Well, it does. When it rains it seems to come from all sides. Last night, a network outage 10 days after the last one. Tonight, a catastrophic hardware failure in the database servers’ raid at 8:15 pm on the 27th. We’re scrambling to find and configure a replacement. It will definitely take a while and [...]
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 that I could easily subscribe [...]
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 [...]
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 from before, and [...]
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 2008. As of today, [...]
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 reminder of that. So [...]
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. I’m going to email Kenny [...]
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’ requests, the reply [...]
It’s been ten days since the implementation of the new voting system, so I thought I would keep everybody up-to-date with how things are shaping up. First thing to report is that voting is up. The number of basic votes cast per day added to the number of TPA votes cast per day is about [...]
Well, it’s done. Today, I implemented the display changes to show the new system in action. You can read the previous entries in this blog to see how these changes came about. First change is the voting forms. The old form has been redesigned with the new look and the wording has changed. It’s very [...]