Only if I’d be permitted to write a fictionalized account of my experiences with (what I surmise is) their PHP+MySQL stack. It would be a golden opportunity to finally tick the BDSM category off of my bucket list.
Careful what you wish for, someone may kidnap you and lock you in a room with an old green screen CT, forcing you to write COBOL.
That would be more like EH, albeit with little to no E.
It’s when the punch card reader is wheeled into the room that things get really erotic.
Yes, that's the activity I saw. It bolts on to the "archive list", but the opening page remains blank. There's no "active feed" yet.
I have an active feed now. But it’s very slow, both to load and for new items to appear. And it sometimes just gives an error.
My feed is still not active, but the archive list shows my latest story, published today. It's also got an Editor's Choice badge, so that's still a glitch, unless Laurel is handing them out for being patient. Melissa's latest story has got one too, but that's probably more deserving.
Not to mention that some vacuum tubes appear very fittingly shaped...
She sat at the beautifully carved abacus, its beads glistening with oil as they flicked smoothly, silently from side to side.
I've gotten the impression that the archiving system somehow broke whatever they use to automatically post stories, which is why they've been going up piecemeal all day for the last two days. I'm guessing that means she (or someone) is having to do it manually, and perhaps the editor's choice thing is either necessary for this 'auxiliary' system, or it simply invites an additional opportunity for errors like the phantom award. It's kind of entertaining, really.
I'm not sure the term 'stagnant' is the most appropriate term for the pool of millions of stories on this site. While some are best forgotten (including a few of my own) there are enough wonderful stories to keep readers busy for years, some of which are waiting to be rediscovered. At present, I have 77 stories published over 4 years and receive around 500 new reads a day, most of them from stories written years ago. I am not widely read, so it stands to reason there is plenty of mileage in this site without any new stories being published, and it follows that authors will not be the site's priority, particularly since they have become accustomed to a model by which loyal authors contribute for free to the site with very little in the way of recognition and there is nothing to suggest this is going to change. This is not a criticism but a simple statement of what I believe to be a strength and a weakness of Literotica. The problems with the activity display are insignificant in the scheme of things, and even delays with publishing are soluble, but False AI rejection is a different kettle of fish and could cause authors to look elsewhere to publish. I myself had a story rejected for this reason and was asked to resubmit without any explanation of where i was supposed to have cheated. I resubmitted with no changes and asserted that AI had not been used, and was fortunate enough that after a two-month process and thanks to Laurel, the story was published. My question is this: I was an established author with 75 published stories when this happened to me. What will a new author with a work of 40,000 words and months of work do when this happens to them? These authors are the future of literotica and I wish there were some way that I could be sure that this concern was being addressed. I fit isnt?
And they come pre-warmed for you. Giving you some VERY hot me-time.
That's wishful thinking. Having been here over a decade, I doubt it. They were rare and infrequent badges, until now.
I don't think that the Monthly Contests are going to spontaneously start working either.
I believe it has happened in recent memory. Maybe lightning even struck twice.
You are just being too negative EB. It's just been a long time bug that Manu just fixed. Laurel loves us all!
Says the only writer to get one in my whole time here. And she got two.
Modesty forbade me mentioning the recipient. Next for a W.Says the only writer to get one in my whole time here. And she got two.
No I sense no jealousy over here at all.
(They were both well deserved FS)
It’s best to go into comps knowing they are a shit show. It makes it easier to cope when the shit starts falling from the sky. I’m thinking of marketing Literotica-themed shit umbrellas
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You've been awarded Editor's choice... in the Archive section. Congratulations!
One mustn't approach competitions from the POV of your result, but the warm feeling of joining with others in a creative picnic.It’s best to go into comps knowing they are a shit show. It makes it easier to cope when the shit starts falling from the sky. I’m thinking of marketing Literotica-themed shit umbrellas
Maybe. I shall accept it as kudos, whilst it remains. One never knows the criteria behind the E - the story is a musing about my own writing, so maybe it tickled a fancy.
I'm sensing.... Innuendo? Is this what IT people do all day?
