First thing, before you proceed.  DO NOT use anonymous browsing for this part.  You can go back to it afterwards.

Be sure to do this from the main page:  https://www.adult-fanfiction.org

1.   No matter WHICH browser, you must clear cache and cookies for ALL TIME.
2.  After doing the clear, close and restart your browser.
3.  Finally, you need to force refresh.  (Press Ctrl+F5)

That should fix the issues.  You should be able to proceed once you do that.

If you’re getting an error about activation, go to the register link and select the drop down option of “resend activation”.

Remember, major software changes generally do require this sort of action.

If, after all this, you’re still experiencing issues with the age verification, in Chrome/Edge, press F12 to access the console.  You’ll see the exact error being generated.  Let us know what it is.

If you are experiencing bugs, please post them to the bug tracker.  What we will need from you are specific steps you took to get the error, and screen shots if you are able.  This will help in getting everything fixed, if there are bugs.

DG

Manta2g has been working her coding fingers for us, to update the archive to support PHP 8.x and other things that sorely needed to be updated.

Members:

• Updated members dashboard
• Members have an account and can log in
• Email system fixed to prevent email providers from bouncing emails
• Activation and password reset bug fixed
• Resend activation option available on login screen (This may be needed if having problems logging in)
• Notifications system (if enabled in profile)
  • Authors receive new review notifications (fixed)
  • stories in the current reading list send notifications when a new chapter is added (New)
• Authors can now report & hide malicious reviews
• Authors can now see who has recommended them
• Authors can see who is currently reading their stories
• Authors can see who has recommended their stories
• Authors can add AFF forum links to review replies and story discussion.
• Authors can now set stories to only be visible to other members (required to be logged in to read)
• Members can now report stories directly from the archive for TOS violations.
• New story manager & editor

Users:

• New archive level search engine
• New archive level advanced search engine
• Stories can now be filtered by tags
• Users are people who use the site without an account.
• Cleaner interface
• Robust authors/members search
• Updated TOS, Content Guidelines, & Privacy Policy
• Content Tags for AI usage
• Updated contact form

Advertisers:

• New advertising system.
  • self serve
  • detailed statistics

Something to keep in mind, once these changes roll out, you’ll need to manually clear your cache and cookies, or the pages won’t draw correctly.

Beta

Feel free to poke around!

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Manta has patched all the editors.  They’re basic, but should work for what is needed.

PLEASE exercise caution, and don’t click on any links you see in these posts. Trust me, there’s nothing good waiting for you at the other end. Practice safe surfing, okay?

THEN in Feb 2018 I had my son. Any Hiddlestoners out here? My son was Born Feb 8^th and his first name is William. Only Hiddlestoners will understand the significance

Well, my son is 6  and attends school now, and I care-take and house keep for my parents in exchange for my son and I living with them. I’m having a few hours a day having an existential crisis that I turned 42 when I wasn’t looking and rather go back to writing but I want to gather, clean up, and beta some of my old stories. How do I do that? Just start a new story and transfer it one chapter at a time? Or do I start a whole new account and transfer from there?

I”m open to suggestions.

Jen

We had a serious set of injection attacks on the archives Tuesday, September 13. This affected story titles and disclaimers being turned into site redirects. To maintain security and protection of our users, the archives are in read-only mode till we figure out how it was done and patch it.

If you posted a story or an update on Sept 13th, it has been lost due to data restoration (backup from Sept 13, 1am).

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this, but have deemed the read-only mode necessary for the time being. 

Update :  We are slowly rolling out of Read-Only Mode. Originally we were going to jut patch it, but it was decided it would benefit members more to roll out Fiction Portal 3.0 which as planned for our 20th anniversary in November. Anywhere you see the new layout, it means that area is no longer in read-only mode.

Fiction Portal 3.0 has some much requested features, changes, and some perks for those who have donated to the site.

Changes:

• Improved Navigation
• Mobile Compliant
• Persistent Logins
• Fixed password reset bug
• Fixed Registration activation bug
• Upgraded visual text editor

Features:

• Inline profile editing
• Story Manager shows up when logged in to the right of archives in side menu (green icon)
• Members directory now features top 50 Recommended Authors. (Recommending Authors now has an impact.)
• Members directory & profiles will show Donors. (A thank you for supporting the site all these years)
• Stories now show recommendations and currently reading counts
• Archives will feature Top Recommended Stories and Top Currently Reading
• One button to add and remove a story from recommended or currently reading lists.

