http://storiesonline.org/blog Storiesonline related issues Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:44:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Storiesonline has been down since 4:00 am EDT. We're still not sure of the cause. I'll try to keep you all posted. Sorry for the inconvenience. http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/06/17/storiesonline-is-down/ When I started implementing the site's various RSS feeds, I took the easy road and I used a token in the URL itself for authentication. It was an acceptable solution all that time ago. However, with the proliferation of RSS aggregators and their facilities for finding RSS feeds, I found ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/05/15/upcoming-rss-feed-changes/ 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 ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/04/21/sol-is-down/ 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 ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/04/19/small-changes/ I've made an experimental change to the storiesonline's listings pages stylesheet that causes check marks to appear next to visited links. The reason for this change is to help those with color blindness who are unable to see the difference in color between visited and unvisited links. There is no functional difference ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/02/07/stylesheet-tweaks-for-visited-links/ Unfortunately, due to unexpected work load in my work, I've been unable to finish the code needed for moderation, or for reader voting. So progress has been slow. As of the first of February, the current code on the site for accepting nominations should start accepting nominations for stories published in ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2008/01/29/clitorides-awards-status-update/ As I work on the moderation end of the Clitorides Awards site, I've become aware of something. Many of the nominated stories are no-sex stories. As in not a bit of sex in them. The clitorides awards were created to promote the erotica writing community; even the name 'clitorides' is a ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2007/12/13/poll-for-the-clitorides-awards/ Hello everyone, Back on February 15th, 2007, Souvie posted the following in message on Usenet in the ASSD group (alt.sex.stories.d) id Message-ID: <dqk9t2tihhc7as6cf8qv704v44utjfqttk@4ax.com>: I will not be running the awards next year, someone else has taken them over. I'm sure everyone'll find out eventually. In the meantime, it's been fun. ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2007/12/02/new-clitorides-awards-site/ I've implemented some important changes in the story delivery mechanism today. The new system has the ability to deliver long stories or long chapters in multiple pages. Explanation: Storiesonline is a busy site. Very busy site. In order to keep the site running smoothly and responding as fast as possible to readers' ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2007/09/13/story-delivery-changes/ Looking for a story that is supposed to be on storiesonline, but of course, can't remember the author or the title:The main character is hired or rents a house. That night he and the house move back in time. The next night he goes back to the present. The owner ... http://storiesonline.org/blog/2007/09/02/looking-for-a-story/