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[SmilingLez]

PM here means Private Message, not Product Manager.

Duh, I was referring to the screenshot where Laurel said she had a program manager. Sorry if you don't understand tech speak

 

[Stanfield2025]

On a serious note this bug has me very concerned.

To anyone reading this, make sure you have backups of your final versions of your work

I remember reading in AH somewhere that Google Drive will nuke your account or something if you write smut. I looked into it and what I read was that if you share the smut document with someone, then that would break the guidelines.

 

[SmilingLez]

I remember reading in AH somewhere that Google Drive will nuke your account or something if you write smut. I looked into it and what I read was that if you share the smut document with someone, then that would break the guidelines.

FYI

https://transparency.google/intl/en_us/our-policies/product-terms/google-drive/

 

[Stanfield2025]

FYI

https://transparency.google/intl/en_us/our-policies/product-terms/google-drive/

Yeah, I found this:

Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material.

I assume distribute here means sharing it rather than just writing it. Do let me know if I'm missing something, though.

 

[Britva415]

With Dev and QA servers, I don't understand why

There aren't dev and qa servers

 

[TheWritingGroup]

There aren't dev and qa servers

You think Laurel was lying?

 

[Britva415]

Yeah, I found this:

I assume distribute here means sharing it rather than just writing it. Do let me know if I'm missing something, though.

Hosting your work in Google Drive might very well be interpreted by Google as a possession with intent to distribute.

 

[Stanfield2025]

Hosting your work in Google Drive might very well be interpreted by Google as a possession with intent to distribute.

Well, shit. Are there any instances of people being fucked over just for having smut on Google Drive without sharing it?

 

[Actingup]

Hosting your work in Google Drive might very well be interpreted by Google as a possession with intent to distribute.

I'm not really sure why another thread is being regurgitated here, but cutting to the chase... backing up your work is just good practice wherever you are and whatever you're writing. If it's smut, you have a bunch of other reasons to be careful.

EDIT - and honestly considering what's published in the mainstream these days, we'd probably all be better off just saying we write fiction.

 

[SmilingLez]

Yeah, I found this:

I assume distribute here means sharing it rather than just writing it. Do let me know if I'm missing something, though.

Again my opinion and YMMV, the rules are very loose and allows Google to delete basically whatever they want. Storage devices are dirt cheap. I usually check every 6 months to make sure nothing has changed - no disintegration of data. There are plenty of free apps where you can compare two documents to make sure that they are identical.

 

[TheLobster]

Duh, I was referring to the screenshot where Laurel said she had a program manager. Sorry if you don't understand tech speak

This gotta be the first time on this forum that I've been accused of using too little tech-speak

 

[Actingup]

Duh, I was referring to the screenshot where Laurel said she had a program manager. Sorry if you don't understand tech speak

She didn't. She said she had a production manager. Somebody well versed in ICT can explain the differences to us in great detail, I'm sure, but usually I would describe a production manager as a highly operational role, whereas a program manager is seeking to align a defined series of functions to th corporate strategy with the resources available.

 

[SmilingLez]

She didn't. She said she had a production manager. Somebody well versed in ICT can explain the differences to us in great detail, I'm sure, but usually I would describe a production manager as a highly operational role, whereas a program manager is seeking to align a defined series of functions to th corporate strategy with the resources available.

Thank you for letting me know. That screenshot was so tiny on my phone.



A production manager is an operations role. It’s about day to day workflow, scheduling, making sure tasks get done, and keeping the machine running. It’s not strategic.



It’s not a tech role. It doesn’t explain the bugs. It doesn’t explain the broken pipeline. It doesn’t explain the lack of QA. It doesn’t explain the backend rot. It’s just a title that sounds official but doesn’t mean anything about the system’s health.



It’s not technical. It’s not architectural. It’s basically someone who keeps the aging conveyor belt moving.



Again my opinion and YMMV

 

[Britva415]

You think Laurel was lying?

idk what you're referring to. Link?

Anyway, it seems we have people saying both things: there both are and aren't any non-production instances for testing purposes.

I was reacting based on those who have said Laurel has said that there aren't. I myself haven't seen those who say Laurel or Manu says there are.

Happy to be shown wrong, but we'll still have different people saying different things, and it will still be none of it firsthand from Laurel.

 

[Britva415]

I'm not really sure why another thread is being regurgitated here

Not sure why I'm being called out for it, I'm just responding to stuff in this thread.

backing up your work is just good practice wherever you are and whatever you're writing.

I don't consider Google to be a backup for anything they don't have an SLA for and a TOS that doesn't suggest they might come up with a reason to unilaterally yoink the material.

 

[Actingup]

Not sure why I'm being called out for it, I'm just responding to stuff in this thread.


I don't consider Google to be a backup for anything they don't have an SLA for and a TOS that doesn't suggest they might come up with a reason to unilaterally yoink the material.

It wasn't you in particular, but pointing out how far off track things have gone. I agree wrt Google.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

You think Laurel was lying?

idk what you're referring to. Link?

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...literotica-created-now.1648295/post-102212589

I suppose I also implied, @PennyThompson isn't lying.

 

[EmilyMiller]

This is probably a bad idea that I will regret, but...

When Laurel messaged me that one time to clarify their dev server situation, I replied to her asking if she'd ever considered appointing a Community Liaison that could do the kind of interactions people here are asking for.

Her response was (I'm going to paraphrase because last time I shared a DM from her I was told that I shouldn't, and was encouraged to delete it):

• AH is an extremely tiny proportion of Lit's authors, and is not particularly representative.
• She does occasionally post and reply in AH, in situations where she thinks it might be helpful to clarify something.
• When she does, many of the replies are inevitably argumentative and distrustful, and she doesn't feel that it's productive to engage with those posters.

And nothing in the back half of this thread had made me think she's wrong

Can confirm