I was, for a while, getting notifications of new publications by authors that I follow.
Alas, incomplete though that was, even that has now vanished again completely.
As an author, I'm not sure if I want to publish a story if people who follow me don't know it's there.
"If smut falls from a tree in the forest, and there's no notification that it's a windfall…does it make a splatter?"
Or something…
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Seems there is quite a lot of stumbling happening in transition. My needs are so simple the transition has happened almost without notice. The only complaint I would bring up is that there seems to be a “rougher” group of people.
Quote by Icarus4I don't know what is going on behind the scenes, but they may have been caught with inadequate time to prepare - something about the servers they were renting becoming unavailable. I don't even remember where I read that.Seems there is quite a lot of stumbling happening in transition. My needs are so simple the transition has happened almost without notice. The only complaint I would bring up is that there seems to be a “rougher” group of people.
A rougher group of people - do you mean the moderators or the readers?
Quote by JamesLlewellynI had luck with using firefox to fix the italic and bold issue. But I did have to fix the vertical line spacing still. I also us MS Word and then copy and paste into lush.I've submitted two stories under Lush 2.0, and am working on a third. I'm having two, massive problems with the process.
I write my stories in MS Word until they are in semi-final form, then copy and paste them into Lush's story entry thing. The problems are:
The vertical line spacing does not work. If I simply cut and paste, I get an irregular mishmash of single and double spacing. I have had to go back into the Lush story editor, and manually delete and re-enter EVERY SINGLE CARRIAGE RETURN. This is particularly true with dialogue, which the most recent two stories have in abundance.
The other problem is that neither bolding nor italicizing transfer from Word to Lush, which, again, means I have to go back and re-do every single instance of such.
These are both major pains in the ass, and I would very much appreciate it if they were fixed.
Thanks
But I'll hold off posting anything new myself until this gets fully resolved. I've already talked to several other author friends of mine that have all but abandon lush and went to other sites in frustration. I'm going to give them the benefit of doubt that they're working hard to resolve the issues.
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Oh, I just saw the new series management page. It has a little icon next to the series name. Should it be the newest at the top or the oldest? I guess that is my call. Now, if they could only deal with that white space under the story problem.
First story in the series at the top, flowing to the final story at the bottom. When you link up a new one, it will always move to the bottom. You can then move it as necessary from series management to put it in the proper chronological place. A nice improvement over what we had.
Now, if only someone could tell me why some existing stories/chapters go straight through without moderation, while others go into the queue, when I'm doing the exact same thing to all of them — adding the series designation, and nothing else.
As a matter of fact, I've actually edited the moderator section on a few of them that went through without moderation, while I didn't change that section ( it still had an old moderator note saying I'm linking them as chapters that serves the purpose ) on some, and those hit the queue.
Baffling.
Not that this is new. It happened when I was linking chapters under the old system as well.
I'm trying to wait at least a few hours after one goes into the queue and the minor change gets approved. I have to click the new ( author ) series button once I submit each change to see if it went through or got stuck in the queue, because there's no difference in the prompt. Thankfully, there's a "in review" notation on those that hit the queue within the series management, so I don't have to dig back through my story list to check.
They're still doing some baffling things, although maybe I'm getting used to it. I guess the new method of handling series is okay. I can't imagine what they are doing with moderating stories; I have't had enough experience yet with it. They did do something weird this morning. I had a rejected story I had left there from before the changeover. I'm not sure why I still had it - maybe as a reminder of where I've been. Then they moved it to the top of the published section - why? - so I just deleted it.
By the way, stories in moderation used to be at the end of the list; now they are at the top.
