Bug Reports & Admin Requests (Page 2 of 4)

Apricots, you don't normally have to add your own title/author name to the image. The site can do that for you. I'm not sure why you ran into trouble with that.

7sisterseen, if I remember correctly, I've run into the same problem as you in the past. It may have to do with the image itself. I don't know what caused it, but you may want to try a few different images (and image/file types) to see if that fixes it. If no one here can suggest something that works, you can contact SolN for help.

I use Pic Monkey for my covers, basics are free and only about 5 dollars a month for a subscription. I usually find an image on google that matches my idea for a cover. Then I down load it to my computer and then use the create from your computer function on Pic Monkey. Once down loaded I can photo shop effects and add a title from font I pick and place it where I want to on the image. Then I reload to my computer, making sure it's gif or jpeg. Then I go to the create a cover function and down load it there. If the file is too big, I go back to Pic Monkey and resize it.

It takes a while to learn the Pic Monkey program, but after you do, you'll get faster and the results will look professional. I've just uploaded a cover and every thing worked, so I hope this helps.

My italics don’t transfer over either. Nor do my paragraph breaks. That’s a long-standing issue. Didn’t used to be the case when I was using Explorer before going to Chrome. But then Explorer didn’t work either. I’ve used MS Word throughout. It’s a pain, but I’ve gotten used to it, though I sometimes miss one when I edit on the site. I brought this up to Sol a long time ago. Still waiting for a remedy.

I know it's not a sitewide issue as I'm still getting all the emails--have you checked your spam/junk email folder?

The "search by title" field on the Review tabs doesn't seem to work. I searched for two variants of a short story I wrote, originally called "Dune - Into the Worm", then renamed to "Dune - The Atreides Worm". I searched for both titles under regular reviews received and inline reviews received. There are definitely inline reviews for the latter version of the story, which is still up. Not sure if I deleted the former or simply republished under the new name. Probably the latter since I like to hang on to the reviews.

Yes, I've run into the frequent time out as well.

Sol, do you still plan to fix the "make sticky" feature that no longer shows up for some member accounts? I still hope to make a number of other posts sticky in the groups that I moderate. Feel free to log in as me to verify the missing functionality (I can give you my password if you need it).

I also continue to find examples of people accidentally sending themselves quickees. I had suggested an easy fix for that on page one of this thread. Ditto for an easy way to avoid new members accidentally creating multiple books when they intend to add chapters.

Thanks
Dirk

Thanks!

One further potential tweak to the "send quickee" interface is to throw up an error message if someone tries to send themselves a quickee, with an explanation of how to do it right.

Dave, are you encountering this inside the publish wizard? If so, your previous attempt to post the chapter is probably already saved. Click on the Publish step at the top of the wizard and see if the new chapter is already listed there. If so, you need only click on the green publish button now that you have the points.

Go to your home page (click Home on the blue bar along the top) and click on your picture. That'll take you to your public profile, which currently shows your two books. Click on the book to which you want to add the new chapter. From there, click on the +Chapter button. That takes you to the Add Chapter step inside the publish wizard (the publishing steps are listed at the top). Since I can't see your account, there are two possibilities: either the site has already saved your previous attempt to add a new chapter, or it hasn't.

Click on the Publish step (#4) at the top to see if there is a saved version of your chapter from your previous attempt to add it. If there is, it should show in the list of chapters on the screen, with a green Publish button next to it. If it's there, you only need to click that button and follow the remaining steps.

If the chapter you intended to publish is not there, then click back to the Add Chapter step (#3) at the top and fill in the details. If you're trying to add a chapter number that already exists in your book, it won't let you, which may be what you're running into. For example, your Cadet - Chapter 3 book already has a chapter 1 in it. And your Cadet - Chapter 4 book already has a chapter 4 in it. You can either choose a different chapter number, or use the same chapter number but a different version number. Version numbering is used when you're trying to post a revised version of an existing chapter for people to re-review.

If none of the above works, please post a follow up to the Writing Tips & Site Help group (this Bug Report forum thread is really more for bug reports). Let me know to which book you're trying to post the new chapter and what chapter number you're trying to use. If the chapter number is already used and you want to change the existing number to something else (e.g., if you want to make your existing chapter 1 in book 3 into chapter 2), please let me know that too. It may just be a matter of renumbering the existing chapter before posting the new chapter, which is easy to do, but I need more detail.

Thanks
Dirk