Story Site Issues, Etc.

[underwhere]

First of all, I do realize that this site wouldn't be possible without the generosity of time from all of the people who contribute to it to make it what it is.

I've become a first time story-submitter. I submitted the first part of a story I am working on to the stories section. I realize it will take some time (since that is a volunteer job) for my story to actually appear on the web site. I also understand, from what has been previously stated on the forums, that story submissions are processed on a FIFO (first in first out) method.

What I would like to suggest is this: When stories are submitted to this site, it might be a nice feature to display not just a "thank you for submitting your story" message as I did receive, but also a mention as to the size of the queue (number of stories or story parts) which has accumulated before my submission. It might also be nice to provide updates of the queue status, though I'm not sure where would be the best place to put such a thing....perhaps in the User CP? I think that might provide authors with a better sense as to how long it might take to get their stories live on this site.

Thoughts or comments anybody?

[Torq]

LOL, Good thought and suggestion, just not to pratical.

You are correct most stories are processed on a first i first out, however this is not always the case due to 'issues' with stories that may need re-formatting, or whatever.

As I have asked ALL authors Please be patient it takes time to process these fine stories its simply not just the "push of a button" and just as an FYI I receive approx 125 e-mails per day on an average that I sift thru to get the stories , then its approx 15-30 minutes PER story to process.

If a 'quere' of stories was to be set up it would probally delay the story posting an additional day or two or four or more, depending on the 'depth' of the quere.

Average submission to post for stories runss about 1 week est. or less. Please be patient

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[Faibhar]

"Patience" is, as they say, a virtue. My personal feeling that the composing of a piece is in, of itself, its own reward. The timeliness of the posting must be considered almost secondary.

Naturally, efforts and other influences demand others choose to read the finished product hopefully with their kind Reviews, but that must be considered just so much more "icing on the cake" given the entire process.