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 [...]
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 [...]
Having received my iPad and started testing it with the site, I’m glad to report that it works perfectly. However, the previous e-book readers that I have haven’t been updated for the iPad yet. Stanza, which is what I use on my iPhone, was bought a while ago by Amazon and I’m not sure if [...]
Problem: Proliferation of pedo stories, especially extreme ones is turning readers away from the site and drawing concern from long time members. Recently, I’ve started receiving many requests to delete members accounts and received several messages of concern, all citing the proliferation of pedo stories on the site. My long standing attitude towards this issue [...]
I have a problem. Or should I say, I’m dissatisfied with something. Story classification. Currently, the site uses codes to classify stories, but this method has significant shortcomings in my view. It does not distinguish between main themes or story types from minor activities. I want to create an additional classification system that focuses only [...]
Well, the new reviewing system is mostly finished. I revamped the review display page completely and made it accessible to everybody. The old reviewing system has been integrated with the site. No more need for a separate log in page and different ID. Reviewing is easier than ever for those with reviewer accounts. A new [...]
To encourage readers to send feedback to authors, storiesonline provides an easy to use form at the end of every story and an email contact link in every author’s page as well as a feedback link at the end of every blog entry. In order to encourage those who are reluctant to disclose their email [...]
This was a frustrating weekend. Inexplicably, still, some people are unable to access the site. The servers are online as usual. The DNS entries for the site are configured correctly. So why some Comcast, then Earthlink and now MSN users are unable to access the site? I don’t know, and can’t figure it out yet. [...]
I’ve been receiving quite a bit of comments and reports about the site’s new layout currently available in the beta area of the site. Some favourable, some not. The most common negative common so far is that there is nothing wrong with the current layout, so no need to change, and don’t fix what isn’t [...]