Donor perks:

• Featured in the members directory and profiles
• Extended upgraded visual text editor for chapters and reviews. (Extra formatting options!)

One of the advantages of our new server will be stronger security measures, and we expect the recent spate of missing validation emails to go away once we've completed the transition. Right now, the registration problem is confined to anyone using a gmail address to register. (Our wonderful coder, manta2g, managed to fix the issues we were having with Microsoft email clients.) For the moment, new registrations are being manually updated, to bypass the need for the validation link. It can take 24 hours or so to process the manual updates, and we thank you for your continued patience.

We’ve all had a lot on our plates with the pandemic, wildfires, floods, workplace upheavals, and just about everything you can imagine going on. But as a community of readers and writers, we can always fall back on the worlds we love to bring us some much-needed comfort. So find a good story to read, or write something that’s been tickling the back of your brain, and let’s see if we can find a bit of joy and peace in words.

If you see a spambot post in the Forums, click the little link at the top right corner of the post that reads "Report Post." The moderators will make it go away as quickly as possible. If there are multiple posts, report them all. You can leave a one-word report if you'd like, such as "Spam" or "Spambot" but it's not necessary. When we read the report, we'll know right away what the issue is.

If you see a spambot review in the Archive, and you're the story's author, you can always delete it. If you're not the author, you can report the review using the "Report Review" link in the lower left corner of the review. It does help immensely, since these reports are delivered via email, to drop in that one-word report, but even if you don't, it's pretty easy to see those spambot reviews when the review board is accessed.

What shouldn't you do? Don't click any links. Who knows where most of those links have been? For all we know, they could have taken a quick trip through the malware pool before landing on your screen. Practice safe surfing and don't click anything, especially when the post is in Cyrillic, or German, or some funky font of dubious provenance. We like our members and want you all to stay safe!

For anyone who has participated in these challenges before, welcome back! For new members, these are a great way to refresh your skills, break that writer's block, and get to know some of the other authors on the site. We really hope you'll give it a try, and join in the fun!

 in the time zone local for the server. This update will ensure that the underlying operating system is on a supported patch level.

During this maintenance period, your site may experience a brief service disruption for while the PHP-FPM service is restarted.

We anticipate restarting the service will take less than a minute, with minimal disruption to your service.

We apologize for the brief service disruption, and will work hard to ensure that the outage is as short as possible.

Our server is hosted at a facility in the CENTRAL time zone, so the times given above are 10:00 pm CST and 12:00 am CST – DG

Okay, with the menu being updated so that the site is actually mobile accessible, this means that this was a major change.  As with ANY major change, this requires of the user to clear cache and delete site specific cookies.

In Firefox – 
Click the 3 horizontal lines to access the menu
Click Options (gear icon) to get to the part where you need to do this
In Options, select the Privacy tab
Under History, clear your recent history, then delete individual cookies.  When you click on that, type in adult-fanfiction.org and it will bring up ANY site cookies stored in your browser.  You must delete them ALL
Close your browser and relaunch
You may also need to force refresh (press CTRL+F5) to ensure the changes you just made take complete effect.

In Chrome – 
Click the 3 bars (or dots) to access the menu
Under settings, click Advanced Settings
Under Privacy, select Clear Browsing Data.  Make sure that it is checked to delete the cache and the cookies in the next window.
Close your browser and relaunch
You may also need to force refresh (press CTRL+F5) to ensure the changes you just made take complete effect

February 1, 2017

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. The news posts are always posted to the forum as well, and one does need to register to talk with staff about the news post. Click the forum link!

Software Upgrade

The menu is now mobile friendly. Because this was actually a big change in how sessions calls are made and some other things, you’ll all need to clear your cache, and site related cookies. Once you’ve done that, close and then restart your browser. This should kill any issues you may be having for logging in.

One of the other things with the mobile friendly update, is that it’s being done in stages, so it can be debugged as we go.

