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I confirm there is an error.  It seems isolated to this one chapter.  I've reported it to our programmer.
So, stand by for the moment.

It's not us.

Chapter views are the number of times the chapter has been loaded.
Story Views are the total of all chapter views + the views of the Story page.

Hopefully that addresses the common things we're seeing.

Yes, you should add a series if you have at least 2 stories posted.  Yes, you should follow the FAQs on how to do so.
 
 

Send a link to @Valkyrie for entries and they will be put in the correct category for the event.

Should be all set.  Anthology categories are locked from edits, so staff need to do it.

It should be "Edit Author" when you click "My Stories."

I'm sorry, I'm confused.  There is no chapter 12.

Reviews are only shown on Complete stories. when you changed from Complete to Long Term Hold, you turned off reviews on the story.  The system only allows comments until the story is done.  when a story is done, you can review it.

A reader is a member who has posted no content and has no reputation (typically brand new to the site).  A member is someone who has actively engaged in the community. (As of this writing, it requires 50 achievement points to move from Reader to Member). 

That's accurate.
dkstories is a special case where we had in our possession a story to repost.

You should post a story with it in the World Building Category (not fiction)
https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/category/149-world-building/
Select the World Building Genre Type.

 
Then you should create a World. (Worlds are unordered stories existing in the same world.  Series are directly connected ordered stories. ie A Trilogy or such)
Then add your new world building story to the World. And your main story.
Here is an example of how I did my own world.  One of those is a world building entry and two short stories:
 

Patched.  It should be working now.

Notifications in the system do not use title to track items.  Everything in the background has an id number and notifications are tracked by that ID.  If you got a notification for a story, it's because you followed that story or author.  In this case, the author, as it was alerting a new story.

This is active on the site now.

Lots of factors play into it.  but Stories almost always have that pattern.  Especially stories posted over a length of time.  (Say once a month).  Some people will reread all posted chapters before reading the new chapter.  Or the author may have posted the first chapter on a slow day on site, so got a lot more clicks than usual.
Views are only an indicator. Reactions, recommendations, and reviews are more reliable indicator of how people are enjoying a story.
@ReaderPaul, pretty much yes.

In the story archive, categories are something different and are labeled as such qhen you edit stories. You are asking about Genres and Sub-genres so i fixed your topic title. 
You can choose any sub-genre that makes sense for your story. The primary genres are set automatically when you select a sub genre. So if you set Family Saga as a subgenre it will automatically show under Literary Fiction Primary genre. 
The system will squawk if you set too many sub-genres. If you have that many you want to set, then the story probably lacks focus or you just need to set experimental as you aren't fitting into genre fiction. 

Drop a PM to @Cia, and discuss with her.  We'll have to confirm some things.

This is now patched.

Just a random hiccup.

We don't control YouTube sadly. 
You are sure you are linked to a specific video and not a Playlist or some such? 

Yup.  Did a server upgrade this morning.  The database was updating and offline when you got that error.

Links are fixed.  I think something was added from Comsie's end.

Not seeing the issue.
Just use the normal links. Click Clubs (1) and then look at the list of clubs you are a member of, "My Clubs" (2)