Where do members show support or disappointment with a site "upgrade"?

[Fuzzy_Kbear]

Just wondering where I can Log complaints and/or support with changes to Literotica. Example is the new Archive notifications on the control panel page.
This is 100% user UN-friendly and makes what was a simple scroll and click a multiple step process that leaves me feeling like I'm missing things that I know I never missed before.
I relied on the old control panel page for updates on stories and new submission from favorited authors. now I'm not sure I'm getting that, or I feel like I'm missing them.

Does anyone else Have the same issue?

Does anyone know of another way I can make my concerns known where they will be heard and not ignored?


Thanks

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The feedback form is here: https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=81387&page=contact

The management has not really communicated by anything except announcements in a pretty long time.

--Annie

 

[Manu]

Thanks for the feedback. What is the difference for you that is making it a worse experience? The archive is a temporary list of "old" notifications and the main Activity Feed should work exactly the same as the previous one. In the future, the archive of old notifications won't be needed since it no longer updates. Thanks again.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Thanks for the feedback. What is the difference for you that is making it a worse experience? The archive is a temporary list of "old" notifications and the main Activity Feed should work exactly the same as the previous one. In the future, the archive of old notifications won't be needed since it no longer updates. Thanks again.

(1) "Pending" stories issue - were stories go into pending and simply stay there week after week after week
(2) false positives giving AI Rejection messages where AI is not used, ever, and no response to feedback or PM's
(3) stopped getting notifications by email,

 

[TheWritingGroup]

So you've decided to just discard older notifications? Because you have absolutely not made that clear in anything you've said in public.

I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do, but WARN PEOPLE so if they care, they can archive for themselves.

--Annie

 

[RocketGrunt]

Thanks for the feedback. What is the difference for you that is making it a worse experience? The archive is a temporary list of "old" notifications and the main Activity Feed should work exactly the same as the previous one. In the future, the archive of old notifications won't be needed since it no longer updates. Thanks again.

I'm not seeing notifications for comments on my stories that are made by anonymous accounts. When someone logged in leaves a comment I get the "[UserName] has commented on your story" notification, but when there are anonymous comments, I get nothing at all. Right now I'm only seeing them by chance. That's not good.

 

[Reliant8432]

I'm not seeing notifications for comments on my stories that are made by anonymous accounts. When someone logged in leaves a comment I get the "[UserName] has commented on your story" notification, but when there are anonymous comments, I get nothing at all. Right now I'm only seeing them by chance. That's not good.

To piggyback on this, I've tried to delete some nasty anonymous comments from some of my stories that showed up in my feed today, but they are still showing on the actual stories. I know it's hard to revert changes, but it's time to roll the site code back to before this update.

 

[lilshymynx]

So you've decided to just discard older notifications? Because you have absolutely not made that clear in anything you've said in public.

I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do, but WARN PEOPLE so if they care, they can archive for themselves.

--Annie

They didn't discard anything. They changed the way that the notification feed works on the backend, which required a 'resetting' of it of sorts. All of the notifications that existed before the switchover still exist, in the archive. It wasn't discarded, it was just placed in a new location.

 

[Manu]

I'm not seeing notifications for comments on my stories that are made by anonymous accounts. When someone logged in leaves a comment I get the "[UserName] has commented on your story" notification, but when there are anonymous comments, I get nothing at all. Right now I'm only seeing them by chance. That's not good.

This issue was found and fixed.

 

[Manu]

So you've decided to just discard older notifications? Because you have absolutely not made that clear in anything you've said in public.

I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do, but WARN PEOPLE so if they care, they can archive for themselves.

--Annie

Sorry for the last minute announcement about the update. For Authors who are even moderately popular, there was never a reliable way to see all of their older notifications. Like Twitter and old tweets, if you were to load enough old notifications, it would likely eventually overload your web browser's memory. The notifications are not intended to be forever since notifications that are thousands of notifications ago, or years old, don't have much value and were unlikely to be viewable in the classic system. The value is the ability to see what's happening with your Works and/or Favorite Authors "recently".

 

[TheWritingGroup]

agree. I just think you could avoid a lot of stress (including for yourself!) by having that very paragraph as an announcement in all activity feeds, say a week before you implement the change.

 

[Fuzzy_Kbear]

Thanks for the feedback. What is the difference for you that is making it a worse experience? The archive is a temporary list of "old" notifications and the main Activity Feed should work exactly the same as the previous one. In the future, the archive of old notifications won't be needed since it no longer updates. Thanks again.

Maybe it's just been a very clunky transition from what worked, to what you got now. All I know is when I was looking for my feed of notifications dates were not matching up, like I had 10/20/25 in old notification at the same time I had 10/18/25 in latest activity of this "new supposed better" system. Sorry but that does not compute, makes me wonder what I missed.

This is a case of; if it ain't broke don't fix it.

It wasn't broke, but you tried to fix it anyway.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Maybe it's just been a very clunky transition from what worked, to what you got now. All I know is when I was looking for my feed of notifications dates were not matching up, like I had 10/20/25 in old notification at the same time I had 10/18/25 in latest activity of this "new supposed better" system. Sorry but that does not compute, makes me wonder what I missed.

This is a case of; if it ain't broke don't fix it.

It wasn't broke, but you tried to fix it anyway.

Behind the scenes, there were probably millions of individual notifications in their database. I can certainly see that slowing things down and wasting storage on messages nobody looked at, and for really old ones had no way to look at.

--Annie