DemonGoddess

Just tried and went straight to anime, not anime2

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@24CaratCoal The banner ads have not changed in size. They're still 468x60. If you meant the area in which they're displayed, I could always reduce the physical size of the table, to make it so it's more mobile/touch screen compatible. The table size has also not changed. You're right, on a desktop, this is not an issue. @sherlocked17 No, the hits are still accumulating. The DISPLAY of them relies on old code database calls which will kill things, which is why the display of them in new code is not yet restored. You can see them in the general story listings.

as far as I'm concerned, downrating out of spite is troll behavior

Nope, not miffed. I am a terse sort of person when I communicate. Especially when I'm in the middle of things. What I would LIKE to see with ratings (and I'll go over this with manta) is that who rated how is not necessarily visible, except to staff. Reason for that being when there are stories with 4 and 5 ratings all of sudden getting downrated to 1 and 2? It's a spite thing. I need to be able to find the ones doing it. This would also require login for rating, and it would no longer be truly anonymous. By doing this, it'll kill instances where this is used to abuse authors for no apparent reason. (The reason is almost ALWAYS a disliked pair)

I'm not saying the ratings won't come back. What I AM saying is that they should not come back in their current form. It's been used to abuse authors far too many times over the years.

Rating has not been restored as of yet. Given that people used this as a tool to harass authors who write pairings in some fandoms that they don't like, and downrate it out of spite, I'm pondering never having it return. At least not in its old form of being completely anonymous. I'd like to be able to track that form of trolling, the downrating.

Yup! Manta did a terrific job, as usual!

Reviews are once again enabled, pagination is changed to give next/back arrows now.

I actually use the browser increase/decrease myself.

Your continued patience is helpful! A quick fix for the reviews and nav I was pondering absolutely wasn't going to work. This is why I check before trying it.

No, this is temporary, and has to do with having to rewrite parts of the code quickly to make it so the chapter data showed.

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. Server Upgrade Update There are some issues, which I'm sure you'll have noticed. First of all, when we attempted to upgrade one of the core languages a little bit more (after prepping the site files for it), it made visible some big issues that were already there with upgrading php from 5.1 to 5.3. When we went to 5.4, and then reverted back, the issues that were there stayed there and visible. So,this meant a complete rewrite of the file which shows the chapter data itself. Between Manta2g and myself, that was 30 hours combined, on the 12th. Just to get that part working again. In the process of doing that, there were some things we've not added back yet. This is TEMPORARY. Will be working on restoring: “next” at bottom of chapter chapter numbering hits (these still show in the story listings in the archive, going to see about it in other places) review ability Understand that with the code stuff, I defer to Manta in this (just as she does with me for the database). I will certainly give it my best effort, but any changes I make will not go live until she's had a chance to go over them. We don't want to break things all over again. Odd characters, (diamonds instead of apostrophes as an example) are the result of the database having been changed to utf8 encoding when mysql was updated as part of the server upgrade. Utf8 is the default for later versions of mysql. For the moment, in your browser settings, change the encoding of the page to utf8 from whatever your browser has defaulted to. To completely fix this I have to do a couple things. First, anywhere any header commands reference charset, I'll change that for utf8. Secondly, I have to convert the data from what was default before (latin1) TO utf8. As the database is 9.3GB, this is going to be time consuming. Further, I have to be very, very careful in that I don't scramble anything when I do this. I'll be doing the conversion table by table. Thank you for your continuing patience! 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! (yes I know, I'll get this fixed first) DemonGoddess061

@HP_Reader, The chapters you mention in the first story, display correctly. The second story also loads, but with the diamonds. As I said, to fix that temporarily, set your browser to utf8. As the database is 9.3GB, the conversion is going to take me some time. So rather than wait, I'd go ahead and set that in your browser. In the meantime, I'll also set the charset where it asks for it in the file itself in header information. That'll help somewhat, but won't correct it entirely.

to fix that, set your browser to utf8 for encoding for now. I have to convert the db to that encoding.

It is all being addressed. As I said before, just to get the chapters to display AT ALL took a combined 30 man hours for manta and I, in one day. yesterday, we both opted to give our weary eyes a much needed break. Today, AFTER work, I've got some things I'll look at, and show manta before I even think about going live. Remember, she's the primary coder for a REASON. Just as I'm the primary on database, for a REASON. That's where our strengths lie. Hers in code, and mine in overall db stuff. Which is why BEFORE she does something to the db, we talk first, just as BEFORE I do anything in code, we talk first.

Given that between manta and I, we spent over 30 hours COMBINED working on getting the chapter data to display, you also have to understand that the finetuning will come probably later tonight or tomorrow. The priority yesterday was to get the chapter data to display.

@Mira-Claude Thank you for the kind words!

Hi there, I put numbers next to your concerns, so I can address them. 1. 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. 2. Give me links to some of the truncated ones, and I'll have a quick look. Chances are, that this is also related to the charset change, which is easily fixed with the rich text editor. These are actually things we DO need to know, as you've detailed it, so I know what it is that's happening. That's very helpful

Yesterday, the priority was to get the chapter data to display at all. That's working now. Sure, I understand it's annoying not having "next" and other nav options, but that's something we'll take care of probably tomorrow after our eyeballs get a chance to get rested. Understand that combined, you're looking at over 30 man hours yesterday.

Yesterday, the priority was to get the chapter data to display at all. That's working now. Sure, I understand it's annoying not having "next", but that's something we'll take care of probably tomorrow after our eyeballs get a chance to get rested.

Yesterday the priority was to get the chapter data to display. There is a menu to the left, which displays chapters in sequence.

Here's the situation: Manta had to rewrite the script which displayed the chapters. It's been a very long day for us both, so yes, we also know that you cannot review in the new script yet. She'll be adding that tomorrow.

issues are fixed. review option will be fixed tomorrow

only until tomorrow. The important thing tonight was to get the chapter data to display