As to the logins, please remember that the password field is CASE sensitive, so if you’ve got capitals in your password, the program will be looking for that. If you don’t use the caps where you have them, it won’t accept the password.

The forum has been updated to the latest version. The bug tracker is now here.

Ad Blockers

Our banners are embedded in the site skin. They do not pop up or under. As we use banners to pay the bulk of the site expenses, please consider whitelisting the site in your ad blocking software. We’d greatly appreciate it!

Unlimited subcategory levels

With this ability FINALLY in place, I’m starting to implement it. Where you see this, such as in the books subdomain, where I’ve already moved Anita Blake and Twilight back to their parent categories (where they should be, after all), an empty category will display the latest listing. Be sure to click the menu at the left to get to the story listings for the categories. Non posting categories are, by their nature, EMPTY. Manta2g has told me that she will make it so that the non posting categories will not display the listing where they are children of top level categories. This should make it less confusing.

Reviewing

We’ve made some big changes to the review process. The biggest one is removing the REQUIREMENT of inputting an email address to make an anonymous review. Now, you simply leave the review. Just remember to add your pen name where it’s asked for, so that the author knows who it is!

I have had to disable anonymous reviews globally for all users, due to an influx of spammers. If you want to reset your account to accept anon reviews, you can. I would suggest until we figure out how they’re getting around the anti spam stuff we have in place, that you don’t.

While I’m on the subject of reviews, I’d just like to remind readers that the authors get paid nothing for what they do. I’m not saying leave a review to fluff ‘em. What I AM saying is that at least acknowledge you read what they wrote. Maybe it’s an old fashioned thing because I’m an older gal, but I feel if I’m going to take the time to READ something, I’ll take the extra minute or so it takes to acknowledge I read the chapter (or in some instances one shot). When I have more time to be more verbose, I am. BUT, even when I don’t HAVE a lot of time, I still at least say that “hey, I read it, and thank you for the update” or something along those lines.

To the authors, a reminder that you can set or unset whether or not you receive anonymous reviews in the first place. Not all authors want anonymous reviews, which is why the option is left TO the author. The author is also able to set or unset whether or not to receive an email when a review is left.

Story Tags

One of the other things we do, as we go through each chapter, is to go through the story properties and remove the non-searchable characters from the tags. With the search made to where you can search with two or more characters, instead of four or more; this made it so you can search the tag field itself now. In order for it to work properly, this means that the ‘/’, ‘&’, ‘-’ and other characters like that that are not searchable have to be removed from the tags themselves. i.e. M/M becomes MM, M/F become MF, etc. If the tag you’re searching for doesn’t appear, try adding “*” after it. It broadens the search.

Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales

This is the forum where they all are listed. This is the current one. These are open ended, so if one set of words doesn't work for your muse, look at others!

Funding Status

As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! I'm in the process of setting aside an emergency fund, equal to 3 times the monthly expenses. That will be noted on the donation page as well.

Email address visibility

By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile.

Tech Bits

Archive Cleanup

Now, because of the new tools that I (and other staff who do this with me) have at our disposal, this should proceed at a much faster pace. For example, I fixed a 52 chapter story with errors from the old crash in 4 ½ hours last week. That same story, fixing it the way I had to before, would’ve taken me roughly 40 hours to get the exact same results. The new tools make it so I cut out several steps in the process, as I no longer have to do this all directly in the database itself. It also means that the people who help me with clean up, can help me with this part as well, not just finding the issues and giving them to me, which is what we did before.

Something which I do want to stress with you all, is that I completely agree with what was said during the restoral after the big crash in 2005. It’s really not the responsibility of the users to fix all this. It’s the SITE’S responsibility. This is why I don’t insist that people fix it themselves. Does it help to have users do this to? Sure it does! But, I don’t expect it, as it’s the responsibility of the site.

Tech support, directions given

Just to reiterate, when I email out step by DIRECTIONS on how to do something, that is exactly what they are. Not suggestions, but directions. If followed as stepped out, it works very well. This means that the user must follow them in the order the steps are given.

Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing!

DemonGoddess061

I’ve finally updated Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales.  Sorry all, been working entirely too many hours IRL.

