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@Desert_Sea, Ack, let me check with DG. I'm not seeing them tick up either, although they are apparently accumulating in the database records themselves. Our coder was working like mad just to get certain features re-enabled. This one is likely still on her list of things to restore. Be patient with us as we get everything up and rolling again.

It should still be accumulating in the general listings, under the Latest Stories page view.

Chrys, thank you! DG and manta are completely amazing, and I really have to say, it's all them. I'm just good at poking the bits as they go up, but they make it all happen, and work.

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That is awesome!

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Oh, eerie! ::shivers happily::

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Lynz, thank you! Any upgrade can be a bit trying and this one decided to be even more so, but we'll get things back to working. It's just often a tedious process given how very large the database of stories is (over 9GB). Shelley, that was another button that was temporarily disabled. I miss that one myself! It will be restored soon, I hope!

Anais_Wannabe on AFF

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staar, you need to be patient. AFF is staffed entirely by volunteers, which means we need to have RL jobs to keep roofs over our heads, and pay for Internet access, and vital stuff like that. DG lost a day's work already, money she won't recoup, and she spent 16 straight hours reading code. manta spent 14 straight hours reading and writing code to get the stories visible again. I'm an author here as well as a moderator. I became a mod to help the site I love. So please, try to do your bit by being patient and not complaining about things we know need to be fixed, and that you know we're working on. Pointing out a new glitch is good. Restating the old stuff doesn't help and is actually frustrating and outright demoralizing, because it makes us all feel like we're supposed to be bots and not people, which is not very pleasant.

I'll quote DG from earlier in this topic: "The odd characters are from the database language upgrade, which means that the database is now utf-8 for charset. This means I have to convert each and every table from latin1_swedish (the old charset from earlier versions of mysql) to utf-8. In the meantime, you can easily fix this by selecting the character set within your browser. Set it to utf8 and the odd images will disappear."

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