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 [...]
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 [...]
Thanks for all those who commented, your feedback has been very valuable. Alright, time for some decisions. I guess after all 130+ comments, it’s agreed that the new system should be implemented. It will take a little while to do, but it will get done. Some changes will be required, like the clear definition of [...]
Yesterday, this site got hacked again! No, not storiesonline.net, but this blog, hosted at storiesonline.org. In the last three weeks it happened two times prior to this. One time a redirect iframe got injected into the database and the second time, another iframe got injected into the site’s index page. I cleaned them up each [...]
We’ve had support for externally linked stories since the start of the site. However, the feature wasn’t exactly popular and generally led to confusion and frustration with the readers and misuse and abuse by some authors. I’ve decided to phase out support for externally linked stories. As of today, the ‘New External Story’ button in [...]