Link to the newest..

The chat is open to guest users!  

We do expect people to not indulge in flame wars in chat, try and cause issues for other users, and the like.  If that does happen, the mods and I all have the capability of booting anyone from the chat.

The coder had a glasses mishap, and as she and I are BOTH blind as bats without our extra eyes, she has understandably only started back on the coding once she got replacements.

I’ve updated the how to avoid the black diamonds.

That’s it for now!

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. The news posts are always posted to the forum as well, and one does need to register to talk with staff about the news post. Click the forum link!

Software Upgrade

Thank you to all of you for your patience through the process. We all appreciate it!

The front end has a few more things to have done. Currently, manta2g is developing a new menu which will be mobile friendly/accessible. After that, she'll be working on selectable skins. Of course, the other bells and whistles you've all asked for as well, such as one click add to rec reading, currently reading, and etc. These are all on her to-do for that.

PHP has been upgraded to version 5.6.x. ALL the software is compliant, up to version 7 of PHP.

The forum has been updated to the latest version. The bug tracker is now here.

The Black Diamonds from Hell

This is a result of the character conversion, and the many, many character sets which lived in the database at the time. What happened was, where the character sets were not latin1, as they should have been, the conversion changed the character set to ANSI (Western, Windows-1252) instead of utf-8. The good part, is that means that the data was not lost, as I was expecting. The bad part is the damn diamonds. I’ve written up something to show you HOW to change your browser encoding so that the diamonds show as the punctuation that they are.

In the meantime, we are going through each story manually, and finishing the character set conversion. This is time consuming, so please use the information at the above link. The only subdomain that is finished with the finalizing of the conversion is books. I’m currently working buffy, and the other gal is working in cartoon. Once I finish in buffy, I will move on to celeb, and so on. I will let you know as each subdomain is finished.

Ad Blockers

Our banners are embedded in the site skin. They do not pop up or under. As we use banners to pay the bulk of the site expenses, please consider whitelisting the site in your ad blocking software. We’d greatly appreciate it!

Unlimited subcategory levels

With this ability FINALLY in place, I’m starting to implement it. Where you see this, such as in the books subdomain, where I’ve already moved Anita Blake and Twilight back to their parent categories (where they should be, after all), an empty category will display the latest listing. Be sure to click the menu at the left to get to the story listings for the categories. Non posting categories are, by their nature, EMPTY. Manta2g has told me that she will make it so that the non posting categories will not display the listing where they are children of top level categories. This should make it less confusing.

Reviewing

We’ve made some big changes to the review process. The biggest one is removing the REQUIREMENT of inputting an email address to make an anonymous review. Now, you simply leave the review. Just remember to add your pen name where it’s asked for, so that the author knows who it is!
While I’m on the subject of reviews, I’d just like to remind readers that the authors get paid nothing for what they do. I’m not saying leave a review to fluff ‘em. What I AM saying is that at least acknowledge you read what they wrote. Maybe it’s an old fashioned thing because I’m an older gal, but I feel if I’m going to take the time to READ something, I’ll take the extra minute or so it takes to acknowledge I read the chapter (or in some instances one shot). When I have more time to be more verbose, I am. BUT, even when I don’t HAVE a lot of time, I still at least say that “hey, I read it, and thank you for the update” or something along those lines.

To the authors, a reminder that you can set or unset whether or not you receive anonymous reviews in the first place. Not all authors want anonymous reviews, which is why the option is left TO the author. The author is also able to set or unset whether or not to receive an email when a review is left.

Story Tags

One of the other things we do, as we go through each chapter, is to go through the story properties and remove the non-searchable characters from the tags. With the search made to where you can search with two or more characters, instead of four or more; this made it so you can search the tag field itself now. In order for it to work properly, this means that the ‘/’, ‘&’, ‘-’ and other characters like that that are not searchable have to be removed from the tags themselves. i.e. M/M becomes MM, M/F become MF, etc.

Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales

This is the forum where they all are listed. This is the current one. These are open ended, so if one set of words doesn't work for your muse, look at others!

Funding Status

As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! I'm in the process of setting aside an emergency fund, equal to 3 times the monthly expenses. That will be noted on the donation page as well.

