Topic Lush Mobile available features?
Posted 25 May 2013 03:02
The mobile version of lush is really for people who want to view stories only. There's no log in, voting etc.
If you wish to do that on your mobile, you can view the full site instead. There's a link at the bottom of the mobile version to do so.
There hasn't been a demonstrable demand for us to code a fully functioning user interactive mobile version of the site.
Topic This guy fucking loves his car!
Posted 25 May 2013 01:54
After seeing it was a link on the stile project, I decided not to click...
Is anything ever going to surpass this photo on the subject though? It's timeless...(well, looks like the 80's judging by the hair):
http://upload.lushstories.com/958182211-car-sex.jpg
Topic Announcing our $100 Attention Whore Competition! (1-30 June 2013)
Posted 24 May 2013 17:25
My money is on Alan for the guys! That man sure has learnt the networking ropes over the last few years...
I'll take the stats directly from Google Analytics on our web server, I don't think we'll mess around with a leaderboard this time around, unless Gav says it's easy to do.
Topic Fuck off ~
Posted 23 May 2013 15:32
Mange la merde. (Quebecois)
I think Canada and I'd get along. My French is pretty much fluent.
Topic Announcing our $100 Attention Whore Competition! (1-30 June 2013)
Posted 22 May 2013 21:07
yep - i'm backing Summer. that girl's going to get double the hits of her nearest competitor. in fact, i'm going to ask her if i can manage her PR blitz :)
The last person you "helped" in this competition, had a nervous breakdown and was never seen again. I think she'll do just fine!
Topic What do you think about Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr?
Posted 22 May 2013 19:51
Yahoo will destroy Tumblr or lose their ass financially on the acquisition.
If I ever buy an internet stock it is with the sole purpose to turnaround and sell quickly (hopefully at an inflated value.)
I can sell you lushstories.com for $50m (Gav included).
Topic Announcing our $100 Attention Whore Competition! (1-30 June 2013)
Posted 22 May 2013 18:37
It's time to see who can attention whore it up the most, and get the greatest number of profile views in the month of June.
$100 is at stake as the prize.
The rules are simple, the person with the most profile views in June, will win. The stats are recorded in our server logs, and only unique views count (so there's no point spending all day pressing F5 on your browser 
).
You have 1 week to get your strategies organised, and then the competition will begin.
Good luck!
http://upload.lushstories.com/1389531360-AttentionWhoreEsc.jpg
Topic forum signature
Posted 22 May 2013 18:12
Go BIG or don't go at all.
At least 750 pixels in height should be sufficient though.
http://upload.lushstories.com/1628847473-tumblr.gif
I think you'll also need 20+ posts for it to appear.
Topic Support Gold membership....
Posted 22 May 2013 04:37
Very nice of you to say Summer. We don't usually beat our own drum around here, maybe it's good somebody does so on our behalf 
Topic Excellent Work with the Servers Gav!
Posted 21 May 2013 04:11
It's 9pm Australian time, and we no longer have the backup lag / downtime for half an hour or so, we used to.
Brilliant job doing whatever it is you did with the servers and mirrors (there's glass in computers these days?) over the weekend Gav
http://upload.lushstories.com/1337524351-Elephant-on-trampoline.gif
Topic What do you think about Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr?
Posted 20 May 2013 23:07
I agree with LadyX.
They've been screwing everything up they've touched for the last decade. Their search engine has been powered by Bing for the last few years, they aren't even using their own search technology anymore.
I'm amazed they haven't gone under already.
Coming soon to tumblr...
http://upload.lushstories.com/975024954-yahoo.png
Topic What do you think about Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr?
Posted 20 May 2013 21:32
http://www.news.com.au/technology/biztech/yahoo-to-buy-tumblr-from-ceo-david-karp-for-11-billion/story-fn5lic6c-1226646382637
One Tumblr user wrote: "Dear Yahoo, Please don’t turn this safe haven into a data mine. Our thoughts are not for sale. We came here because we didn’t want to be found. It was safe here. We could be ourselves. It was the last corner of the internet we could truly call our own. Purchasing this site will kill the core of what it is: the last remaining trace of humanity on the web. If you buy this site, we will leave and find somewhere else to start again. We are not for sale. We cannot be bought."
The next myspace.com failure?
If they try and change it / clean it up, there's going to be all hell break loose. If they don't change it, I can't see the value in it for them, other than for the sake of owning such a "cool" domain in their stable.
I can't see them being happy with that, can you?
Topic New recommendation symbol
Posted 20 May 2013 15:10
Although I value feedback, this thread is not the primary reason it was changed.
I liked the thumb better from the off, and seeing the ticks on the site, reminded me of the reasons I wasn't keen on the tick in the first place.
Excellent work on the graphic Liz, thank you
Topic New recommendation symbol
Posted 20 May 2013 03:09
http://www.lushstories.com/images/recommendedstory.png
fyi - it's been changed to the above. ok, i am outta here.
OMG I HATE it, I'm never submitting anything of mine again. 
Topic Looking for a story about seduction
Posted 19 May 2013 21:07
The author pulled it for some reason known only to themselves.
Use google to find Aramis's blog, it's on there.
Topic Stolen Audios and Stories
Posted 19 May 2013 19:24
I've taken ownership of that account.
Nowhere in their interface can you add a URL to the original file.
According to the logs, there have only been 7 downloads across all the audio stories, in the entire time they have been up.
It would seem podcasts.com aren't exactly a hot destination for audio erotica lovers.
If anybody wants their audio removed, I should now be in a position to get a response from them. There's no "delete audio story" option in their interface either. Hopeless.
Topic Stolen Audios and Stories
Posted 18 May 2013 14:52
Everyone needs to calm down a little.
1) Podcast directories, like podcasts.com, are great places to get free links back to lushstories.com. We submitted our podcast RSS feed to a number of such directories, about 5 years ago. It's a good way to get free traffic.
Those directories, are meant to give full credit to the narrator, ie, a full link back to the page, from which the audio was taken.
It seems our "friends" at podcasts.com, no longer do that.
They mention us, but at the same time, there's no link. I don't like their tagging either, it has our main competitor's site in there.
I will write to them today, saying that unless they give us a link back from each page which has our audio on it, they should remove all our stories.
Before "going off" in the forums about these kind of matters, it's always best to check with either myself or Gav first. The same goes for blogs and other sites that might be using our story RSS feeds to add story snippets to their sites, invariably they are using them in the correct way, and we get a link back.
2) I am aware of the google play thief, and we are working on it. I don't expect we or anyone else will get any joy from them. They knocked back our APP 3 times, which was set up to help protect authors from these kind of story thieves. Our app was rejected, yet the others remain. Make of that what you will. I argued with them until I was blue in the face about it, they simply ignore you after a while. Such a wonderful business practice...
Topic Is The Site Acting Up for Everyone?
Posted 17 May 2013 16:17
There was a scheduled outage yesterday, hence why it was down for a few hours.
We have added another server, to address the downtime experienced during backups. These new measures should hopefully keep the site up 24 / 7 now.
Topic New recommendation symbol
Posted 16 May 2013 23:55
I'm seriously having difficulty understanding what the animosity is towards an award, which was set up to help highlight stories considered way above the norm.
It's a white tick on a blue background. It can be changed to any design whatsoever.
Some people really do need to get out more.