Story Site Issues, Etc.

[thepast]

Oh good god, thrall lol. There is no vacation. I was being facetious (sp?). He's been at work 18-20hrs a day the past 19days. Literally. So... stories can wait. Such is life.

[thrall]

The man is worse then i am!!!!.....


So delia...im thinking that the post above might not be such a bad idea...ya do need to chain him down for a bit and make him relax..... lol i hope everything is alright though....

[JimmyJump]

I found that in the BDSM Library, some reviewers, when clicked on their names, show a blank page instead of their user info page. Howzat?

Thanks beforehand.


JJ

[Torq]

Some members were here before the "profile" pages went into place and may have never bothered to update since

T

[JimmyJump]

Since I've been going over all the stories on the site, to recapture those I read and didn't review and in the meantime get aquainted with new material, I saw a lot of people complaining about badly formatted text, font size and even font colour.

First of all, folks should realize that the sometimes odd formatting isn't always the author's doing, but that the site itself often seems to have a little mind of its own.

Secondly, to get rid of eventual flaws, simply right-click the text, pick 'select all' from the pop-up menu and copy the text, to paste it in notepad.

That way, in 90% of the cases, the textfile will appear as intended by the author, with the right font-size, no colours and the right formatting.

Just wanted to add this, in order to make people aware that taking away points from a story because of an odd format, isn't justified in most cases and to point out an easy way of reading a text without problems.


Also, a lot of members seem to have difficulty in adding a review, including yours truly. To avoid being led to an error page, before filling out a reply in the review section, open-up the main forum, or even your own profile page. Since the errors involved seem to be of the variety of cookies not being able to be sent, when the forum- or your profile page are open, a cookie has been sent and accepted already and the adding of a reply in the review section will occur without a hassle...


JJ

[aesexpseudo]

I am writing on a temporary account. In spring and fall 2009 I contributed stories under the user name "aesexual pseudonym."

It seems that most of the functionality has been restored since the server crash, so kudos to the person or persons who pulled a hundred all-nighters to make so much progress.

Just checked in on my stories for the first time in a while, and currently there are two versions of the same story up. Since the story is extremely long, it is bumping other authors on the "Long Stories" listing. The synopses/reviews/counts are all gone, probably due to the server crash (trivial problems compared to the doubling issue, which affects other contributors negatively). Finally, my account is gone (i.e., the "aesexual pseudonym" account).

I have read above in this thread that the good Torquemada is still working on database restoration for minor features, such as the synopses, which is all to the good, however long it takes. However, I have a couple propositions that could solve the above issues much quicker/easier.

In short, my "story" is the first novel of three. The second part of the "story" is almost finished (due for completion in late March 2010). I would very much like to come back here. If that is okay with everybody. If I were to come back, I would obviously post the second part of my story, bringing the total length of the content to 1.3 million words. (Yes, I would break it all into chapters!) So, two proposals.


Let me come back (Please???): Delete all my story content. (Story #1, Unlikely Antichrist, and the short story.) I realize this might take time. I will check every few days. If I find that it has all been deleted, I will re-register as "aesexual pseudonym" and resubmit it, so that it will be there once, correctly, and will not bump other authors.

Don't let me come back (sigh): PM this account to tell me to screw. If so, fine. But in this case, please have the courtesy to delete all my stories, so that readers are no longer confused as to my status and searching for me on every other story site in the Web.


Thanks either way. (But I really do hope you pick Option A!!!)

aesexual pseudonym

[lex ludite]

I don't know why or how I got dragged into this situation, but here goes. Torq is the one you have to convince, and that probably can be done. No one walked away from the December massacre with a whole skin, no one! Life is hard sometimes. As you can guess the poor soul is still up to his ass in alligators, so it might take some time for your request to reach his eyes. That too is life. That's about all I can add to your dilemma. Like yourself, l'm just a writer with my own set of problems. Life is not fair, it can be a bitch at times.

Lex Ludite

[aesexpseudo]

I don't know why or how I got dragged into this situation, but here goes. Torq is the one you have to convince, and that probably can be done. No one walked away from the December massacre with a whole skin, no one! Life is hard sometimes. As you can guess the poor soul is still up to his ass in alligators, so it might take some time for your request to reach his eyes. That too is life. That's about all I can add to your dilemma. Like yourself, l'm just a writer with my own set of problems. Life is not fair, it can be a bitch at times.
Lex Ludite

If you, sir, are just a writer, I am just a lurker. I am honored by your response, and I intend to frame it.