Deletion notification

For Accounts

When deleting an account because the user is underage, a plagiarist, or whatever else would be a reason to delete one entirely, we do NOT send a notification.

For Stories

When deleting stories, this is done for non compliance with the ToS. Stories are HIDDEN long before they are deleted. The user is told there is an issue, and given 7 days to comply before the story is hidden. Upon hiding, the story is left for 30 or more days (it ends up being more when I have a heavy work load IRL) before it is deleted. If the issue is CORRECTED, the story is restored to public view.

Disposable email

Disposable emails are not checked, and we don’t allow registration with them. Upon finding an account registered with a disposable email address, it is deleted.

Broken resource links

Thank you to the users who thwacked me with the information that they weren’t working. I feel terrible, I should have looked when the forum had its last big upgrade. I saw the change in path, and it just didn’t occur to me to check the linkage in the site pages. Sorry about that, but it’s now fixed.

Email address visibility

By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile.

Tech Bits

Archive Cleanup

Now, because of the new tools that I (and other staff who do this with me) have at our disposal, this should proceed at a much faster pace. For example, I fixed a 52 chapter story with errors from the old crash in 4 ½ hours last week. That same story, fixing it the way I had to before, would’ve taken me roughly 40 hours to get the exact same results. The new tools make it so I cut out several steps in the process, as I no longer have to do this all directly in the database itself. It also means that the people who help me with clean up, can help me with this part as well, not just finding the issues and giving them to me, which is what we did before.

Something which I do want to stress with you all, is that I completely agree with what was said during the restoral after the big crash in 2005. It’s really not the responsibility of the users to fix all this. It’s the SITE’S responsibility. This is why I don’t insist that people fix it themselves. Does it help to have users do this to? Sure it does! But, I don’t expect it, as it’s the responsibility of the site.

Tech support, directions given

Just to reiterate, when I email out step by DIRECTIONS on how to do something, that is exactly what they are. Not suggestions, but directions. If followed as stepped out, it works very well. This means that the user must follow them in the order the steps are given.

Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing!

DemonGoddess061

P.S. On a PERSONAL note! My team won the World Series! I’ve been waiting my entire LIFE for this!!!!!

Okay, I’m done spazzing about it for ya. - DG

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. The news posts are always posted to the forum as well, and one does need to register to talk with staff about the news post. Click the forum link!

Software Upgrade

Thank you to all of you for your patience through the process. We all appreciate it!

The front end has a few more things to have done. Currently, manta2g is developing a new menu which will be mobile friendly/accessible. After that, she'll be working on selectable skins. Of course, the other bells and whistles you've all asked for as well, such as one click add to rec reading, currently reading, and etc. These are all on her to-do for that.

PHP has been upgraded to version 5.6.x. ALL the software is compliant, up to version 7 of PHP.

The forum has been updated to the latest version. The bug tracker is now here.

Site Outage of September 15

BIG thank you to the techs at Nexcess, particularly Ryan and Chris! They found the intruder who attempted to DDoS us, and blocked them. Thing is, when the service provider does the blocking, you can bet they have many more tools than I do, to make it STICK.

One thing this did, was uncovered where we needed to tighten security in the code even further. That has been done as well. Manta2g took care of that the same day.

I do apologize for not getting it fixed sooner than 8 hours after all this started, but I was at work through most of it, with no computer access.

Ad Blockers

Our banners are embedded in the site skin. They do not pop up or under. As we use banners to pay the bulk of the site expenses, please consider whitelisting the site in your ad blocking software. We’d greatly appreciate it!  The art is great!

The Comics chapter table

Restoration of the corrupted data is finished.

Unlimited subcategory levels

With this ability FINALLY in place, I’m starting to implement it. Where you see this, such as in the books subdomain, where I’ve already moved Anita Blake and Twilight back to their parent categories (where they should be, after all), an empty category will display the latest listing. Be sure to click the menu at the left to get to the story listings for the categories. Non posting categories are, by their nature, EMPTY.

