I've noticed that sometimes there's a delay between uploading and the image appearing in the designated folder. Sometimes it's almost immediate, sometimes it can take a minute or so.

I'm not sure why. Might be file size. Might be server load. Or maybe incoming shots are batched for moving to the media server, or are run through some automated checker that takes a little time to process.

If you have a suitable driver (or it's built into your browser or operating system) then you can visit a story page and print it to PDF.

I tried it on a MacBook the other day (cmd-p -> save to PDF) and it worked fine, albeit the spacing on headings was rather squished. That's easily solvable with a stylesheet tweak and is on my list of things to report once all the big stuff is out of the way.

Haven't tried it from a mobile device yet.

Phew, thought it was just me. I was trying to add some stuff to a folder yesterday and... crickets.

If it's not been raised already I'll do it now. Thanks for the report.

EDIT: it's been raised.

Quote by VioletVixen

I like that story spacing has gotten fixed as well as the copy and paste blocker on desktop. Although it isn’t foolproof, it does mean people have to put more effort into skimming stories.

I also love that the paragraph spacing has been sorted. Soooooo much nicer to read. Also love how the menu has changed: all that sea of "My this" and "My that" has been replaced with just "this" and "that". Simple change but so much faster to find stuff when skimming content.

And, when logging in, the cursor now auto-focuses in the login box. Again, super simple but a boon for people like me who prefer not to store passwords.

Quote by verity100

Have we changed the way we add them?

I haven't tried in anger yet, but I *think* you type one, hit enter, type the next, hit enter, and so on. Each one should then appear below the entry box and you can delete them from there if you like.

It might be nice if it could accept a comma separated list so when you press enter it creates them all in one go, but that has the potential to mean people may just type them and tab out of the box without pressing enter. That might mean the changes wouldn't be committed, so they may be lost when you save/submit.

Try using Enter after each for now and see if that works.

Quote by JamesLlewellyn

Does that mean Lush 1.0 had it wrong for all those years? And that books should only have author's names at the end and not on the title page?

It's not about right and wrong. That's how it is now; I was speculating why the designers might have chosen this path.

Reading online is a different experience to a printed book. Shorter paragraphs are easier to read than blocks of text, for example. Books are a fixed width, browsers have fluid line widths. Web pages have information "above the fold" like a newspaper, but that fold is variable height depending on device dimensions.

When you land on a web page, the content needs to be pretty near the top. Less scrolling to get past the fluff. More immediate for search engines to get their grubby mitts on too.

Yes it's just "one more line" in this case. But then someone suggests the category should be listed. Then the ability to download it for offline viewing. Then tags. Both top and bottom, which adds to the page weight/byte count that slows page rendering and overloads the server when multiplied by thousands of users. Plus there's the image (which usually contains the author name) reducing the need to display it at the top for visually sighted people. The information can be embedded in the document to assist there.

I'm with you. I think the author name should be at the top, perhaps between title and tagline. It'd be a definite win for screen readers. I'm just saying there are more pressing issues right now and that it's been noted and may be changed in a future version drop.

Quote by JamesLlewellyn

When you select and go to a story, the author does not appear anywhere except at the very end.

This has been noted. I presume the rationale is that it shouldn't matter who wrote it until you've enjoyed it.

When you open the story, you get to find out how many others have liked it and commented etc. Then you get stuck into the story. You don't even see category/tags at the top because the implication is that you've seen those (and the author) before clicking through. The only time that isn't the case would be if you landed on the story from a search engine. But again, the focus is story first.

When you reach the end, if you loved it, you have the opportunity to see the author's profile to find any other stories by them, and also any story tags so you can find similar stories to enjoy. So from that standpoint, the flow works well. It's just... different to how it was. Less stuff to wade through at the top, and once you're reeling from how amazing the story was, you can fuel further reading.

This might change but I suspect it's low priority right now.

Quote by adele
That's really a crappy reason to allow stories to be copied.

The site doesn't "allow" it. It doesn't disallow it. It never did. Lush v1 just put a piece of digital tracing paper over the screen so when you clicked, all the casual surfer got was paper, not the text beneath.

As Noll said, the content is already downloaded. It's on your device. Everyone who has viewed your story has "copied" it in some form! That's the way the internet works.

Put it this way: if Lush 2 resurrects the tracing paper, and someone presses ctrl-s so they can download and read your story offline, how should we smite them? Do you want some kind of legal comeback? "But Lush has a right click blocker in place to stop people copying my writing, your honour. Make them stop."

There are bigger fights to be had, imo.

Quote by Brookell
You never could select text when reading a story.  Currently you can and I hope this gets fixed.

There's nothing to fix, per se. The only people it will deter from copying are casual surfers. And they're unlikely to do so anyway. 

Anyone who wants to plagiarise your story that's "protected" by a right click blocker will do so either by using a) the browser inspector to copy stuff, b) a touch device, c) a plugin to counter the blocker, d) a script to download the page.

It's a fruitless endeavour. And slows the pages down fractionally. Selecting text is quite handy, imo, because people can quote their fave lines from your story directly in their comments!

Oh a very well deserved top three. All fabulous stories, as were so many others in this incredibly well turned out competition.

Congratulations not only to the podium finishers and my fellow top tenners, but also anyone who fielded an entry. Such a tough contest, as ever: I read practically all of them and there were some corkers.

Hats off to the judging panel and of course the good ship Lush in which we sail. Looking forward to the next comp!

I love how it's far more stable and speedier than before. And more seamlessly responsive between devices. Also echo the sentiments above about the forum overall, latest posts feature, and timezone improvements. I'm spending way more time here as a result. Probably too much, oops.

