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This story has such colorful exclamations. not to mention enough salty language to make a sailor blush.

I think the plot is a very good start. There are a few too many easy to correct grammar issues however. It would be good if those could be cleaned up so that people can see the plot and not be distracted.

Site traffic patterns have long indicated that people that use the forums are a minority. (about 35%) Most people that visit, just read the stories.

It would probably have been helpful to not have ignored the repeated warnings of heavy iceberg flow too...

Actually, After the Titanic sunk, the Olympic wasbrought back to dry dock and had a second hull put on them. (see Refit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic) Also major design flaw of Titanic... rudder was too small. Which, besides the Titanic disaster, also was a contributing factor to the Olympic collision with the HMS Hawke. The small rudder cause the turning radius of the ship to be very poor. If Titanic turned 10 seconds faster or 10 seconds slower, she probably would have stayed a float.

Well, one issue of having the site for 10 years is that authors come and go in writing. Real life strikes or they say what they wanted to say. GA.Stories has made things a lot easier to review and it is right at the source, as Krista mentions. We started the feature on the blog that Trebs mentioned to hilight some great reading that just may no longer be getting updates. We have proven, as we slowly repost dkstories stuff that the Hosted Author stories are popular if people get a chance to look at them. We will continue to promote authors and their great works as we move foward. We'll find new ways to do this as well. We will probably slowly backaway from custom forums because the activity is dropping there and to help reduce site complexity.

The Company Metro threatened a lawsuit on MS... Hence "modern" I will say that my mother, who is completely tech clueless, is liking Windows 8 a lot. She used to call me all the time to find things in Windows 7. Now she is not only finding things in windows 8, she's helping my even more clueless father with his laptop! So while Win 8 may not be overly appealing to 'those in the know', based on my very small sample size of clueless users, it seems better off...

A reminder: It violates sites rules to promote or link to sites doing illegal activities. Like sharing copyrighted movies, software, and music, for example. For those continuing the thread, don't repeat the mistakes of those before you.

Well, upgrade to Windows Server 2012! That works with Windows 8 great. IE-10 is exactly what it should be. Standards compliant. Now, all the crap MS made over the years for their non-standard browsers needs to be updated. Set up a Virtual machine in Hypervisor and browse the old crap that way.

PS, the video maker is completely clueless.

Well, since I'm the local tech geek king... I have Windows 8 Pro on my laptop, desktop and backup laptop. I also have a Surface RT (the only touch device). On Surface, I'm in the new interface constantly. on the laptop and desktop, I almost never use it. Windows 8 is noticably faster on all machines. For those that poo poo the Surface RT. It's a perfect device for consumption and has handy content creation option when in a crunch. In fact, It works perfectly on the site for stuff. And unlike, say the iPad, the editor actually works with it on the site... IE10 also happens to be a really good browser. It's fast, responsive and standards compliant. It's a shame it took MS so long to get there. But better late than never I guess. I will say after using the Surface for a little while, I have a tendency to poke at my laptop screen now...

I liked that chapter a lot. I'm also happy that i'm not stuck at the edge of my seat for the next few weeks wondering where the next chapter is. Which is not to say I'm not looking forward to it, of course. good job!

I was in on the Closed Beta last week. As soon as I stopped playing that, I pre-ordered...

That was an interesting chapter. I would like to know more about how they got the information from Morgan. And, of course, you left it there?!

I definitely like this one-shot. I think it is pretty neat for Harry to be the agressor and Draco not to know what to do with him.

is it just me or is Ron a bit creepy stalker here? good wrap up to a great story

that is really a cruel way for the great Albus Dumbledore to exit the scene...

Harry sure has a lot of irons in the fire

so many things going on...

good chapter

that's really good press coverage for Harry.

Neville makes a great hero

Ron's behavior makes more sense now.

I liked seeing from Neville's pov

Ron is getting annoying