I just read that the site is getting 250 requests per day, mostly about log-in problems. Sorry, I sent a couple myself. The problem I had was that I didn't realize that I had to fill out the "seeking" profile first. It just wasn't clear to me that it was necessary, because I already had a profile. Another member clued me in (on another site's forum) and then it worked. I did have to reset my original avatar image, however.

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Did you know that anyone can select the words of anyone's story and cut and paste them into word and then modify them. I think this is a huge bug that should be addressed very soon.

This has been brought up before, I think. Just want to clarify... do you mean you can copy a story to your own computer? I'm assuming you don't mean you can change someone else's story here.

This has actually always been possible from a phone or a tablet. Not being able to cut/paste from a PC might give a false sense of security, but in reality scraper sites and anyone wanting to plagiarise content won't be deterred I'm afraid. 

I noticed this as well... on the old site I could not even copy my own stories if I just opened them up normally. I had to go into edit mode to be able to copy them. Now I can copy any story. I realize a determined person could find a way around it, but at least it deterred some people. For a supposed writing site, writers do seem to have taken the biggest hit in the name of "progress".

It was always possible on two other sites with older software - I mean with a desktop. I just tried it again to make sure. I never experimented with Lush text. Unfortunately a lot of stuff on the Internet can be just copied - most images, for example. It could be protected, but most sites don't bother. Getty Images has a watermark over theirs, until one buys a copy from them.

No, this is a change from the old site.  You never could select text when reading a story.  Currently you can and I hope this gets fixed.

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I'm still not getting emails about the authors I'm following. And I know that some have published because I've seen their stories on the (very short) Front Page.

Moreover, I've received ZERO notifications that any of the 53 authors I'm following have published anything. That seems…unlikely.

Thanks.

My turn for a Me Too!  I hadn't noticed how few emails I was getting, thanks for the heads up!

Do we no longer get emails about the votes and comments we receive? You only get your notifications if you're in the site - the emails worked because it told you to go look. 

I miss the emails which told me that someone had commented or whatever and the one that said my story had been approved. Being in the UK, I used to like checking my emails in the morning to see how many comments (and friend requests?) I had received 'overnight'. I suppose that some of the things that I miss might still re-appear-it would be nice if they did. As I have not yet had a story published since the move I do not know if my copyright thingy applies on here either.

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Did you know that anyone can select the words of anyone's story and cut and paste them into word and then modify them. I think this is a huge bug that should be addressed very soon.

This has been brought up before, I think. Just want to clarify... do you mean you can copy a story to your own computer? I'm assuming you don't mean you can change someone else's story here.

This has actually always been possible from a phone or a tablet. Not being able to cut/paste from a PC might give a false sense of security, but in reality scraper sites and anyone wanting to plagiarise content won't be deterred I'm afraid. 

I noticed this as well... on the old site I could not even copy my own stories if I just opened them up normally. I had to go into edit mode to be able to copy them. Now I can copy any story. I realize a determined person could find a way around it, but at least it deterred some people. For a supposed writing site, writers do seem to have taken the biggest hit in the name of "progress".

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Hey, thanks everyone! So nice to be on the podium, surrounded by such great stories! The sheer variety of all the stories, and the number of entries, made this one quite the trip! The top ten would make a fine book of Flash erotica! VV, told you you'd be on the list!

Congrats to everyone who has the courage to put words to paper and let people see them. 

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My avatar pic has not migrated. I don’t see an option to chose one.  It looks like my friends all have the same ones as previously. 

Hiya, if you try uploading the picture to your media, in a public folder, you should be able to change it from there thanks.

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Something else I noticed: it seems like when editing (and I guess submitting) a story, the series name, if any, has to be cut and pasted into the series box from somewhere else. If you just try to type it in, the space bar doesn't work.

Something else I noticed: it seems like when editing (and I guess submitting) a story, the series name, if any, has to be cut and pasted into the series box from somewhere else. If you just try to type it in, the space bar doesn't work.

