I’m working on implementing the new optional expanded voting form referenced in my previous blog entry Final Decisions. I need some feedback about the wording of the voting form. The form will have three separate criteria for the reader to select values for and I want it to be clear enough about the meaning of [...]
I’ve made an important change to the site today. Tonight will be the last night that weekly counters are all reset to zero. From now on the system will keep track of the last seven days individually for each story. So, the weekly counters will now reflect a story’s downloads in the last seven days [...]
I want to thank everybody that commented and contributed to the discussions in the three previous blog entries, and who made suggestions. It has been educational. I’ve made up my mind on how to proceed next with regards to the voting system. While I don’t like to lose any authors or readers, the current state [...]
Well, it has been an interesting experience to say the least. If you haven’t read my two most recent entries about changes to the scoring system on the site, you should read them. The gist of this blog entry is to tell you that ALL changes to the scoring system have been canceled and reverted. [...]
This is a follow up to my previous blog entry about the changes to the scoring system. If you haven’t read that one, please check it to see what this whole thing is about. This follow up is to address as many of the comments that have been received so far as possible. A simple [...]
Since implementing the scoring system on the site in 1999, it has been the only controversial part of the whole site. Many users found it useful, some didn’t trust it and some ignored it. To authors it’s even more troublesome. Many authors expect the score to tell them how they did in their writing, they [...]
I made few changes to the site in the past few days. I thought I’d talk about them a bit. The first two changes are in the way the voting mechanism and the feedback mechanism work at the end of stories. I’ve added some JavaScripts to make the forms submit to the site and return [...]
Today, Saturday, August 19th, 2006, marks the deployment of a new version of the site’s submission wizard. It’s not a complete re-write but a significant one nonetheless. New features: Shortcuts:Designed for authors with multiple similar postings. For example if you need to post several chapters of a novel, separately, instead of clicking the wizard, then [...]
I’ve made a small change to the email feedback system that all authors should be aware of. From now on, all non-anonymous email messages coming from the site’s feedback system will be coming from ‘feedback’at’storiesonline.net’ with their ‘Reply to:’ field set to the real email address submitted by the feedback sender. The net result of [...]
Lately, I’ve been getting many requests for certain features for the library system, even though those features already exist in the Library, like update dates and a way to track serial stories. So in order to address those requests, I’ve created a page that shows a sample uses of the Library system on the site. [...]