Myr

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.
 

It sounds like you had a corrupted cookie/cache and it corrected itself.

I'll add it to my evergrowing list.  The system is tested and works when you post a chapter immediately or post a chapter for publishing at a set time.  As soon as you start doing edits on an unpublished chapter, whether that is unpublished or unpublished and set for a posting time, it's starts doing strange things.  There is also possibly a malfunctioning date based security feature.  The system is made to publish stories... not use it at a word processor. 
 
Best advice until we sort things out...
Don't put anything into the system until it is ready to publish.  Use the Preview button.  It works.  Publish immediately.  For the love of all that is holy, if it doesn't post looking correct, do not unpublish. Just edit it immediately.  When you publish, it triggers the notifications and when you unpublish after that, it triggers support requests saying such and such a story was announced but is now missing.  

It's at your end.  Try logging off the site and back in.  If that doesn't work, try clearing the cache.

Depends on your notifications:
https://www.gayauthors.org/notifications/options/
 
For content you follow, you'll get online notification if the left check mark is checked.  And Emails if the Right check mark is checked.

In this case, I do NOT get emails.
 
Stories also allows for notifications for other things:

 
In theory, if you Follow an Author, you'll get alerted if they post a new story. If you follow a story, you'll get alerted to new Chapter.
If you select any of the options in Stories section of notifications (Shown above), then you should get notified in those cases as well.
 
I'm saying should here because we've had an issue with not everyone getting notified every time when they should.  Something we're still working on.
 

The server is currently locked up on that task and is tied to ongoing issues.  We are working with our programmer and support to deal with it.

That happens from time to time, but there should be a pop up at the bottom of the editor that asks if you want to clear it.  I'm not sure how the narrator would pick up on it though.

@ReaderPaul  This video should help you with your author searching.
 
@Timothy M. The Review/Comments error is fixed in the upcoming story software update.  We are reviewing the code now for issues.
Current:

 
Updated: (this is the test server, no numbers are different)

Yes.  Please try posting the next chapter live instead of post-dating it.

A bug issue with the software control.  You should be able to link in notes now.

The birthdate field was a recent addition and the age field is legacy.  It will be removed in the future.  It is not longer a required field, so you can just ignore it.
Myr

I use FireFox more than Chrome on the site.. but I do use both and haven't really noticed on real difference.  It is very common to have both open at the same time.
 

Thank you for the information.  We'll contact folks in private if we need more.  The issue has been reported to the programmer, but we'll be unable to patch for awhile.  He is working on the new version of the software.

There is a chapter title field for the chapter title and the chapter text field is for chapter text only.  There is no need for the title to be repeated in the chapter. 
As a general rule, text sizing and style should be stripped when you paste into the editor.  
 
As a side note, there is also a "Chapter Note" and "Chapter End Note" for author notes.  Again with these, the Chapter Text field is for Chapter Text ONLY.
 
Please avoid putting anything other than cleanly formatted chapter text in the chapter text field.  It's likely that it will cause issues with the chapter text controls and require you to fix in the future. 

Gay Authors uses a responsive web design that works quite well on mobile.  Developing a separate app would not be a cost-effective way to spend our limited resources at this time.

On the menu marked "Help" there is a rather extensive answer to your question.
 
 

You have to re-upload it. It might have gotten corrupted.  Not sure

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.