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Just a reminder to authors... you have until Nov 15 to submit your Fall 2019 Anthologies! For this month, we will be doing 3 weeks of of Winter 2013 Anthologies. "Recipe for Disaster"

Happy Halloween! To celebrate the day, we're doing an story contest flashback to 2017 with our Halloween theme...

I should have been clear and stated that when it was all done, it should be roughly the same. As for why it is different at the moment, I would hazard to guess that "Story Stats" is the Story, ie the Table of Contents + whatever chapter data has been processed. (and since Jan 2018) The story views stat listed on the story is Table of Contents + each chapter. I'll have to check with the programmer, who is 16 hours ahead of my timezone. He might have been literal and compiled all of the "Story" stats first, which in the system, means the table of contents. And is compiling chapters for individual chapter stats that add the story total views in later. I don't know since the only story of mine that has chapter stats complete is one of the first entered in the system, so the views are way off on virtue of being mostly before Jan 2018. I can say that 7,150,000 total views of 26,700,000 have been processed. There is quite the intensive amount of grinding going on in the background and we're trying not to bog down the site as this stuff is processed. None of this is simple. Nor is trying to explain it to a mixed audience ranging from technical novice to college professor.

A few things... we are counting views as there is no reliable way to count reads. Story views and Story stats should be 'the same' roughly on stories posted after Jan 2018. In a future update, the original views will be rolled into the stats and the number displayed will be stats. This number will be replaced with the number from the Story Statistics after we're done compiling all the stats data: I put the details above, but the short answer is that any story posted before Jan 2018 will have extra views that the reading stats don't count (yet). @Carlos Hazday is absolutely correct on the views versus reads thing. It's a semantic thing as for most people a 'view' and a 'read' are the same. You can spot when it is not by a gross sharp drop off from chapter 1 to 2. (often meaning people sampled chapter 1 and left and never checked out chapter 2) An excellent point! Absolutely agree. Another great observation! They really only tell you trends and if something odd appears. For example, I went to the "My Statistics" link in the "My Stories" menu and then sorted by most views... Turns out my most read story is one of my 'sex scene' writing attempts. Sex sells... who knew? Now, when the chapter information finishes compiling, you can look at a long story like Comicality's New Kid in School, the oldest story on site. Look at how the reading of chapters breaks down... This tells me something about chapter 39 attracts more attention. Authors can use this sort of thing to determine how a chapter goes over and if any one chapter is particularly popular for one reason or another. If you're an analytical type, you can try to figure that out and repeat it. if you're not, that's okay too. Hope that helps

That is consistent with the trends we've noticed over the years. Though I would say there is a percentage of people that are members, but not signed into their accounts for various reasons. They should show up as guests... And we can't really track that percentage

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.

Question: What are those Large Numbers on Reading Stats? Short Answer: It is overall site views rank. Read full post for more details and image. View full question

Question: What are Reading Stats? Short Answer: Shows reading stats over time periods you can filter. View full question

October is upon us and it is time for another month of Flashbacks! But first, authors, please make sure you are working on the anthologies due November 15th! (see above) Without further ado, here are the last 5 stories from Fall of 2014: Scars!

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@Carlos Hazday Yup, it's there. https://gayauthors.org/author/carlos-hazday/ It's in the gray box under your normal rep, which is under your pride fist.

I've updated my signature, since Worlds and Series can now be directly linked and properly formatted. I'd recommend to authors that have Worlds or Series to use that to share a collection of your works

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.

October is upon us and it is time for another month of Flashbacks! But first, authors, please make sure you are working on the anthologies due November 15th! (see above) Without further ado, here is part 3 of 4 of October 2019's Anthology Flashback. We are going back to Fall of 2014 with the them of Scars!

Just post the link to your gallery image in the Story Note. It works. @Talo Segura Paste the link directly into the text editor. Do not use the insert image from link button. (That only works if you have the direct image location)

Welcome to week 2 of the Fall 2014 - Scars Anthology flashback! Please be kind and read and review!

We are looking into add a check mark graphic with description of "Read it" We are aware of this desire and there are plans to give members a read history list that shows you the last chapter you were reading. Being able to pick location doesn't really work without a lot of development time currently.

Yeah... I'm a contrarian that often goes a different way just because my peers went one way. But I prefer single player games over being canon fodder in multiplayer. lol

This games was originally released 10 years ago. It's considered the unofficial 3rd movie, written by the same two that wrote the first two movies. It was fun 10 years ago and is incredibly nostalgic for those of us that were kids when the movie came out. I picked it up again. Perhaps it'll help erase seeing the trailer for that 2016 toilet leavings reboot movie.

October is upon us and it is time for another month of Flashbacks! But first, authors, please make sure you are working on the anthologies due November 15th! (see above) Without further ado, here is October 2019's Anthology Flashback. We are going back to Fall of 2014 with the them of Scars!

You can join the Writer's Circle here: There are topics in there that might be helpful. As for the editor, the editor forum is in there and you can make a post in the Editor Forum.

So I picked this up near launch. It is from a double A studio, instead of your usual mega studio. It's very much like a budget version of Dragon Age or Mass Effect. You know, the last few good games from Bioware before the EA pestilence set in. It's story driven and it's good. It's good enough so far, in fact, that the minor technical issues I've experienced can be ignored. I'm having fun with it and want to see where it goes. Some of the foreshadowing in the early game isn't subtle.

So far so good. This looks great... It sounds right. Now I just hope EA didn't totally trash it somehow.