Hi All! This email went out on July 5th. Unfortunately, it has been brought to our attention that not everyone got. Investing the report, I found we were about 1000 people short of what should have sent for reason unknown. I therefore am posting it here so people don't get spammed if we posted it again.
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Attention Everyone!
We have updated how we are handling our profile information in order to handle future personalization, better understand our audience and better enhance privacy. Next time you log onto the site, if you haven't yet, you will be prompted to update your profile information. It is very important that you read the first text and click "Next" or you will be in an endless loop until you do. The only required field is "Age Range". More details can be found in the announcement: Profile Completion Prompts
Recap of our stories for June 2021 📚
We had 31 new stories posted.
We had 361 new chapters posted.
Our readers have left 111 reviews, 18 story comments, and 4,302 chapter comments for our authors.
👨❤️👨The top 6 Member Recommended Stories for June 2021 were:
Bossy Nanny by Mrsgnomie
Embers by WolfM
With Pride I Go Forth by Headstall
Trophy Cub by Grumpy Bear
The Brilliant Boy Billionaire by Altimexis
Tales from the Refuge by Wayne Gray
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Happy Reading and Writing, Everyone, and Thanks for being a member of the Gay Authors community!
Myr
Site Admin
As part of the always ongoing site improvements, we are in the process of changing up the blogs. We are taking the opportunity to consolidate blogs now that categories are working again in the blog software. As part of that change, we've designated this blog to be the center of our Writing news. So, Writing Tips is now Writing World.
We encourage all our site authors to follow this blog and to let us know if you want to see something else featured in this blog.
As the schedule currently sits, we are planning on upgrading the forum software to the newest version in the next couple of weeks depending on how the software patching process for the Stories Archive software goes. As part of that roll out, I'll be changing how we handle new member registration as well as the information available in the profile. One of the more visible changes is that we are going to remove the birthday and Age in Years fields and replace it with the Age Range demographic option. Being accurate here is important for safety concerns for our younger members.
I have deployed the updated fields on site already, but I have not updated the "Profile Completion" prompt yet. There will be only one mandatory field, which you can update any time starting today.
If you go to your profile (click your icon on the upper right of the page), then choose edit profile, you'll get this:
Below this is a new section "Demographics and Interests":
More:
How posts appear will be changing as well:
Please note that the "Member Title" field goes away that is currently below the Public Display Name. You can set "Member Title" as your "Topic Display Title" and then stick in whatever title you'd like in the "My Words" field. Or you can choose "Motto", like shown above. There are other options, go check them out.
Hope this helps!
As you may have read in the "Blog Updates" Announcement, we have consolidated various site blogs down to 2 different blogs. One for Writing and one for everything else. The big tool that allows us to do that, and still find content is the "View a Category" option. Here is an example from the Writing World Blog:
When you select it, the categories pop up and you can select which ones you want to read. Unfortunately, we have to manually update all the blogs to categorize them. So there will be less entries in the category until everything is fully sorted. Be sure to follow the blogs!
