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Finestories has moved!
Announcement of Finestories.com move
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Slowdowns, Offline and slowdowns follow up
Since the Sunday right before Labor day monday, the sites have been slow. And today, Sunday the 9th or September, the whole server farm went offline from 1:00am EDT ’til 9:40am EDT. Even now that the sites are online, things are flaky with lots of slowdowns and dropped connections. After much investigation, we found that…
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Voting system. Again!
Although I swore I would never discuss scores again because I’ve done it literally hundreds of times since the end of 2006, I will attempt to clarify things here again since there is a lot of misinformation floating around. So the purpose of this post is to keep this info available for the future. First…
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Weekly Download Counter Change
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…
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Final Decisions
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…
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Scoring Changes Follow Up
I canceled the planned changes. Too many authors asked for the removal of their stories from the site. Sorry for all the trouble. 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…
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Scoring System Changes
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…
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Recent Site Changes
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…
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New Submission Wizard Features
Announcing new features of storiesonline’s story submission wizard
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New story reviewing system
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…