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I am NOT seeking anything other than a story site. I DO NOT want a dating site. Please allow me to turn off the seeking feature.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but it used to be necessary to link each story in a series with the one before it. Now they just show up in chronological order, which I guess isn't so bad. Also, the tag line and the author's notes show up enclosed with quotes, which seems entirely unnecessary.

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Fear and Loathing is a great example.

Ever read Daniel Woodrell? His best book is probably Winter's Bone. Really worth checking out. Anyway, here's the first para of Tomato Red. The vast majority is one sentence, which mirrors the action perfectly. I'm a sucker for a long bravura sentence.

"You're no angel, you know how this stuff comes to happen: Friday is payday and it’s been a gray day sogged by a slow ugly rain and you seek company in your gloom, and since you’re fresh to West Table, Mo., and a new hand at the dog-food factory, your choices for company are narrow but you find some finally in a trailer court on East Main, and the coed circle of bums gathered there spot you a beer, then a jug of tequila starts to rotate and the rain keeps comin’ down with a miserable bluesy beat and there’s two girls millin’ about that probably can be had but they seem to like certain things and crank is one of those certain things, and a fistful of party straws tumble from a woven handbag somebody brung, the crank gets cut into lines, and the next time you notice the time it’s three or four Sunday mornin’ and you ain’t slept since Thursday night and one of the girl voices, the one you want most and ain’t had yet though her teeth are the size of shoe-peg corn and look like maybe they’d taste sort of sour, suggests something to do, ’cause with crank you want something, anything, to do, and this cajoling voice suggests we all rob this certain house on this certain street in that rich area where folks can afford to wallow in their vices and likely have a bunch of recreational dope stashed around the mansion and goin’ to waste since an article in The Scroll said the rich people whisked off to France or some such on a noteworthy vacation.

That’s how it happens.

Can’t none of this be new to you."

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I thought your intro was fine. Then again, I know where 205 St. station is. That used to be the train to Yankee Stadium and Stan’s Sports Bar! My confiscated Mets hat might still be there.

I admire stories (and novels especially) where the entire story can be spun out of the first paragraph. I rarely do this because I don’t have the skill, but it’s breathtaking when it happens. Something to do with Chumba’s advice about putting the conflict front and center, something to do with the idea of inevitability - set X event in motion, and Y result is destined to happen, even if you don’t see it coming until after.

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Thank you for the responses. Although sdsioux's idea briefly gave me hope, I understand and fully support the rule, so will reluctantly shelve the story.

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I'm Molly, one of the Admins on StoriesSpace.

It's nice to meet you.

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I set up an account on StoriesSpace (you need to do that, your Lush login won't work) just to see what the new style will look like. It looks good to me. The main site and forum work nicely on laptop and on mobile. I'm slightly amused to see that it looks very similar to the old Lush mobile site that was removed last November - it must be using the same software I think. There are some familiar people there, though most of them seem to use slightly different usernames. The only odd thing I noticed was a story (The Poppy Field) published one day ago but with comments from 3 months ago - maybe it had been revised.

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Lush and stories space are separate sites. You would need to create an account on stories space separately in order to log in there.

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Just an echo to Lake Shore's posts. I'm having the same trouble with logins to Stories Space. Molly has been PM'ed through Lush (I'm totally blocked from Stories Space) and said she's contacted the new techsters with the information. Tension mounts. ;)

My main worry is if the switch is made on Lush before this situation is resolved, LS and I may be blocked from both SS and Lush like, maybe forever. (:

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I jumped on here hoping to find people who may have had some real life erotic experiences similar to mine but sadly, that has not been the case. I'm a bit surprised.

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When I was young, my erotic fantasies were all focused on who I dreamed I was with.

Now that I'm old and fat I find that my fantasies start with me improving myself first, in order to better satisfy the ones I dream of. I become younger, stronger, and better hung!

Anybody else?