Oddball characters in place of punctuation

This happened as a direct result of there being entirely too many character sets within each table. As I’ve said before, I stopped counting after I hit 12 or so that I found. I found many more after that. What happened, is that when I ran the conversion to utf8, where it was not a normal characters set which the query series expected, it converted the text instead to ANSI (Windows-1252). This is important, to know what it converted to, so you can do the temporary fix while I go through each and every individual chapter throughout the archive.

In your browser, set the text encoding to Windows-1252. This option should be in any browser’s “tools” setting. Except for Edge. I can’t find it in Edge. Urrgh.

Once I have finished the edits to finalize the character set conversion for the affected chapters, this is something you’ll no longer need to do. I will let you know progress on where this is finalized.

Reviewing

We’ve made some big changes to the review process. The biggest one is removing the REQUIREMENT of inputting an email address to make an anonymous review. Now, you simply leave the review. Just remember to add your pen name where it’s asked for, so that the author knows who it is!
While I’m on the subject of reviews, I’d just like to remind readers that the authors get paid nothing for what they do. I’m not saying leave a review to fluff ‘em. What I AM saying is that at least acknowledge you read what they wrote. Maybe it’s an old fashioned thing because I’m an older gal, but I feel if I’m going to take the time to READ something, I’ll take the extra minute or so it takes to acknowledge I read the chapter (or in some instances one shot). When I have more time to be more verbose, I am. BUT, even when I don’t HAVE a lot of time, I still at least say that “hey, I read it, and thank you for the update” or something along those lines.

To the authors, a reminder that you can set or unset whether or not you receive anonymous reviews in the first place. Not all authors want anonymous reviews, which is why the option is left TO the author. The author is also able to set or unset whether or not to receive an email when a review is left.

Story Tags

One of the other things we do, as we go through each chapter, is to go through the story properties and remove the non-searchable characters from the tags. With the search made to where you can search with two or more characters, instead of four or more; this made it so you can search the tag field itself now. In order for it to work properly, this means that the ‘/’, ‘&’, ‘-’ and other characters like that that are not searchable have to be removed from the tags themselves. i.e. M/M becomes MM, M/F become MF, etc.

Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales

This is the forum where they all are listed. This is the current one. These are open ended, so if one set of words doesn't work for your muse, look at others!

Funding Status

As always, we appreciate and thank everyone who can donate. It's certainly not required of the users, but every little bit helps! I'm in the process of setting aside an emergency fund, equal to 3 times the monthly expenses. That will be noted on the donation page as well.

Deletion notification

For Accounts

When deleting an account because the user is underage, a plagiarist, or whatever else would be a reason to delete one entirely, we do NOT send a notification.

For Stories

When deleting stories, this is done for non compliance with the ToS. Stories are HIDDEN long before they are deleted. The user is told there is an issue, and given 7 days to comply before the story is hidden. Upon hiding, the story is left for 30 or more days (it ends up being more when I have a heavy work load IRL) before it is deleted. If the issue is CORRECTED, the story is restored to public view.

Disposable email

Disposable emails are not checked, and we don’t allow registration with them. Upon finding an account registered with a disposable email address, it is deleted.

Email address visibility

By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile.

Tech Bits

Archive Cleanup

Now, because of the new tools that I (and other staff who do this with me) have at our disposal, this should proceed at a much faster pace. For example, I fixed a 52 chapter story with errors from the old crash in 4 ½ hours last week. That same story, fixing it the way I had to before, would’ve taken me roughly 40 hours to get the exact same results. The new tools make it so I cut out several steps in the process, as I no longer have to do this all directly in the database itself. It also means that the people who help me with clean up, can help me with this part as well, not just finding the issues and giving them to me, which is what we did before.

Something which I do want to stress with you all, is that I completely agree with what was said during the restoral after the big crash in 2005. It’s really not the responsibility of the users to fix all this. It’s the SITE’S responsibility. This is why I don’t insist that people fix it themselves. Does it help to have users do this to? Sure it does! But, I don’t expect it, as it’s the responsibility of the site.

Tech support, directions given

Just to reiterate, when I email out step by DIRECTIONS on how to do something, that is exactly what they are. Not suggestions, but directions. If followed as stepped out, it works very well. This means that the user must follow them in the order the steps are given.

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Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing!

DemonGoddess061