Bear in mind that Lush 2.0 isn't just a redesign of the site, it is a completely new platform. Slapping a new theme on the old Lush would have kept the people happy who wanted to keep things the way they were but wouldn't have addressed any of the major issues that were impacting the day-to-day running.

Gav was retiring from active development and support of the site and he had been the sole programmer of Lush for a decade. With hundreds of thousands of registered members and tens of millions of views each year, it was a priority to ensure that the site was scalable going forward, made use of new web technologies to maximise reliability and performance, was mobile responsive so that the user experience is consistent from one device to the next, etc.

The core functionality of the old site is present and most of those features that were not part of the migration are either already on the development roadmap or in the suggestions pile for review. I have personally made in the range of 15-20 suggestions myself, from better visual separation between forum posts to mailbox UI improvements.

This stuff takes time to code/design. So, it's not that no one is listening to members' opinions, it's that hundreds of people posting their gripes in forum threads, many of which have already been mentioned at least once, just muddies the waters making it difficult to identify what actually needs prioritising.

Give the new development team a chance to get their teeth into things.

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FYI, the upgrade is underway at Storiesspace. I tried going in early this morning and got a really nice splash page about the upgrade. So if you want a hint of the future (and a chance to read some good non-erotic fiction), pop by once it's back up.

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I don't know what it is about the burr or the brogue (forgive me, UK readers, I know how ignorant I sound now), but something about a woman rolling those vowels and blending those pronunciations really does it for me.

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Problem: It happens every stinking time. I get a few minutes to read on a story on my cellphone, then get interrupted. Then my phone goes to sleep. Then I open it back up - and reopen the app/story that I was reading. Most of the time I can do that. Then I either get close to the end of the story I had been signed in and reading, or finish it because I was past that point where I was blocked if I wasn’t signed in AND I’M FORCED to login again. I can’t Score or Comment without being signed in. DAMN!

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But, that’s not the worst of it. I go through the login (again, though the first time during this ‘wake up’ of the phone) AND NOW I CANNOT RESUME READING WHERE I WAS!!! While I may be able to ‘go back’ to the page/place I was when I was forced to leave and sign in again, when I do ‘go back’ to the place I was, I am once again not signed in. Not only that, but I cannot ‘save the location/page’ to come back to. So once I leave that page/place I have no way back

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Solution: Allow ‘go back’ to remember that login just completed so you can return to where you left for Scoring or Comments.
Please!!! Thanks!

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I can't on my tablet. I see the cut and paste. But I am on my tablet and I don't understand the cute and paste feature.

I might if I keep playing at it. Thanks. I didn't see any instructions for them anywhere.

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D-oh! A (nearly) perfect solution! Thanks Ms. Skald. I'll do that now.

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one of my fav. starts to one of mine.

Beside us raced the hurricane. 140 mph of sheer twisted speed, barely able to keep up with the rented Corvette we’d picked up in Toledo, let alone my amphetamine fueled brain. Under the dashboard was enough acid and ecstasy to turn an entire nation of jihad spouting Islamists into black-eyed love monkeys. Wrapped up in tinfoil and enough duct tape to open our own OSH to keep those drug sniffing bastard Nazis commonly known as german shepherds at bay. Not even my sharp nosed companion could spot the scent over the stink of dog sweat and urine that permeated the vinyl seats of the rental car, neither as strong as the stench of desolation that had driven spikes into our brains via our nostrils.

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But recently I noticed a Mod was appointed who’d only had a Lush account for less than a month, and hadn’t got any stories online. In a case like that, it would be great to know a bit more about them.

Frank knew he'd made a mistake the second he saw the little gold swastikas dangling from the girl's nipple piercings.

So there I was with barbeque sauce smeared all over my titties.

The panic began to set in when Charles saw his wife's car pull into the driveway. If she found the babysitter's thong before he did all hell would break loose.

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Weird indeed. You seem to have troubleshot (troubleshooted?) everything I'd have tried.

The only possible reasons I can think of for a network-enabled device on DHCP being inaccessible is because the router is supplying an IP address to either the phone or your PC that are on different subnets/VLANs. Quite why a router would do that out of the box is unclear but maybe it sees the two devices as different classifications and 'conveniently' subnets them for you?

Bottom line as you know: if your VoIP phone and PC are assigned the same subnet it should be pingable and web-accessible on port 80.

Random long shots, none of which I expect to bear fruit:

* Does the phone config software work over port 80 or a custom port? Can the web interface port be changed? I guess if you can't access it, then that's going to be tough!
* Is that port being blocked for whatever reason by your PC's local firewall? (the Windows firewall is a pain in the arse in this regard. Sometimes it even swallows pings for no reason).
* Is the gateway IP on the phone being overridden somehow? Perhaps it's still picking up the old gateway IP from the previous router (or it's been set at some point) and the lease on the new one isn't being released/renewed properly.
* Can you directly connect your PC to the phone in any way using a crossover cable and static IPs? At least that should allow you to get at it. If that works, try using the MAC Binding feature of the router to temporarily deliver the same pair of static IPs to both devices. If it works on static IPs then there's some crazy DHCP issue at play.

I notice that the 'Vac' model of that router has dedicated VoIP functionality so all I can think of is that they're doing some device-level filtering in the 'ac' model to convince you to use their own VoIP provisioning. Sneaky if so.

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This issue has been resolved now. Thanks for all your help

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Thankyou. The same friend did the same to one of his other friend's page.

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*rant*

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The system to stop spammers in the forum doesn't seem to be working.

Jbooa4747 seems to have managed to post a spam link even though he only has one forum post.