Re: Bugs & Maintenance Requests

Ok. This one's a minor quibble, but only because I just discovered that it's only in one section, and it can be worked around.

In the Portfolio, in the Content (#3) portion of one's book, the Chapter Number for Prologue is 0 and Epilogue is 100. You are given the option to edit those chapter numbers directly on that screen (by clicking on the numbers). But you can't set it as "0" for Prologue, because it won't accept that 0 is a number.

(And yes, that's a long time mathematical debate, I'm well aware.)

If you do the same thing from the Publish (#4) portion, it takes you to the edit chapter location, and that can let you set it as Prologue. So it can be done. It just doesn't work quite right in that other area.

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127 Reply by Dirk B (edited by Dirk B 2025-09-14 05:31:35)

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Sol, we're now seeing spammers creating groups on the site. Four very recently, plus an old abandoned one. I renamed all groups to be deleted Obsolete 0 thru Obsolete 4.

Is it possible for you to easily disable the ability of trial members to create new groups? That would likely eliminate most if not all spam groups. I added a new group tonight called "READ ME BEFORE CREATING NEW GROUPS!" specifically to provide guidance for legitimate members thinking of creating one.

Personally, I think trial members should have to wait to create new groups. We haven't had a single successful group created by a trial member since they don't know anyone on the site, don't know if anyone else would be interested in a new group, don't know that they need to advertise new groups, don't know that most current members generally don't use non-Premium groups (especially not the non-Premium forums, with one or two exceptions), etc.

Thanks
Dirk

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Hi Sol and Dirk,

On Sept. 14th (2 Regular Reviews) and Sept. 17th (1 Regular Review) I posted 3 total Regular Reviews on J.R. Geiger's short stories; The Goat of All Time, Hair Club for Olympians?, and Agis vs the Modern Toaster. They no longer show up in my Reviews, nor when one clicks on J.R.'s stories. Just wondered if there was any way to restore these, or should I post new reviews for all three?

Thanks,
-warren

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I can't reproduce it. I had no trouble leaving a regular review against The Goat, and I started writing another regular review for Hair Club but abandoned it before submitting to see if it would show in my "saved" reviews that hadn't been submitted, but as expected, that only works for inlines.

As a test, please try to leave another regular review for J.R. on The Goat and on one other of his short stories that you haven't yet tried to review. Just throw some random gibberish into the text fields, so there's something to save. Please make a note of the results and then try leaving a test inline review against those same two stories (you'll need to leave at least five comments and closing comments to be able to submit those).

I assume there's no question you scrolled down and hit the button to publish the regular reviews that went missing? If in doubt, blame the user. :-)

If something doesn't work right, please try to do the same tests (regular review and an inline review) against one of my short stories. That's to determine if the issue is with J.R.'s account or yours.

Please post the results of your tests here.

Thanks
Dirk

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Hi Dirk,
Thanks for getting back to me. I double-checked my point tally and it definitively shows that I left the three reviews for J.R. Geiger, and the points awarded to my tally. I left a review for Marilyn Johnson on the 18th, and that one is still there, so I don’t think it’s my account.

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It may not be your account, but the simple test cases I suggested earlier will help narrow down what account bug or feature bug may be doing this. As I noted above, I was unable to reproduce it using my account to review J.R.'s short stories.

If your reviews saved properly, there's a possibility that they're still in the database.

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Sol,

Kdot got kicked out of the site while posting a fairly short follow-up to an existing thread (near the end of the VQF thread in the Fantasy+ forum).
And I got kicked out while typing a somewhat longer post in a new thread in the Premium forum about Gemini and capitalization.

Any chance the hunt for this bug and a fix can move up in priority.

Thanks
Dirk

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Just putting this put there. When you're on the homepage, and you see that there's new messages posted in a forum, and you click on the message, it takes you to the first page of the thread, and not the most recent.
It's not a need-to-do-this-now thing, but it might be nice if it took us to the end of the thread instead of the beginning?
Thanks.

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Tamsin Liddell wrote:

Just putting this put there. When you're on the homepage, and you see that there's new messages posted in a forum, and you click on the message, it takes you to the first page of the thread, and not the most recent.
It's not a need-to-do-this-now thing, but it might be nice if it took us to the end of the thread instead of the beginning?
Thanks.

All you have to do is click on the last page to see the most recent post on the subject. Often, the later posts have gone astray from the original, so starting at the beginning, and who started it, can ground you in the issue.

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jack the knife wrote:

can ground you in the issue.

or the absurdity! LOL!

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But the point isn't to get to the last page, but the oldest article you haven't seen yet, and if you just hop to the last page, you wipe that info out of the database.

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