DemonGoddess

In Microsoft Edge Click the three dots at the right top corner (“more” displays when you hover) Select “Open with Internet Explorer”. The page then opens in IE 11 In Internet Explorer right click the top of browser, and check “menu bar”. This will display the menu bar to access the options you need. Select View from the menu, scroll to Encoding, select Western from that menu. The black diamonds are now punctuation. In FireFox Click the three bars at the upper right corner Click the encoding icon Select Western In Chrome Version 55 has disabled this menu , much to the great anger of many users world wide. This will fix the issue in any of these browsers, if you follow the steps as outlined. The only subdomain where you no longer need to do this, so far, is books, as we’ve gone through it again, and finished the character conversion.

..and she fixed it!

I have manta looking into it, as I was able to duplicate the issue.

Employment is nice because it pays the bills, but man, I’d rather be doing other things most of the time!

added

I checked in the database, it’s all set the way it should be to allow for adding, which, the option shows up in the upper left corner of the story.

The story was deleted months ago for non correction.

You have to change your browser encoding to WESTERN for Firefox, Windows-1252 for Chrome

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sorry I didn’t look sooner, the post is hidden. You’re both right, that had NO place in this topic.

Harco_Portfoy Germanfanfictioner

It’s something we’re aware of and have been fixing, a story at a time. Given how many thousands of stories are in the archives, it’s going to take awhile.

Our software never DID allow for that, but it’s something we’ve been looking at as far as how to incorporate it. Mind you, just like many other things, this is something that would be coded from scratch.

Category has existed for years, in books. As “Myths”.

October 2, 2016 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. 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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. 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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

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uhhh, where? I see it on as the first on the left, in the top menu for the forum. That’s where I added it, anyway

I know what you were asking about DA, and yes, there was one, and there will be again. I tried to make it via the header, but that didn’t work the way I wanted it to. My response about the SB archives was to Sniper

The archives I referred to were the SHOUTBOX archive files. That was how I understood the question. I can do one of two things here, create a top menu item which links directly, or refine it further to include the subdomains in a drop down. I’m leaning towards the drop down.

Nope, I have to re-add it to the themes.

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