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
Thank you to all of you for your patience through the process. We all appreciate it! I still have some minor things to do relating to it, but nothing that should affect overall site performance. As to why this was done, in order to implement things that we want to implement, the core languages needed to be upgraded. To upgrade the languages, the server OS itself needed to be updated to the latest version. This required a new build, on a new server. It also meant I fell behind on normal stuff I do for the site. Working on getting all that caught up now.
Dribs, Drabs and Doggy Tales
Current weekly prompt is here
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! As a side note, when the site falls short in funds, I end up taking care of it out of pocket. So far, it hasn't been TOO awful, in that it hasn't completely destroyed my budget every month, but still, it's an expense I hadn't allowed for personally, for a long time.
Birthday Verifier page
Is now defunct! You do have a standard cookie setter to access each subdomain, but that's an easy one. Click the “I'm 18 or older” link and that sets the cookie. No more filling the thing out!
Age Verification
If, in the course of checking ages of the members, a user is asked to prove their age, it is kept confidential, and the information not kept for records. One of us simply needs to SEE it to verify, much as when someone is carded.
Deletion notification
For Accounts
When deleting an account because the user is underage, a plagiarist, or whatever else would be a reason to delete one entirely, we do NOT send a notification.
For Stories
When deleting stories, this is done for non compliance with the ToS. Stories are HIDDEN long before they are deleted. The user is told there is an issue, and given 7 days to comply before the story is hidden. Upon hiding, the story is left for 30 or more days (it ends up being more when I have a heavy work load IRL) before it is deleted. If the issue is CORRECTED, the story is restored to public view.
Disposable email
Disposable emails are not checked, and we don’t allow registration with them. Upon finding an account registered with a disposable email address, it is deleted.
Email address visibility
By default, the email address is hidden when you register. It will only display if you put it in the bio area of your profile. In the review boards, if you are asked for your email address when leaving one, you are NOT logged in. If you don’t want your email address visible there, input the word private INSTEAD of your email address.
Forum and archive
These are separate programs. Being separate programs, they also require SEPARATE registration. In other words, registering for one or the other does NOT register you for both.
Disabling anonymous reviews
As a matter of course, while the authors cannot choose this for themselves, anon reviews are enabled on a daily basis. If you don’t WANT to have this enabled, email at technicalsupport@adult-fanfiction.org with a link to your profile, and a subject line of “disable anon reviews”. Bear in mind that when I do this, as this is controlled by the profile, ALL your stories will then require that a user be logged in to leave a review.
Tech Bits
Archive rewrite
We are entering the final phase of this. Please understand that both manta2g and I work full time and then some. It's been a rough couple of years for BOTH of us on that end. That being the case, that means that what we do will slow down, as we do need to take care of our real life obligations first.
Transitional tasks-
These are functions that normally the user would do, but while parts of the software are still the old stuff, it falls to me.
Anonymous reviews turned on/off – The default is to disallow. I run a query daily to ALLOW them. If you DON'T want them enabled for you, email me and I'll make the adjustment.
Old format profile – This is currently inaccessible for user edits. Users can only edit the new profile. So, if there is information in your old style profile that you want gone, again, email me and I will take care of it.
Tech support, directions given
Just to reiterate, when I email out step by step 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!
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