Another simple thing in the forum is the bolding of some of the subject lines on the Recent Posts list. I'm still unsure if this is due to me watching a thread or participating in a thread (or both), but it's really helpful either way when scanning the list to draw attention to threads I'm interested in, among all the other chatter.

The in-house notifications are extremely handy too, and the filterability of the My Comments area is fab (be even better when I figure out what a LocationLevelTwoWallPost is!).

The stories look waaay better, cover images notwithstanding. Just looks far leaner and more modern with decent line and paragraph spacing, and that concise stats block at the top.

Although this won't be of much relevance to non-mods, the moderation process is also more streamlined and is set to improve again as things iterate. It's one of those areas that wasn't just copied over verbatim but studied and improved.

I'm also impressed how responsive the dev team are to jump on issues and squish them. Fantastic stuff so far. Thank you!

Yeah there's quite a bit of one-off around the place. -1 sometimes when you delete all media from an album, 0s instead of 1s (or one value out) for message counts, one day out for birthdays as you say. Little idiosyncrasies that'll be added to the list no doubt. Thanks for the report.

Quote by PJH

I am assuming that adding a picture or whatever is NOT essential to getting a story published.

Correct.

Quote by kiteares
By a little late, I mean they should be at the top to help people decide if the story is something they will like or more importantly, something they want to avoid.

If you land on a story page from a search engine or a direct link from a notification PM (when they start working), I agree. If you enter from the front page or a category landing page, the tags are there before you click through so you don't necessarily need to see them again.

Adding them at the top does push the start of the story further down the page, which is a drag. My preference would be a single 'tags' link at the top (one of these: https://cdn.onlinewebfonts.com/svg/img_196274.svg icons), alongside the other stats. When you click/tap, it reveals the list of tags in a row/grid beneath the stats. Tap again to hide them. Thus:

2) Readers who have already seen the tags because they came from a landing page don't unnecessarily see them again.

3) Readers who don't care (or like surprises!) aren't inconvenienced by seeing them and having to skip over them.

4) The tags still appear in full at the bottom, allowing you to click through to find other stories on similar themes after you've enjoyed the current story.

If this proposal is considered, I'd be tempted to let the state of the tag toggle at the top of the story pages 'stick' so once you toggle it open, it stays open on all stories until you tap the tag icon to close it.

Quote by etairay
Oh ..is there a way we can stop seeing people's signatures in forum.

1) Visit forum root page: https://www.lushstories.com/forum

2) Tap More>Forum Settings

3) At the bottom of the panel under your sig is "Hide signatures."

4) Save.

Quote by kistinspencil

There is no "Show Filters" on my page -- that's the problem. Many of us are seeing very different pages (no quote/edit/etc) than the rest of you. I can't even get to my profile without finding my avatar somewhere and clicking that.

I understand your frustration. I had a similar experience, as noted above in response to caramel . Some pages worked fine and showed me the header bar with my avatar in it, others showed me "Complete your profile" or simply failed to load.

It wasn't until I actually changed my Location in the profile, moved through each of the 4 steps in the profile setup, and got to the end that the site started functioning more predictably.

Not saying this is what's happening in all cases, and the forum glitches may well be to do with permissions or something above my pay grade, but if some pages work and others look like they've kicked you out, please double and triple check that you have gone through the profile migration steps fully.

I found a tiny little message - in Lush red so I never noticed it - that said "Location not recognised". The air was blue until that "aha" moment because I wanted Lush back dammit!

Quote by Mysteria27

How do we see comments on our stories.  I hope you bring back a timeline

Try clicking your avatar in the menu and then My Comments. It lists activity on your profile page and stories. And, in fact, is better than before because you can filter them by Profile (wall/page) or Story (comments).

Just in case the memo didn't get out to everyone before the move:

Most of the site has been migrated to the new structure.

Messages will come along in a day or so.

Badges and other bits and pieces will also come across soon.

So if any of your _content_ is missing, please hang fire for a few days and check again.

With so much data to move, doing it in one shot would mean Lush would have been down for faaaaar longer than the few hours it was today.

To reiterate what Jen said at the top of this thread, if you spot mission critical stuff or technical glitches, please flag them here. If it's something that isn't quite the same as before or a feature request, please note it down on a bit of paper - it might be a bug - and if it's not resolved after all the big things have been ironed out, raise it as an issue then.

There are a lot of changes and some things may simply be in a different place or be accessed in a different manner than you're used to. Poke around and see what you find.

One other thing: it's advisable to go to your profile settings and review each page. But don't just nod and say, "yep all good". On each page, click Update.

Some settings take on defaults that make it look like they're applied when they're actually not set. The first time I clicked Update on my Privacy tab, for instance, an unchecked box became checked. I unchecked it again and hit Update once more and the value stuck.

So before you report settings not working, please verify that the settings you see are actually what's applied. Save your changes on all settings pages to be sure, and verify after you've saved them that the values match.

Hope that helps.

Quote by seeker4

I want to be able to switch off the dating site BS on my profile. I am not "Seeking" anything

Somewhat ironic given your username. 😎

Yeah, I haven't figured how to turn that off either yet. I managed to turn off the "people" bit by adding a type of person, hitting save, then removing all the selections and hitting save again. But I can't get rid of distance, age range or smoking.

I tried setting the sliders to least or most or widest or both ends the same value (hehe and on mobile it looks like 55-year-olds are out of luck... It jumps from 54 to 56 lol). No dice. The Seeking section won't go away.

Presumably we just need a way to null those fields from the UI and they'll disappear from the profile. One for the snagging list down the road.

"This seeking bit should be completed in the next week or so, other bits are already in profile settings, Admin"

Minor glitch with IM not working on some pages (e.g. Profiles). Clicking the two-speech-bubble icon just highlights the button but no chat box appears. Works fine on most pages.

"This is a bit flakey, we now have it on the dev list, Admin"