BronxWench

John Adams had the benefit of a classical education, and was more than passing familiar with the example of ancient Greece, and the representative democracy of Sparta. Rule by the people without a parliamentary framework tends to fall apart, as can be seen in the case of the Athenian democracy. We don’t educate our children as well these days, which is why we are in the state we’re in. We haven’t learned from history, and we are therefore doomed to repeat it.

For anyone else interested, the links for above: Interest by TwistedHilarity

We actually don’t permit both copies to remain in the archive. We’d allow the old version only until the new version reached the same point, and then the old version would need to be removed.

Sugar Cane by Scurvy – links for above

We don’t have a separate code for that. Oral covers it, though.

Hi, Guest kaif. It would help if you could give me your pen name, or the url to your profile so I can take a look.

Give me a day or two, and I hope to have some sort of answer for you.

Can you log in with your original password? I can email what we have on record for you, if that helps. I don’t want to post it here on a public forum.

Look in the menu bar at the top of the archive. If it says Log in, try it and see if it will let you in with the password you just set. I recall, back when we first changed the code enough to require us all to re-validate, there was a glitch which said we weren’t successful at reactivating, but we actually were. We just had to log out, and then in again. (And this is why non-coders like me resort so frequently to wine… )

I’ll see if I can’t get some insight from our tech admin. I’m as baffled as anyone, since this seems to be a relatively recent occurrence to have so many passwords fail and be unable to be reset.

The under 8 letters/numbers is going to be a problem when you reset, just as a heads up. I’m not sure how you were able to log in with it at all, frankly, since I had to reset mine back in 2012 when the requirement for a minimum of 8 letters/numbers was put in place. But again, I’m not a coder, so I can’t speak as to the mysterious ways of the archive code. Are you using the Password Reset link from the profile menu? I’ve not actually used that one, but I do share a direct link from the FAQ menu which has worked in the past for other members: http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/reset.php We recently changed things around in the archive to accommodate mobile device users, and the left side menus were disabled all over, except in a few limited areas, like profiles. I’m not sure if there’s any error in that bit of coding as a result of the changes.

Hi, I’m not sure what’s up with passwords lately, but… just to ask the obvious, did you try resetting with the same password? That will blank the field and force another reset, which is not good if there’s already a problem. Also, did you use any special characters? Only numbers and/or letters are allowed, and the letters are case sensitive. We also discovered (the hard way) that passwords must be at least 8 letters/numbers long, but can’t be longer than 12 letters/numbers. Hopefully, DemonGoddess061 will have a few minutes to let me know what we can do to fix this. She’s been working egregious overtime lately,.so please be patient with us. She’s the database person, whereas I just know basic troubleshooting.

This, exactly.

It’s very unforgiving about date formats. I tend to use the slash automatically myself, and I’m pretty sure I remember getting that wrong myself when I revalidated.

The format is extremely specific. It must be yyyy-mm-dd. That means, for a birthdate of August 7, 1992, you would input 1992-08-07.

When you click on the author’s name, you’ll be taken to their profile. At the very top, in the url, there is a number at the end. That’s the author’s ID. The FAQ on that is here.

I can so relate to this. I have so many things floating around in my head, but when I try to pin them down, they’re gone, or else the words are awkward, and don’t fit right. I know what I want to say—it’s right there, on the tip of my tongue—but then I try to define it, and the whole mess falls apart in my hands. I’ve decided it will be written when it wants to be written, and I can’t force it, whatever it turns out to be.

I’m glad it was a relatively simple fix for you, and I think we all want an easy way to fix youthful writing.

I *think* I see the issue. There were a couple of stories in Naruto which had the first chapter cut off, and they all had a note at the end of the summary: “Feedback: Constructive please (or glowing if you like) >. “ I’m going to guess this was a text emoticon, but the next symbol, “<” was misread by the archive software and the rest of the text was not displayed. Try editing that out, and see if the rest of the chapter reappears.

I’m in, with details to be filled in, as soon as I can cudgel my brain into working properly. There isn’t enough coffee in the world for today…

I can see the Art Room when logged out, and access the folders. I also think it’s not a bad idea to hash this out here. It’s not like we have hordes of other people chiming in. It’s really mostly staff, JD, and Des. But I do tell our members we take their suggestions under consideration, and I sort of like them seeing that in action, if you will. However, this is a forum matter, and I’m archive, so I leave it up to you two to decide how to handle it.

Our archive code is a customized version of the original package, which is no longer supported, and we’re working within that framework to make the archive as user-friendly as possible. There are limits, however, as well as the additional consideration of trying to make the archive mobile-friendly. A lot of the functionality of previous updates has been reworked (and not always to the better) by that focus on mobile users. And yes, that is a grumble from someone who still likes her phone to be a phone, and who prefers a PC for Internet use. Perhaps in future, our coders will see a way to make that an easier process, but for now, that’s the best we can offer. After the initial work of adding a story, it really is a quick way to access a story or author’s profile, which would have links to all their stories.

We don’t have a button to mark a story as a favorite. However, in one’s archive profile, one can add a story as Recommended Reading, or note an author as a favorite author. That lets you add the link to the author or stories, so you can access them very quickly.

The spoiler tag just hides the image, but it still loads, as far as I know. We have the Art Room thread. Maybe we need to confine all images there, so people can avoid the image-laden posts altogether if they choose? It would be easy enough to moderate that—delete any post containing an image other than an avatar if it’s posted outside the Art Room. If you need to provide illustrations for your challenge or request, do it in PM, or email it. Does that work?

Well, given that it’s not an option, the Web being as politicized as anything else in this world, I think we need to make a conscious choice in favor of protecting our members. To that end, we need to disallow embedded images on the forum. The archive doesn’t allow for members to even post clickable links within stories, and I’m completely fine with that.