SOL is back up

April 21, 2008 Storiesonline 7 Comments

Storiesonline.net went down at 4:00 am EDT for reason still unknown.

I am still investigating the issue. Your patience is appreciated.

UPDATE 11:30am: As it turned out, we got hardware failure in more than one server. We need to replace few servers. This will take a while folks.

UPDATE 2:30pm: We managed to get the site back up on minimal capacity at 1:00 pm EDT.

Not everything is running as it should, so the site could be slower than usual. To bring everything back to normal we’ll need to do a maintenance run. That will happen sometime this week when I get replacement servers. I’ll make an announcement on the site about when to expect this to happen.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Small Changes

April 19, 2008 Storiesonline 2 Comments

Today I implemented a couple of small changes that may be of interest.

First one is on the readers’ side. For premier members, the Universe/Series listings page now allows you to sort by multiple criteria. You can have the page sort the listings by Universe or series name (the default), by author name, by story count and most importantly, by update date. You can have this sorting be in ascending or descending order.

The second one is for authors, and it’s a minor thing. I added the ‘Flash’ story genre for those stories that would benefit from it (less than 500 words).

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