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They are in Author News Blog:
 

Explanations of the Reactions are there when you hover your mouse over each one.

In order from left to right...
Love Haha Wow Sad (that's a sad face on a teardrop, by the way) Angry The reactions are standard part of the site in all sections.  And they are reactions.  Chapters can make you react in many ways from good to bad.  Just like any post...

The link in the editor is for linking to something.  You could drop the Amazon ID number in that and it'll create a link in your post.
We removed the link to Amazon from the pages, because it really wasn't doing much for us, even when it did get clicked.
 
Thanks for thinking of us though!
 

If you browse to the stories page and use the filter, you can see what stories you follow:

 
 
If it doesn't filter, simply hit the - and do it again. It sometimes gets confused.

That time something happened.  It's back.

We are currently focusing on other things and will revisit this in the future.

I think so long as it does not start with anything like that (which the system should actually reject) it works fine.  The bug was that none of that is allowed in the friendly link system.  Ie, the link to the actual story.  So this: "This? No! That! That? No! This#" turns into this in the link: story/myr/this-no-that-that-no-this/
The previous bug wasn't properly stripping the odd characters and therefore the stories couldn't be found.
So, that example worked on the test server.  In theory it should also work on GA.  No promises as most that stuff certainly should not be used in a title. I can see a "!" or "?" maybe an "&".  But all of those are also programming symbols and one never knows when a hairball will be coughed up.

There are a lot of goofy restrictions with the built-in software, which is where the notifications come from.  (from a technical standpoint, notifications are triggered by a container.  It's not designed to give you the container's container.)
Trying to get them to be more useful has been on the list for some time.
 

Reason for edit box is controlled by the forum software, not us.  From a software standpoint "Comment" and "Post" though visibly similar, are not handled the same way by the software.  That's not in our control.
 

Start a new topic and include a link to the old one in the first post.
Unfortunately, we have 1 setting for archiving.  7 days covers the need to get the chat topics archived quickly but it is aggressive for other stuff. 
No.  The easiest way to explain it, and it's not that accurate, is to say old topics cause fragmentation of data when they are lingering and getting posted to.  

probably a temporary hiccup somewhere in the pipeline.  there have been no alerts at the server level of any issue.

When you come across this issue, just hit the X button on the story to remove it from the series and then re-add it.  (also check to make sure I added the right one...)
Did you create a World, since this is a case that would fit?  You have short stories and a series in the same world...
 

Use the indent button the editor, not spaces.  Excess spaces are stripped out.

 
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You had too many lines and for some reason, the system could not read the image size from the gallery, so was failing the image.
I've corrected it for you, so you have your image with a link to your stories.

It's the Ampersand.  It was handled differently back when then it is now, so was not stripped properly before.
This sort of issue is corrected with the new update, as we handle series differently.
@A.J. is going to have to poke the database to fix your issue.

Nothing has triggered on our monitors.

Notifications are now working in full.  Before, it seemed to be randomly notifying groups of 25 people instead of everyone.  With the last update on the 30th, everyone is getting notified.
 
If you don't want a notification when a story/chapter is updated, uncheck the "Notify me when story/chapter I follow is updated"  The below screenshot are my own settings.  I have that off myself.
If you don't care about comments on stories you follow, turn that off. 
 
If you are an author, I'd recommend leaving on the two settings for "story I authored"
 
Just go to your Notification settings here:
https://www.gayauthors.org/notifications/options/

There is a notification bug we're working on that's been with us for some time.  You can typically get around it by making sure your notification settings have turned on the "Notify me when a chapter is posted to a story I like" here:
https://www.gayauthors.org/notifications/options/

 
 
Then just "Like" the stories you want notifications on.  Hopefully, we finally get this bug fixed soon.

@grahamsealby
Cia's response works best under the current system.  The upcoming update to the stories software, which will hopefully be posted this week, handles this better.  There is not a separate advanced search page any more with the new version.  When you click forward to read a story and then click back, it returns to your search results (the blue highlights show what is being filtered)

We have switched back to the internal search system. This should speed things back up, but you're going to see the search index building dialog for awhile.
 

It's the way the software is implemented.  They aren't always consistent on features and Stories is usually lagging when a feature of the base software changes.

That's only part of it.  The full answer is here:
 

I have added it to the sidebar for now.  I've also added it to the Our Picks section which is at the bottom of the main page and in the Activity drop down on the main menu

With the update to 4.3.X version of the forums, the underlying software allows for a single reply to a review from the content owner.  This feature support has not been rolled out into the Stories Module (yet).  As I've been without useful internet since Friday, I'm a touch behind on the software stuff, so, it'll be awhile yet until that feature is in and working.  I think.