So far, 2012 has proven to be a productive year for SOL. We’ve introduced many big, user-oriented, changes. We replaced the library’s custom lists, types, and keywords with Tags. And we’ve added Story-Read flag and Flagged-story flag. All good and dandy. But, that was all reader stuff; what about authors? Well, I’m pleased to report [...]
For the last couple of years, eReaders like the kindle and various other readers have been proliferating. Many have functions that handle the site’s codes for classification and search. However, all the eReaders that download the EPUB format seem to be case-blind on codes. So the MF, mf, mF, Mf codes look the same to [...]
As of midnight, July 16th, 2011, our network is down. All the servers and all the sites, from storiesonline.net and finestories.com to other sites are all down. I don’t know why. I’m trying to reach the hosting facilities phone, but I’m getting no answer. To make things worse, I’m out of town on business and [...]
I changed the opening date for story submissions for ‘The Contest contest’. The submission wizard will start accepting submissions as of April 20th, 2011. Authors shouldn’t rush their submissions. There will be no repost or changes to submissions until the contest closes and the winners are announced.
Today I added Markdown support to the site’s submission wizard. This will allow authors to write their stories in that format and submit it. Of course, the same limitations as html format still apply. In fact, the wizard will receive the submission in Markdown, run the markdown converter on the text and then pass it [...]
Yesterday, Apple release iBooks 1.2 for the iPhone and the iPad which has an unannounced feature. You can download EPUB files directly off the internet into iBooks now. Just like you’re able to do with Stanza. So now, whenever you’re browsing Storiesonline or Finestories, just click the EPUB button for a story and you’ll be [...]
I’ve been receiving this question since I started the new site’s beta stage. I guess I should address those questions once and for all. Why Finestories.com? It’s simple, while storiesonline.net is very successful, it’s adults only and quite frankly it has some contents that even adults can’t handle. I’ve been asked by many authors and [...]