One thing that I am not so pleased about relates to followers.

Ideally, I would like to have a notification if I gain a new follower (which I believe that we used to get) but at least I was able to see if the number of followers increased but now the actual number of followers seemed to have disappeared.

I see there is a search button there and I hoped that maybe that would have an option to find the latest follower, but no.

I will look further in case I am missing something but, as it stands, I am not too happy with this aspect of the new profile page.

I very much like the look of the new profile page and everything that goes with it.

Just saying!

I was going to ask where a just-submitted story of mine had disappeared to but I found it at the end of my stories.

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There is a search button at the top of your new stories page, so anyone can search by category/award. The main listing will be by date published though, as it currently is.

Thank you, Jen.

In the recent past, I have found myself listing maybe fifteen of my stories for someone in a message to help them find what they were seeking.

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Not sure of everything, but more customisation about what is displayed where, a searchable story page, the opportunity to display three chosen stories on your main page and a new wall/blog interface

Not necessarily in this update, but is it envisaged that our stories can again be broken down by categories at some point, please?

I want to belatedly add my best wishes to a very, very special lady. Well, belatedly here but they were given elsewhere yesterday 💛🐰🐼

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Didn't you used to be my postman?

No, that was my granddad.

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Yeah, that's it.

Thank you Jen.

Do I get one of those every month? (joking)

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It has appeared. Maybe you missed it. It blends in so beautifully with all the others. 😊

I can see one that says 'Top Author' and I am not sure that that was there before so is that it?

I cannot see any explanation as to what Top Author means in this instance.

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Thank you for checking. There is an issue that's been reported with some things appearing out of date order on the unfiltered menu, so I'm wondering if that's what's happened to you too, as they seem to be in there when you apply more filters.

Yes, some of my things on interactions are out of date order, I went back 4 pages looking for the recent ones but perhaps did not go back far enough-never mind, it was not a major thing.

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Hi Paul, I've had a look and I can see loads for you on each day if you filter on 'story' then on just 'likes'. Same going back every day for the 5 or 6 days I checked.

Can you apply those two filters and tell me what you see? Thanks.

Jen, If I look at my most recent story (The Painter And Decorator - Part 2), I can see that I have 19 likes and 3 favourites BUT if I look at interactions/received/likes I cannot see one like listed for that story.

Not sure where you are looking but we do not appear to be seeing the same thing.

Sorry Jen, I now see where you are looking-I did not realise you could filter in that way but in the past just simply clicking on interactions/received/likes should show those 19 (and others) but it does not now.

Anyway, not a major problem but it is something that I had but do not have at the moment

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I checked my Interactions and my likes in the forum and on my latest story seem fine. Wonder if it is specific to your profile or something.

Don't know if it is specific to me but I have received five or six likes to various stories today (as per notifications) but none of them appear on my interactions received. I have three likes listed from one day ago although I received more,and none from two and three days ago, although I received quite a lot.

One like appears from four days ago but none from five and six days ago, again there was quite a lot.

Most of the recent likes to my stories are not appearing in my interactions received.

I don't know if that is a problem that others are finding but almost every like over the last few days has not appeared.

I had a spell a few days ago when my interactions received was completely blank but I reported that as a bug and it was resolved, it would be nice if all of my likes appeared though please.

Can I ask please if the very nice badge I got for third place in the top authors for September will be appearing on my profile page?

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Ok, just in case you come back asking why it didn't auto save(Lush is forever updating for us to have a better experience)

I think we all wished you'll save writing elsewhere so you don't have to retype story over and over again.

After 286 and a bit stories, I doubt if I will change now. Not through choice anyway. Paul

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Glad you didn't lose any of your story but still, best to use another source as back up, just in case it doesn't save on lush.

That makes sense but I will probably stick to the frequent saving of drafts in the knowledge that, just occasionally, I might have to retype a chunk of the story. The 'auto save' that occurred today is intriguing though.

Thank you for your interest.

I sometimes have trouble saving drafts and, as I type directly to Lush it is sometimes very frustrating. I did, however, just have a completely new experience.

I had started a new story and had typed 270 words so I decided it was about time to save draft. I clicked on 'save draft' and nothing seemed to happen, just the timer thing going round and round for a while.

I decided that it was not going to get saved so believed that I would have to start the story all over again so I came out and went back to Home and clicked on 'Write your own story.'

I was amazed to see that I had a story 'auto saved' so none of the 270 words was lost. I then clicked on 'save draft' and it was saved immediately.

Is auto-saving a new thing? If it is, it is very useful.

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Someone needs to get out more..😊

I can't, I need to boost my likes per story average.

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I saw your name up there, Paul!

I saw yours too but you have a better average likes per story than I do, Kimmi

That is a very interesting feature, thank you.

I am only 15000 likes short of being the top author of all time!

I had better get another story started.

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It was always possible for an author to get a comment removed on appeal and following an inquest.😊

The three dots above right of the comment now allow authors to mark their own homework.

It's not the end of the world. Most social media sites have this facility.

Thanks, Miss.

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I didn't know we could delete anyone's comments except our own. Hmmm. I don't see me ever doing that though. Honestly, I'd rather all negative comments than none at all. Indifference to my scribbles is the worst thing to me. A good bashing from a reader means you made them feel something. I hope the new scoring system will encourage readers to leave more comments.

I agree Kimmi. I did not know that we could delete comments but I never would do so anyway. I do not really see why it should even be possible for an author to delete something that someone else has written, good or bad.

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Now you mention it, it does ring a bell.

Never mind. I suppose I can still provide story comments as a specialist service for masochists. 🙊😊

I always look forward to being the beneficiary of words from you, Jayne. Especially relating to my stories.

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there's a flame score? now who's confused.

There is something that looks like a flame to me at the top of the list of 'scores' at the foot of my 'in production' story.

I like the new 'Interactions' thingy- thank you for that.

Nice to be able to see again what friends have been up to, even what they were up to long before I joined LUSH.

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You mean to tell me didn't copy and paste story from word or another media?

You just began to type out story here? Oh, no.

Yep, all 280 of my stories, including the now completed and submitted one that I had to re-type a chunk of, have been typed direct to LUSH.

It usually works fine except in an instance like earlier today.

I have just been logged out after clicking on 'save draft' and have lost about 700 words that I had just typed!

I often save draft more frequently than that but this is so frustrating.

I seem to be getting logged out more often now when trying to move from one place to another but for it to happen in this situation is horrendous.

Maybe I will start saving draft after every line of typing!

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For some reason all of your email options are set to Never. Please review/update .... Settings > Email.

John-you are/were quite right (as always). That was weird because last time I looked everything was set at instant. I have now reset to instant so we will see where we go from there.

Thank you, Paul

Just an update from my point of view, although I no longer have the message suggesting I update my (correct) email address I have had no email notifications for about a month now.

Looks good to me.