It would be good if Gav is able to fix this issue, but seeing as it's an off the shelf package adapted to suit, I am not sure what he's able to do. I'll ask!
As long as you come in at 5,000 words or under in MS Word (we usually allow a little leeway to compensate for differing word processing software), then you're good to go.
These are great.
Keep them coming!
My "work" is an odd mixture, which keeps me interested and pays the bills.
I occasionally do things with spreadsheets for large corporates. I have been cutting back on this a lot the last few years though as it's soul destroying.
I buy and sell bits of companies when squiggles on their charts look nice.
I help facilitate making people feel happy, horny and in fun company on the interwebs.
Poorly explain what you do for a living!
No joke!
A deliberate start on April Fools' Day. The timing was perfect for something a little fun and different.
Bump for awareness of the new feature.
If they've deleted their account, it can take up to 24 hours for the site cache to catch up.
So remnants of their profile, stories etc., take a little while to be purged from the system.
With the site serving 2.5 million pageviews each month, it's not possible for the site to be absolutely "live" across the whole setup. Some areas are cached for better performance.
How is everyone finding the new feature?
We'd expected a lot more feedback considering the number of requests we had.
Perhaps word literally hasn't got out yet?
It would be nice if down the track it could be built in to our chat rooms, but for now, this is as much as time and the very limited budget allow.
We have been hit with hundreds of thousands of spam messages over the years, and many of the spammers use clever tactics to circumvent the measures we increasingly put in place (IP checks, blocked throwaway email addresses etc..).
This not only takes up a lot of our site resources and contributes to downtime, but also requires someone to spend hours and hours on a daily basis going through deleting all the accounts when this can't be done automatically.
So we've decided enough is enough.
It's getting worse and worse, costly, and ruining the quality of our service for everyone.
In the coming weeks, restrictions will be put on messaging, across the board.
Members must be upgraded to at least a Bronze in order to use the messaging services.
This will stop the site spam in its tracks.
Reviews are being made of the chat rooms, forums, and other site features which spammers attack, to restrict access.
The primary reason the site exists is for people to enjoy reading and writing stories. That will not change.
Everything else we offer free, which let's be honest, equates to the features many major dating sites (who charge $10+ per month) would be proud to have, are under review.
I will post separately once we've decided which measures we'll be putting into place.
It's probably time for the Bronze membership itself to be shelved too, but that's a post for another day.
This is still in beta trials of course so please give us as much feedback as possible and we will try and iron out any issues here or with the developers, that may arise dependent on device / browser etc..
I've asked Gav what's up.
I'm transfixed by the hairy guy.
Glad to see you've enlarged your vocabulary, Rach!
