. just saying

@Wayne Gray I think it might be a cache issue. You can try this by clearing your cache, doing a force refresh (ctrl-F5 in windows, typically), or trying it in a different browser. As you saw by my Lorem Ipsum post, direct paste from Word 365 worked fine for me in windows 10 and Firefox.

We're back for the last week of Anthologies. @Renee Stevens will take us through the end of the year with this year's Fall 2019 Anthology entries. Without further ado, the last 3 stories from Winter 2013 - Recipe for Disaster

We haven't set a time frame yet, so this feature is not currently active. But we can set it based on multiple things: Last update, last visit, current status. I will say the numbers will vary based on whether the Author is still active on the site or not. (active is defined as logging into your account) We'll post more about this when we come up with a specific target. This feature is about helping the readers decide what to read. I know some authors post once every 12-18 months. Staying engaged with the site will extend times. no activity on the site and stories will be marked accordingly.

Okay. The game released yesterday. The reviews have pretty much all been positive I waited for the reviews before I bought it. But they were so positive from reviewers that I am very agreeable with, I bit the bullet. the trailer linked above is representative... but not as sharp as you'd get on Xbox One X with HDR and 4k Screen. This is what the Star Wars games should have been all along. And dare I say, the Disney Star Wars Movies? Ewww. It's really too bad EA refuses to make good games like this. This is a fluke folks. They'd rather macro-transaction you to death usually. and.... WOW! On Xbox One X, this thing looks and sounds like the movies. There are some very minor graphics glitches... but, wow! The ship jumping to hyperspace and arriving at the first planet is on par with the movies, graphics detail wise. It was sharp.

So Obsidian, one of the best RPG-centric game studios, released The Outer Worlds a few weeks ago. I've been meaning to make a post about it for awhile. I love the writing and quirky humor in the game. This is pretty much what this studio is known for. I'm enjoying the game when I get those few moments to disappear into it. And it's worth pointing out that if you have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ($10 per month), this game is included on it for box Xbox and PC. New subscribers can sign up for a $1. talk about value! Anyway, well worth buying it too.

By the way, you can create a Collection (public, of course) of your favorite stories and share it with others by pasting the link into a post.

We've updated Stories again! Story Collections All members will now have the ability to create a list of stories List can be public or private List can be ordered or unordered. The feature also allows for Curated lists of stories to be created by the staff. For example, we can create a "Gay Author's Classics" collection of stories. Or any number of other options. Review link added to Last Chapter of Completed Stories On the last chapter of a story with a status that allows reviews, there is now a link to the review section on the table of contents page. Lock link title from edit on publish for Author Upon publishing a story, the link title will be locked. (link title is usually generated automatically and this reduces confusion when editing stories) Automatic Story Status Update Stories will now be automatically set on hold if an author stops showing up on site for a set period of time and the story has had no updates. Stories will now be automatically set to abandoned if an author stops showing up on site after a set period of time Category Enhancement Story data for entire category displayed under the category name. Similar to series/worlds. Story of the Moment Widget Random story link to further highlight stories on different areas of the site Quality of Life Enhancements For authors, when you visit the series page, your buttons will be "Add Series" and "My Series". Same for worlds and collections. Otherwise, it'll show "add story" and "my stories" like always. For members, "Add Collection" and "My Collections" will appear on most pages stories are listed. "Premium Stories" link was moved to the top of the right-side menu. Premium Stories pays the bills and keeps us open... just saying.

That's a bug, obviously. An upgrade occurred while I was at work and a setting got borked. It's been corrected. You should see the buttons now.

REMINDER! Fall 2019 Anthologies are due TOMORROW 11/15!!! Welcome back to another Anthology Flashback Thursday! This is part 2 of 3 of Winter 2013's Recipe for Disaster