I am cognizant of this website's difficulties, as well as the long hard hours Torq has put in, and the blood, sweat, and so forth that Mistress Delia has expended on this forum as pro tem moderator, dealing with the likes of me.

That said, they do appear to be making slow and steady progress, and this is one of the best boards of its kind, occasional hardware disasters notwithstanding. I acknowledge that a response to my proposals, either way, will take time, but I had to convey them, because I do want to come back.

Thanks again. I love your work. Great chops.

aesexual pseudonym

[Razor7826]

My email service blocks all emails from BDSM Library, it seems, so any emails that are sent to me using the "email this author" function instead of manually creating one using the email address shown in my stories is lost. Can my email address be removed "Send Author Email:" tag on the site?

[Thorne]

Why not use a "throw-away" email, like Yahoo, Google, Hotmail, etc., as your contact email for the Library. You can use that address only for the library, insuring that any emails you receive there will be from members, or the library staff, or the ubiquitous spam. And it's rather simple with those systems to set up the BDSM Library mail client as non-spam.

In fact, I would think twice about using any mail client which doesn't allow you to unblock a particular address (unless, of course, it's a work-related email server.)

[Razor7826]

It isn't even an issue of "spam". Email from BDSM
Llibrary appears to be outright blocked with Hotmail, as in won't go to my inbox, and won't go to my spam folder. I've lost who knows how many emails over the last year because of this, and it really bothers me. And since I don't know which email services block it and which don't, I'd rather just have my address removed from the site entirely.

[thepast]

gmail doesn't get blocked at all--- we are sure that's one that seems to get through. Also, I personally have had success with yahoo, though that might be the "gift of the Admin," I can't speak for general members.

You can't "just remove your email entirely" --your email is required for the site. If you wish to CHANGE your email, you can do so in the User CP--change it to another email acct-- just create one on your own & then viola, change it. That's the best advice, I can give you (assuming I am understanding the issue correctly).

[Razor 7826]

gmail doesn't get blocked at all--- we are sure that's one that seems to get through. Also, I personally have had success with yahoo, though that might be the "gift of the Admin," I can't speak for general members.

You can't "just remove your email entirely" --your email is required for the site. If you wish to CHANGE your email, you can do so in the User CP--change it to another email acct-- just create one on your own & then viola, change it. That's the best advice, I can give you (assuming I am understanding the issue correctly).

Thank you, Delia. I registered an account with gmail, and can now receive email from the Library.

However, because Hotmail blocks all system emails, I can't get the email to confirm the change of email address, and attempting to do so put my old account in lock-down so I couldn't even look for people's email addresses to try to resolve the issue. So, this is an outright new forum account.

Now what do I need to do change all of my stories to this new email address? (razor7826@gmail.com)

[thepast]

Author emails aren't like the others... they have to get changed through a different database, so it's a much more convoluted, jacked up process. Not that it is any consolation to you in the meantime, but... just to let you know why it might take longer... it isn't simply just "click click click, done."

But to get on the list to be changed: You send a PM to Torq w/the issue. Be succinct. Give him your user name the stories are posted under. The old email. The new email you want it changed to.

And then be aware it is going to be added to the loooong list of others he needs to change... and he will do it when he can. But it will get done

All the best,

delia

[Anne Gray]

I've been trying to post my newest story since early December. I realise there have been problems but I've sent it two or three times and contacted the webmaster as well. I have had no reply and wonder if my e-mails are being blocked for some technical reason. Funny thing is that at the same time I first sent the story I also asked to have my profile updated and that happened within a couple of days. Can anyone offer any assistance?
Many thanks. Anne

[SirBosk1]

Your best chance of getting it fixed it to PM Torq directly. As I understand it, he's the one that does the updates for stories. Tiger, the owner, does it sometimes too, I think. So, if contacting Torq doesn't work, try Tiger. Give it a couple of weeks. As I understand it, a lot of effort is still going into recovering from the server crash so they're busy. They still haven't completely reposted all of the stories from that so bear with the admin but I think contacting Torq is your best bet for now. At least your problem will be in queue.

