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You can just type code for emoticon, by the way.  Also, the ones you use the most often appear in the "Recently Used" section.
The Emoticon system is... a legacy system in the software and I suspect will be finally replaced with Emojjis in a future version in the not too distant future.
Emojjis work now, by the way.  All the modern operating systems have them built in, as far as I can tell.  😎
 

Just go to the Editors list:
https://www.gayauthors.org/stories/browse/editors/
Then click on your own name.  Yes, you can type your member number in the link I gave above for Tim... but that's hard for a lot of people.

If you follow the story and your notifications are set to notify on Like, then you get two notifications.

 
The follow system in the old software relied on likes.  Now they rely on Follow.  The Like notifications in the current software are simply legacy support. 
 
Now, having said that, the 4.1 version of the forum software had a limited notification function that artificially cut off the number of people it would notify.  This was fixed in the 4.2 forum software, but not yet fixed in the Stories software.  We are beta testing some of those changes in the Stories software now. 
 
Current workaround if you are not getting chapter notifications on stories you follow... Like them and toggle your notification for the "Notify me when a chapter is posted to a story I like"
 

They should be working again. 
 

Somebody would have to title it that way.  The default title for images is the file name...

Anonymous sign in has been removed due to issues it was causing in the system. 
 

"Gay" authors because 15 years ago when we started "Gay" authors, "gaystories.com/.net/.org" were all taken.  And "gay" was pretty much what everything was.  Then something called GBLT came along... then LBGT... then today's alphabet soup.
All stories are welcome.  I just don't think straight ones will have much of an audience here.  It is true that our audience skews towards gay teen male stories... but I'm not sure if that is a chicken and egg problem or not.

Per our Terms of Service, we do not remove old posts as a general rule. People that request account removal, generally get changed to Former Member. 
As we've seen, removing content has implications that we try to avoid. 

When you follow a forum, you only get notified of new topics.
You must follow a topic to get notifications of replies.
(This single level down of notifications is what has been giving us issues with chapter comment notifications, btw)
I'm getting them. 

Is there a time they stop for you?

That is not a built-in capability and we're not really looking to expend our limited resources on creating that (and then maintaining it through updates).  We're struggling enough getting the story software updated in a timely manner.

I think it is a factor of chapter size, whether you have it in cache, and how the browser loads the page.  Basically, it jumps to the anchor point (ie the comments), then the rest of the page finishes loading, leaving you in the text. I think.
 

For the first, you should have options on the image to set as...

 
As for moving it, I think it probably has to be a request to staff.
 

VigLink got turned on accidentally.  It's off now.  You should be good.

Bug!  it is being worked on.

Please try now.  It should be the Premium Content ad about coffee.

Absolutely not happening.  We do plan to put in a request queue in future revisions though. 
Here is why:
1. Removing stories messes with the search engines. 
2. We get a lot of support requests from readers asking what happened to story x? 
3. The Drama Queen problem. Sometimes people throw a hissyfit and delete something and then throw another hissyfit when we can't fix it. 
 
From 15 years experience, I can state unequivocally that allowing unrestricted deleting is a very bad idea. 
 
In the future, even unpublishing will act differently.  Unpublish will make chapters unavailable but keep story listing saying author chose to unpublish with reasons given.  Again, this is to address the near constant "What happened to story x?" requests we get. 

How about now?

Yes? The error is clear. You hit the search flood control limit. 
Wait a few seconds between searches. 

Okay.  I'll look into this over the weekend.

There was a minor update to stories on Sunday.  But it shouldn't have done anything with titles.
I'll ask someone with apple stuff to look into it.

Age is required of members for liability reasons.  We have members from age 13 to people in their 80's. 
The whole community is involved in keeping people's behaviors acceptable. This is especially true for our minors. 

There was an issue that got corrected during the software upgrade and the rebuild process.
It seems to be working now.

Okay. I've been able to produce the error and I've reported it.
 

This should be working now. Please give it a shot.

These should be back.