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For reading through and verifying close to 100 stories in our queue in November, the award for Mod of the Month for November goes to Robertl.

Thank you for all your time and dedication Robert .

I'll be in touch about your $100 prize. That should buy a couple of Xmas presents!
For processing a whopping 163 stories in October, our curviest mod, CurvyGalore again takes out the Moderator of the Month award.

Thank you for all your time and commitment to the cause Curvy!
Thank you!

I've been very close to the music, art and literature scene my entire life. My mother is still an eccentric sculputure and artist in her late 70's. I support her at every turn.

This was one of my favourites:

There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis.

But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you.

Terrible death. I'm remembering and sad.
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I would love to see a tumblr like page page for lush users here on lush. One that members that have tumblr accounts can import their pics. before they close it down


Excellent idea.

And if Gav could scrape said pages / content automatically and post them up here on a new profile wall feature, all the better.

I'm not sure it will be possible given our limited resources, but I've put it to the coding power to be.
I totally get what you are saying MJ.

The thing is though, the decision has been made and I am 99.99% sure it will be final.

Apple decided to turf the Tumblr APP out of their store, and with it, a huge chunk of their revenue.

A large percentage of their advertisers are now aware that there are sections of that site, which are harbouring not only NSFW, but illegal content. That's a huge no-no for them (as it should be).

So Tumblr basically have no choice in the matter, or they will likely go under.
There's been some interesting suggestions and posts on this.

One thing we could quite easily incorporate, would be an image wall (in addition to the current image gallery profile section). I agree, the forums aren't the right place for hundreds of thousands of images to be posted.

Would there be much of a demand for it here though I wonder? The fact we've had close to 400,000 images posted, on what is fundamentally a story site, shows that there is.

I'll let this percolate for a while and see what Gav says concerning the technicalities.
Wow, that's quite some move from Tumblr. I know there's been a lot of scandal involving their site of late.

It looks like our page there will be given the chop / filtered: https://lushstories.tumblr.com/

I wonder if the likes of Twitter will take a similar stance soon enough? already disallow anything NSFW.

We will naturally get some extra traffic I'm sure. I don't know what we can do directly to encourage people to join here from there though?

Our traffic / membership is primarily related to our story content, and people wanting to join an adult social network to meet other people online and off.

Tumblr is more an image sharing platform, which is a somewhat different proposition. We have that capability already with the forums and people's profiles, so there is some crossover.

Thanks for posting TCredo!
All current entries have been tweeted about.

I'll continue to promote the stories as the competition goes on.
Congratulations MJ. Thoroughly deserved too.

Manners maketh the man!
Best bar in town.

I've been all over the world, and I love the eclectic mix we have in here.

Name a place, and I bet either I've been there or someone in Rumps can tell you a story about it.

Fire away!
Great troubleshooting and solution finding you guys!

(Love the mock-up Liz! )
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Only thing I would like to see is that any accounts that have not been active for 5 years or more, delete them.


Not a bad idea. I can see the reasons for doing so.

However someone contacted me recently, who's not been around for a long long time (a member for 10 years), and they were delighted we kept their profile going. If we'd deleted them, we would have lost all her stories, she'd have lost her friend list etc..
Best to contact Gav directly as it sounds like a site issue (unless you've manually linked them incorrectly?).
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I'm not likely to write any flash outside of contests requiring it, or by pure chance that something ends up less than the limit and doesn't fit in any other category, but I'm for leaving it. I've seen 1000 as the upper limit on quite a few flash story categories/etc. and it seems pretty standard.


You're correct.

I did a lot of research into the subject before creating the category with the chosen limit of 1000 words.

It's a huge challenge to write within the limits, and I don't want that to be diminished by raising it.
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Return "featured member" to the home page.


It's being worked on in a new format for the RHS of the front page.

But our programmer is swamped right now, so it's a way off I'm afraid.
I think your last line sums it up perfectly there.

There's no need for a big production budget, but come on, (most I imagine) people must be fed up with "that goes in there, this goes in here" type porn. Unless the actors are really attractive, it ends up rather anatomical and formulaic.

Who doesn't love a good build up to an explosive sex scene?

It's the same in stories. Why should it be any different in porn (because I only have 5 minutes for a quick diddle - hmm, fair point)?
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A humble suggestion, which I hope won't be repetitive, but how about raising the word count on flash fiction stories to 1500?


Easily done.

Would you like to put it to the vote?

It's a big challenge writing to 1000 words, hence the reason we did it.

But if it means more submissions and people like the idea, I'm all for the change.
Some good advice above.

You used to be able to "price match", but I am guessing they've probably removed that option now, as it means they make nothing (someone will be able to confirm, I'm sure) when someone sets it at $0.00 match elsewhere.

I'd use all free sites like this, to create a following (make sure you are all over places like Twitter, like a rash), and then publish exclusives on Amazon which hopefully your following, will want to snap up.

It's a hugely competitive environment on Amazon (50 Shades and nanny state policing trashed it). We more or less stopped publishing there 3 or 4 years ago, as it simply wasn't worth the effort.

But with a huge amount of self-promotion, and an unerring ability to spin a yarn, there's still plenty of money to be made there from what my sources tell me.

Good luck, and welcome to the site!
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That image is evoking far too long of a story in my head, no matter how I try to twist, turn, or compact it.

There's too much for me to unpack within the word limit on this one, I'm afraid.


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I would like to see the layout of my profile page to be different. It looks ugly. Actually the whole web site, stories and forum section is ugly in comparison to the "other" story site. I can't believe there are people who actually pay money to use this.




Thanks Jade, I love a good giggle first up on a Monday morning. Welcome to the site!

I see you've found a few ways to customise your profile already. It looks good. Any pointers on how we could improve, we'd love to hear them. That's what the feedback section is for.

Thank you for the support, but please keep things courteous folks, and try not to knock other sites. There's plenty of room on the web for all sorts and standards of websites, good and bad. Best of luck to them I say.

Anyone remember who was it who said Facebook looked like it had been designed by drunk smurfs? lol. They seem to have done rather well for themselves.
Well spotted! We added them recently. It has been on our to-do list for a while.

Ashleigh and Liz did a fantastic job:









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I wish others did.


Perhaps they don't recognise it, or are confused by your offerings?

Either way, you're one of the most entertaining characters I've ever come across.
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There are a couple who make me envious. But I would be less than honest if I didn't include myself. Its been a long road for me, but I can appreciate those who have collaborated. I owe them much.




I love your wit Al