WillowDarkling

No worries, we banter, and do try our best to not be stabby with the newbies    
And I do try my best to answer questions as best I can too   

Others...don’t mind the blood stains

don’t tempt me, I can get stabby when feeling generally unwell   

don’t tempt me, I can get stabby when feeling generally unwell   

I’ll go pop some popcorn and watch ‘ya all slug it out 🤪

I never put the 10 line thing in the FAQ because it only applies to the Challenges and Requests forum, since that’s where we’ve had the largest issue with people posting story content. On the rare occasions it has popped up in the Fan Fiction forum, I’ve just quietly edited the posts to comply to the ten lines rule, and left a post telling people that we don’t allow story content in the forum. Because we don’t allow story content in the forums. It’s first and foremost a copyright issue, and then as BronxWench pointed out, the forums are supposed to be a place for us to chat, bitch and moan, drum up support for writers and be a community. 
The only reason I allowed it in the Promote a Story forum was to be nice because of the Read Only mode having been going on for so long. And as I said above, I will be rescinding that rule as soon as we’re back up and running. 
And it doesn’t matter at all from where in the story those ten lines come from. Not at all. 
As for me obviously not having read your original question properly this morning (I claim lack of morning caffeine and general unwellness) the Promote a Story forum is exactly the place to post all the details you want about your story. 
There is a standard form to include in the first post in that forum, but in addition to that standard form, you can include whatever you want about the story, as long as it isn’t purely story content. So, go nuts, put in a chapter by chapter detailed description if you want to. That means something like the following: 

”Chapter 4. Jack and Jill fight over who gets to carry the bucket up the hill, Jill has a mean right hook and Jack learns that getting falsies is a fucking pain in the ass, but at least it’s less expensive than the new glass eye he’s going to need.” 
But NOT the following: 
”Chapter 4. [The actual story content describing the ridiculousness above].” 
Does that make sense? 

I may be in need of my morning caffeine, but I’m not sure I get what you mean by “details”. If you mean something like a book cover blurb, which don’t contain any actual story content, then I think 10 to 15 lines of text should be ok, but then ONLY in the Promote a story forum (in the thread for your story) or the Great Wall. 
But if you mean something that contains story content, then like BronxWench said, it’s restricted to 10 lines or less. 
I only allowed the 35 lines of text for a preview in the Promote a Story forum because we’ve been in Read Only mode for so long, and I wanted to allow our writers a little bit of a leeway. But as soon as the Archives are back out of Read Only mode, that allowance will be rescinded and the posts containing story content in the Promote a Story forum will be cut down to the allowed 10 lines. 

I never put the 10 line thing in the FAQ because it only applies to the Challenges and Requests forum, since that’s where we’ve had the largest issue with people posting story content. On the rare occasions it has popped up in the Fan Fiction forum, I’ve just quietly edited the posts to comply to the ten lines rule, and left a post telling people that we don’t allow story content in the forum. Because we don’t allow story content in the forums. It’s first and foremost a copyright issue, and then as BronxWench pointed out, the forums are supposed to be a place for us to chat, bitch and moan, drum up support for writers and be a community. 
The only reason I allowed it in the Promote a Story forum was to be nice because of the Read Only mode having been going on for so long. And as I said above, I will be rescinding that rule as soon as we’re back up and running. 
And it doesn’t matter at all from where in the story those ten lines come from. Not at all. 
As for me obviously not having read your original question properly this morning (I claim lack of morning caffeine and general unwellness) the Promote a Story forum is exactly the place to post all the details you want about your story. 
There is a standard form to include in the first post in that forum, but in addition to that standard form, you can include whatever you want about the story, as long as it isn’t purely story content. So, go nuts, put in a chapter by chapter detailed description if you want to. That means something like the following: 

”Chapter 4. Jack and Jill fight over who gets to carry the bucket up the hill, Jill has a mean right hook and Jack learns that getting falsies is a fucking pain in the ass, but at least it’s less expensive than the new glass eye he’s going to need.” 
But NOT the following: 
”Chapter 4. [The actual story content describing the ridiculousness above].” 
Does that make sense? 

As long as you keep the details down to about 10 lines or less, I think you’d be fine. What we don’t want is to have story content posting in the forum, because the forum isn’t the place for it. This is where we go as authors to ask questions, drum up support from fellow writers, share tips, commiserate, and bitch.  

That was one of the causes of hiccups, I do believe, but manta was able to get past it.

Success!
I do have a VPN if that helps at all.

I just received word that the site should hopefully be back up and accepting new posts again soon. I want to give a big thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to get the site back online, and a huge thank you to all of my fans who have been so understanding and patient. I hope that my work will have made the wait worth it

I did send you an email directly. Check your Spam or Junk folders… unless it got caught up in Yahoo’s snit about getting too many emails from AFF. Apparently, Yahoo thinks we’re spamming.
I sent you the email in DM, with the links. Take that, Yahoo! 

I’m adding this to my email text:
Password rules recap:  Between 12-18 letters and/or numbers long, case sensitive. NO punctuation, spaces, or special characters allowed. Do NOT use your old password, or let Google make a strong password full of forbidden characters for you.

Both activation, and PW reset went through successfully. Thank you! 😁😁😁

For the password reset, are you ensuring there are at least TWELVE characters in the password?  When I first did it, I used 9, and then remembered I needed to use 12.  Once I did that, it worked just fine.  I had to have the validation/password reset resent to me like many of you, as I was one of the approximately 1% of users to where it didn’t work right.

Thank you, Ellie, for letting us know how it worked for you! We greatly appreciate the input. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

Sorry, I got caught up in all the excitement of the site coming back online. I'll keep waiting for updates.

The archive is still in read only mode so you can’t post new chapters or stories. At the moment we are working on verifying user accounts as a first step towards reopening the site, so bear with us a little longer.
 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator 

I’m glad it worked! 
I always remember what my IT guys used to tell me. Either log out and log back in, or just turn it off, count to 30, and turn it on again. It generally worked!

Manta said that the emails are getting sent out based on registration date, so if you’re new-ish you’d be near the bottom of the list, but hopefully you’ll get it soon and won’t have a problem with activating and resetting. Just read the instructions BronxWench has been posting in response to users having a problem, but let us know here if the instructions don’t work for you. 

Not all is doom and gloom.  My validation and password reset email came in a few minutes ago.  The validation link already had “password” stripped out, and worked on the first try.  Likewise, the password reset link, which I used after the validation link, also worked on the first attempt.
Thanks.

I left this post in Hall of Shame because I thought it was a good place where people would actually see it, clicking on it out of curiosity. But it’s moved now. Hope this is a more appropriate place for it. So, that’s on me, not on George. 

Since our archive staff is unable to delete user accounts at the moment, due to the Archive being in read only mode, I am creating and pinning this thread here for anyone who would like their Archive account deleted, to try and make things easier for the Archive mods. 
What we will need is your Archive user name, and a link to your profile would make things go a lot more smoothly. And if you have a forum profile a link to that would be most helpful as well, since that will be deleted when there is no archive profile associated with it. 
And please be patient with us, our coder and admin are working their butts off to get this whole thing sorted. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

thanks for the suggesting Bronx! if you take password out on the end it works. im already got my new Password and cant wait to get back on!!