DemonGoddess

Mulle, One thing that you can do, even though it's not within the story, is create a topic in the forum associated where you have your work uploaded. For example, if you publish in originals, you would go here, choose the appropriate forum and make your topic. Not only can you make responses as long as you want, individually if that's your preference; (start topic, make an individual post to the topic to each reviewer) you're also not limited by word count, unlike in the archive. In the archive, if you have an AN that exceeds 600 words, you can't do it, and we do say something to you. You end up having to edit it, or potentially losing all the work. Anyway, after you make your topic, you put a link in your story (I know the html is not clickable, but it is easy enough to copy/paste or highlight link/follow link) and your readers will see your replies. Not only that, they can in turn respond to you. Without logging in, or creating a login. I do understand authors wanting to respond within the archive, and having their readers respond there as well, but as I've said many times before, the code simply does not support it. Not only that, with the size of the archive database itself, it's much healthier for it, if the answers are redirected to a program which can handle the load better. That has everything to do with how each program handles data inserts, but I won't get in to that here.

Dogs - Pink Floyd

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'> That tag is not allowed in the archive, in that format. Only very basic tag formats are supported. To add an indent, you'd do something like this, using the space tag - <p> text here</p> Without the use of a specific style sheet for each story, which is NOT supported in the software, html requires that you use the space tag to add more than one space before or after any word. To avoid the default line between each paragraph when using the tag, simply make it one large paragraph, as you're wanting to use indents to indicate start of new paragraphs. Where you want the line break for the next paragraph to occur, you would use the line break tag - </br> It can be inserted as either <br> or </br>, does not require an open/close statement.

These links will help you as well. Example in resources forum, and the FAQ giving more in depth of an explanation. Also, if you KNOW the disclaimer will exceed the 240 character limit, you simply put in the field - See full disclaimer below. It helps if you tell us WHERE it is, as well. Often, what people do where they have to add to it, they'll put it on the first page, and edit as they need to.

author corrected shortly after email recieved.

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The reason she is no longer here, and her stories are gone is because I deleted her. The user was underage when she created her login, underage when she posted the stories. As she's just now 18, she can come back.

LOL, it's okay. Gotta remember when they rewrote this thing, many, many things changed, so I'm having to figure out where/how to do stuff in the new version of it.

Okay, did some tinkering. It should now work without having to dig through the skins or rewriting a subroutine

Without having the forum pull data from the archive database, no. As the two programs are incapable of being bridged as it is. What you're talking about would be rewriting an entire subroutine within the files which control the skinning options. It's just as likely that by doing that, I'd make something not work right in the forum. What I can look in to, is the possibility of making a hook for the custom field instead. A hook, once written, can be enabled/disabled, without causing problems throughout the forum. However, that's very low on my to do list. The quickest fix, is a formatting fix, within the skins. Again, you're talking a fair bit of time tracking down exactly WHERE in the skin I have to do this.

In the skins, the text on the LEFT is a label of what is parsed from the database. On the right, is the actual data that was parsed. Except for the link. As it's a custom field, it parses and displays, without having a label. So it's to the left as well. What that means, is that I have to go through the profile skinning options and find where that's controlled, and tinker.

Please don't use the forum to pass someone else's work around. If they wanted it distributed, it'd still be posted.

It's actually right justified in the cell, like the rest of the data there. The problem you're seeing, is that it's parsing the link data, without there being a label preceding it. Just as the other items process that data, and show it to the right. What's on the left is a label, EXCEPT the profile link. I'll have to search through the skins and find where that's controlled.

Cool, this is one of those settings where the major update changed something, and I wouldn't necessarily KNOW about it until someone encountered issues.

Okay, that's what I was after. Try it now, edited one more setting

Try now and let me know if the link field now shows

to Gollumsfriend (bleach archive review) While I can appreciate that you dislike the recaptcha, the entire reason it's there for the review boards, and to add stories, is to keep the authors from being spam bombed in the reviews, and the archive from being spam bombed with unstories. Believe it or not, that was a real problem for a very long time. Captcha/ReCaptcha keeps that from being an issue.

It's in the required fields

Click your "my profile" link (found when clicking your user name, with your messages and etc) Select "edit my profile" Click "change profile information" <--shouldn't have to, that's the default opening tab Edit the link

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Before I add, this is the title?

Yep, that was it. The standard editor works just as well, it's just not WYSIWYG. You can see the tags you're adding to the post, rather than the what you get with the WYSIWYG editor

Monster Mash

Fixed it, that's one link I missed before finding and fixing the others with the rte not working right.