[Anne Gray]

Thanks for your help. Do you happen to have a address for 'Torq'?
Anne

[Polecat]

One question: When trying to review a story, the instructions were to come to the forums to log in and then return to review it. So I did, and returned, and returned and returned.
Is the review program broken?

[Torq]

Will look into it, but you may have caught when we were switching things over. Let me know if issue continues.
Anyone else having same/similiar issues??

Be Well
T

[Polecat]

Issue continues. I cannot review stories.

[aesexpseudo]

Let me come back (Please???): Delete all my story content. (Story #1, Unlikely Antichrist, and the short story.) I realize this might take time. I will check every few days. If I find that it has all been deleted, I will re-register as "aesexual pseudonym" and resubmit it, so that it will be there once, correctly, and will not bump other authors.

Don't let me come back (sigh): PM this account to tell me to screw. If so, fine. But in this case, please have the courtesy to delete all my stories, so that readers are no longer confused as to my status and searching for me on every other story site in the Web.

I know everyone is very busy, so I am not nagging.

But my second novel is done. And I can't post it unless I know that doing so is okay with everyone, and the current double-postings (above) are cleaned up. In short, I would like to see everything under "aesexual pseudonym" deleted, so that I can repost the whole thing from scratch.

Or not.



Thanks,
A.P.

[lex ludite]

Torq has obviously been up to his ass in alligators for openers. Whatever he wants you to do will occur, but at his pace, not yours. I found that out the hard way once. Take my advice and wait another week before bugging him again.

Lex Ludite

[aesexpseudo]

To all concerned (or merely passing through):

The previous message was conveyed with the utmost in humility. Not bugging!

A.P.

P.S. I have just checked the story list and have observed that the duplication appears to have been cleaned up. That step effectively addresses my biggest concern, namely the unintended bumping of other authors from the long stories list. Thanks very much for doing that, whenever it happened. Cheers.

[fallenang_l]

Quick question, well hopefully quick.

I noticed that many of the stories from last posted update had a strange display of broken lines and spaces between each line as in this story - Sweet Little Kitten

Is this a site issue that you are aware of and working on? Also I noticed that the synopsis is fairly bare bones in some compared to others is that due to a bad submission?

I love this site and very appreciative of the work you all do to maintain it.

[fallenang_l]

I noticed that many of the stories from last posted update had a strange display of broken lines and spaces between each line as in this story - Sweet Little Kitten - I find this style incredibly hard to follow & tend to not enjoy those stories as much as the formatted ones.

Is this a site issue that you are aware of and working on? Also I noticed that the synopsis is fairly bare bones in some compared to others is that due to a bad submission? Can there be some thing in the guidelines that demands the style of submission of stories?

I love this site and very appreciative of the work you all do to maintain it.

[Torq]

Stories are posted as they are submited. I can see nothing re: lines/breaks in stories

Thks

T

[aesexpseudo]

per kind requests above.

I have one book posted here, a long one, called UNLIKELY ANTICHRIST, Book One, Nascent.

Book Two is ready. I would like to post it here.

But, my author account (aesexual pseudonym) got killed in the server outage, so the first book is "orphaned." I can't add to the account, or get emails. Also, I can't add the second story.

Could someone (Torq or Tiger) kill the one posted story - that is, wipe it out entirely, so I can re-register with the name "aesexual pseudonym" and start over?

If someone could do that, I'll re-register and post both books - the first one, and the new one.

Thanks,
aesexual pseudonym

[Torq]

OK, For the umpteenth time TONS of Authors got their account e-mail addy erased from the crash.

I am in the process of re-building IT TAKES TIME!!!!!!!!

Once the e-mail addy are re-built all will be well

PATIENCE PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Thks
T

[slave31]

Once I joined, I happily uploaded my PDF stories as such. I didn't know that the process here involved converting all of that into .txts and plain html's, thereby losing all the images and URL's.
Suggestion is: why allow people to upload a PDF?

[Torq]

First, here is a link on how stories are processed that might interest you: http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5447

Second, we allow authors to upload in almost any format that works for them,, that way the uploading process is fair and equal for ALL,,, however,,, .rtf is the preferred format for upload as stories are converted into .html.

Third, urls and the like will be removed from stories if they are advertising other sites, etc,,,