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Febuary will be seeing two sets of updates for the archive, the first of the two major updates is that members are now able to upload thier own avatars into the archive. 15kb max file size though.

SHHHH!!!!!!!!! Next year means a quarter century, Then i'll really start feeling old. Well there is always the comfort that both of you are older then me.

Luck? Luck has nothing to do with it, when it comes to fixing the mess that is the coding in the archives. It takes a good bit of elbow grease, knowledge of the inner workings, and a good deal of patience. Now I'm not sure how long you have been with AFF but I can definitely say that I've encountered most of the admins from just after Ayla left. In fact I was originally brought on to staff before the 3rd year anniversary when the domain name was recovered form yahoo. There was an administration fiasco just after that and another owner took charge and the committee thing began, as well as the original hard coder left, so core coding was left on my plate. The forums are finally being used for what I had intended them for (yes I was the person who originally installed the forums.) The subdivide was my own call as a coder to help stabilize the site since the crashes were caused by a database too large to run stably. I know it caused downtime, though what had extended it was another administration change, and a few admins that didn't like how things were going and I was forced to leave the administration though certain technical things off the server were still in my care. The admin who took over from me was green at best when it came to hard code (I know this because when she was first brought on she needed help in editing her own sites css, and configing of php files). So as I have been going though the hard code I am finding a lot of bad code syntax that had been causing load problems or some features not working like they should. Since none of these things were commented they take a while to find but when we do we fix them, though not always publicly visible. As things stand, considering from when Jaxxy first became owner till the standoff back in September, Jaxxy became owner with the committees from the prior still around and they did not pay much heed to the owners authority, in fact had taken as much as the could away. The September fiasco was decided on more then he said she said, since there are two main items that pinpoints ownership and it can't be changed because some one thinks they should be owner and that is the paperwork (domain registration & Hosting account info). The server contract was illegally changed from Jaxxy's name since her consent was not given and nexcess did have her full contact information. The other was the domain name registration which was in my own care approved by the owners before Jaxxy had ever took over, and the owner prior to Jaxxy had given consent to have it changed over to her. When my successor had e-mailed me demanding the registration to be handed over to her early September, Which is when I got back in contact with Jaxxy to find out that no such authorization was given, and she checked in with nexcess to find out they had changed the account info without her authorization. As per procedure the domain registration information was forwarded to nexcess and the matter was settled fairly quickly. Though after helping Jaxxy re-secure the site, the committees were dropped, and domain registration transferred into her care without a 3rd party. *looks up at post* it's a bit long but it's from my end.... on a lighter note, I've got two new features coming up in February, a few bug fixes, and in the long run the archive software is being rewritten to serve members better. Manta 2nd Gen. Sorry Jaxxy, I know the September fiasco stresses you out, but I really wanted to give my two cents.

*snickers* It may be a nightmare, but its better then in the past when it was one person coding and a comittee who they had to get things spoved before they could do it. now there is no comittee and 3 good coders. Big improvement.

Naughty Admins Tentivly Integrating Various Ideal Toy Yoyo's H Y D R O P H O B I A

The only written content banned by the site for written fiction regarding explicit acts with children, is in celeberty fiction since it is in regards to a real person / people.

I am amused by this thread. I am dreading rewriting the archive back bone code. I am look forward to the holidays. I am not looking forward to inventory I am going to go to bed now.

To quote my own mother, " Be it acident or illness, if they have to put me on life support indefinately to keep me alive, pull the plug or I'll come back and haunt you." I think it's a matter settled amoung family, bit I have to agree with my mother, if the only way to be kept alive is bt life support machines and no chance of living wihtout them, it's really no way to live and best just to let nature take it's course. It's different if it's an emegency matter and the life support is only temperary in order to do repairs/segery to the body so it can function on it's own again once healed up. Just my two cents. It wouldn't surprise me though that if time and nature could be charged with murder for people dying, they would be.

I for one welcome chirtmas music since the rest of the year my boos had bad opera on and it drives me batty. other then that the two big holdays that get celebrated in my household is hte lunar new year (also referd to as chinese new years) abd good old July fist, the day all the smooth talking got us independent of the Brits. A little over 100 years as a dominion, the last 25 as a contry (indipendent contry status gained in 1982).

I have to agree with the bad idea bit, server load is pretty heavy as it is, allowing images would push it futher then I think it can go.

*blinks* what are you talking about?

remove the dash from x-men in the archive tag. x-men should be typed as xmen. this should fix your linking problem.

It's back.. go read site news for more information.

There was some issues earlier in the month with formatting in originals.... while fixing it an older version of latest was put in so that latest stories would still show... it's all fixed now. you can fo to next page and previous page.

It was the < pre > tags that were mucking with your formatting.

Actually It's been there before that, It was only viwable back then by the story owner when they were logged in, it wasn't a public thing, that is recent.

I remembered it and it will be returning as soon as possible.

my original coe is modified so it's only going to be within aff, the outside linking has been removed.

When ever it's been aproved, though it won't be a button, the code makes it so you post your recomended reading list like you do a story, so you can say why you recomend the story.

I've spent aa bit more time and tweaked my recomended reading fix so the only link types are story links to any where in the aff archive. and links to author pages any where in the aff archive. The cahnges were made due to the mods and the owner's concerns that to allow multi outside archive linking could be abused. on the bright side the fix code at a later point can be expanded upon if the descision is ever made to allow recomended stories from other archives.

wich archive are the missing in?

Strange laws where I Live. Winnipeg Manitoba. Manitoba: It is legal to marry your cousin. (who'd want to do that?) Winnipeg: In Winnipeg, it is against the law to go naked in your own home if you leave the blinds up It's illegal to drive down main street unless your horse is weaing a diper. A by-law forbids anyone from striking the sidewalk with a metal object it's illegal to sell bent firewood Canada: No one in Canada may watch or listen to an encrypted broadcast which is not licensed by the Canadian government. It is illegal to kill a sick person by frightening them. It is illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. Not allowed to pay for a 50 cent Item with pennies (Guily of that one)