Quote by Seeker4 The main Stories page... You can set it to be anyhow.
Cool, that's what I thought.
So depending on someone's settings, there's perhaps some confusion between what people consider the "front page". That could explain why some people claim the IF category shows up and some don't.
As a web developer, I class the "front page" as the bare domain (New stories, Classic stories, latest comp winners, who's logged on, etc). And I class any of the category list pages (/stories, RRs, any particular genre, story lists containing a particular tag, etc) as "landing pages".
Others may disagree with that terminology, so I apologise if I've been talking at cross purposes on occasion.
Quote by Down4anything23 There is something else obviously going on that I am not privileged to know.
You and me both! I'd blame the government meddling in issues above their paygrade. There's talk of passing a law that criminalizes any mention of step-relatives and sex because it causes untold societal harm. Or somesuch bollocks. Last draft I saw, it only mentions images and videos so we may escape, but we might be forced to axe the entire category.
Enjoy it while it lasts...
Anyone who likes that category can bookmark the category landing page instead and not be bothered by any other categories getting in the way. Trust me, it's of little consequence to readers whether it shows on the domain front page or not. That's not how the internet works any more: every page is the front page.
Quote by Alfresco Which feels like a bug but may not be.
It's not, sadly. IF stories are not shown on the front page. I don't know the reason but it may be legislative or something. 🤷♂️
But almost nobody camps on the front page anyway. It's a transient location just to show the world that content is changing rapidly. Any readers who are into a category will watch that specific category landing page for stories of that type.
For a project external to Lush I'm developing a taxonomy system based on synonyms that work a bit like your "see" example. Anyone who searches/filters a tem like 'oral' will first get results with Oral tagged directly, then results from content that contains the synonyms, as weaker matches. That way, anyone can use any of the related terms and get relevant results.
As you say, it requires someone to be on it and group related terms from time to time. The beauty is that the admin can deliberately include common misspellings like masterbation / masturbation as synonyms, so even searches with typos can find content.
I'd love to implement something similar here for tags.
Ape speaks sense. The mishmash of "categories* is a byproduct of over a decade of unstructured tinkering by various parties. And it's annoying.
Having said that, taxonomy and tagging is hard. One person's oral or blowjob is another's cocksucking and someone else's fellatio, so picking one for a category name doesn't always help everyone find what they want.
Further, as mentioned, changing them for the sake of it isn't exactly a priority. The Novels category is only under scrutiny here because it's even more of an outlier than the rest, and isn't travelled much.
That is correct. If you please add a moderator note saying you've only changed the cover, anyone skimming the queue will see that, which should speed things up.
There's no requested novel tag. Tags are entirely up to you. And if you solely adjust tags in a published work, there should be no round trip to the moderation queue. Only if you alter the cover image, tagline, title or body text.
There's no decision been made on this category. Perhaps in future we'll revisit this but for now, please continue as normal.
Quote by Mandapanda2025 Once it's submitted, it goes to In Queue or even Submitted until it's actually picked up for review.
It differentiates anyway. It goes Under Review and you can recall it. When it's assigned to a moderator you can no longer recall it. If they unlock it, you can. So it flips between states already. As AC says, the wording is immaterial.
The fact it's sometimes assigned to a moderator and gets passed around or held back while we discuss aspects of the story among ourselves doesn't change the fact it's under review. And while we're deliberating, we wouldn't want you to make changes (unless you expressly ask for it to be unlocked and returned) as that would invalidate our discussions. Moving goal posts, and all that.
On a general note, one way to avoid feeling the need to recall it after submission is to make sure everything is shipshape prior to sending it in. Who would send in a half-finished piece of homework or a partial manuscript for printing with the intention "oh I'll fix the typos or structure or add the artwork after someone has read it all*?
Surely presenting the best possible version from the outset is the most efficient route?
Real life got in the way a bit, and we had two attempts at penning the finale to Love At First Bite, but Kimmi and I are done with the series and happy with it.
Part 3 is in the queue and will be out whenever a mod can spare some time. Don't believe the word counter: it's less than 5k words.
In the meantime, if you haven't caught up with the vampire action so far, now's a perfect time to make amends. Sexy fangs await...
People who open multiple accounts and/or push AI-generated or AI-assisted dreck to the queue, and then have the cheek to complain about wait times, are doing the site and all the authors who care about the craft of storytelling a disservice.
We have made our stance on AI public. Just because we're currently publishing such work - deliberately slowly - to give real authors and those who play by the rules a chance at getting published, doesn't mean that will always be the case.
Plans are afoot to tackle this scourge, this blight on the quality of stories published here, but our resources are limited and it may take time.
If your stories are not AI-generated/assisted and your story has been inadvertently caught up in our sweeps that allow us to move past the crap and get to the real stories buried below, please accept our apologies. We currently have a very limited toolset at our disposal and manually sifting the deluge and cross-checking accounts and content is time consuming and error prone.
Please, please, again, do not present AI content and pretend you wrote it. It's not big, nor is it clever, to steal work from other authors and take credit for the mediocre, repetitive nonsense it spits out. I'm surprised the brave moderating team haven't all had a collective nervous breakdown having to wade through the same tired hipster phrasing, the same clichéd tropes, story after story after story, a hundred times a week each.
It's demoralising and unjust when we're giving our time - for free - to use our collective years of expertise to help authors find their storytelling voice, only to be presented with 30-40 stories per day, all with a near-identical voice and cadence generated by a soulless algorithm.
We urge you to have a go at writing something yourself. Something fresh. Something exciting that you're proud of and allows you to build a steady readership. If you genuinely try, we are more than happy to help you build on those foundations by providing tips, resources, and guidance to help you develop.
We're here to help and are being hamstrung from doing so by inconsiderate site members.
Any idea when this might get resolved. It’s a PIA having to log back in when simply clicking on “reply” to a reply.
No ETA, sadly. I flagged it to the dev team again this morning.
Weirdly, some people seem able to post replies just fine. You seem to be one of the unlucky ones. Me, well, I'm halfway between the two. When I tap in the Reply box, the login window tries to pop up but never completes. It just spins forever. If I then go Back a page, I'm still logged in, but ultimately have no way to leave a comment reply.
