626 Reply by SolN

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That said, are you suggesting we use a series of regular or inline feedback reviews to have a discussion? I suppose reviews could be used for that (the complete set of reviews appears right after the chapter), although that workflow right now would involve an awful lot of clicking and scrolling. And how would we be notified if someone has added another review to someone else's work? Are the coming enhancements going to address all of that?

Why does it involve more clicking and scrolling then going to another forum, finding the thread, going to the end of it and leaving a comment? I don't really  understand the logic of this workflow.

In terms of being notified, this is something we can add in the future and seems like a much better solution than creating a new forum for every piece of posted content. Assuming the author wants others to be notified.

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627 Reply by SolN

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I've had the thought several times that perhaps the blanket email notifications should be cut off.  What could replace them would be a checkbox on each of your connections that was labeled: "Allow email notifications from this connection".  If you read a posting from someone who isn't on your connections and didn't particularly like the posting, but wanted to see more, then connect but don't check the box.  However, if you did like it, then make the connection and add the tick in the box.

This already exists. You can turn off email notifications per connection. It says this at the bottom of the email alerts. You can do this via your Connections page.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/connections

Sol

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628 Reply by SolN

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Much bigger wish item: for each author, and for each work, an authomatically created forum thread that appears in its own place AND ALSO can, at the author's discretion, appear in each or any of the groups in which the author is a member.  For the 'root' groups (premium and ?base?) the author/work threads should probably be shunted to a nested set of forums.

I don't understand the purpose of this. Right now, you can leave as many comments as you want on a piece of writing. You can have conversations and within in-line reviews you can even have multiple threads where you can discuss items right in the document. We'll be expanding this functionality soon.  Why would you want to take these discussions back to a forum which is just loosely attached to the work in question? This seems like a massive step backward. The most logical way forward to me is that comments on the work should be on the work, not on an associated forum.

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629 Reply by SolN

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That's the thread I deleted. That's the reason you can't access it. I guess I need to change the messaging for deleted threads.

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630 Reply by SolN

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Are you able to access the rest of the forum besides the thread you are referring to? This sometimes happens  when a thread is removed. I did remove one today so that could have been it.

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631 Reply by SolN

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Just create a new version if the book and publish it in the points group as you get the points. You can purchase some points if you absolutely need them fast. We had this on the old site and will be launching the option this week.

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632 Reply by SolN

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Would it be helpful if we converted them for you? It's something we are playing with.

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633 Reply by SolN

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So if I use the good advice I have had in in-line reviews and publish a new draft, will it cost me a bunch of points again?

You can edit the draft you have already published for no additional points, or you can publish a new version of the content, which will cost the typical number of points to publish.

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634 Reply by SolN

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Vern is right. You can just publish it again. It's a better option than the old re-publish option.

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635 Reply by SolN

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Hi Meli,

You changed your settings to private. To change it back, you needed to make the changes and then click the Save button. You were not saving the changes you made.
- Sol

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636 Reply by SolN

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This always happen. Inform them these kind of reviews won't fly. I'll do the same and suspend them if needed. You can also delete these reviews from your content.

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637 Reply by SolN

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Hello,
I have a story that I'm co-writing with a friend of mine and we would like to enter the competition. I was wondering if we can submit our story and if yes, is it enough if I submit it and state that it is written by the both of us or do we have to do anything else?
Tünde

That's fine.

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638 Topic by SolN

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Hi all,

We are pleased to offer a new class entitled Perfecting Your Short Story. The class is designed to help anyone with a draft short story bang it into shape and also learn more about the art of writing this type of literature.

You can read more about the class here:

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/group-p … e-class-58

The class is scheduled to begin on February 23, 2015 and will run for 4-weeks. The cost is $108 for Premium members, $120 for other members.

The instructor is Elena Cabrera, a master's candidate at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where she is pursing an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in fiction. As an undergraduate at Fairfield University, she majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and spent all four years taking creative writing workshops and courses on publishing. For three years, she worked as the Managing Editor for the university's literary journal, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose where she read hundreds of short stories, poems, and non fiction essays. Her short story "How Lucky We Have it" was published in the Spring 2013 edition of The Collegiate Scholar, a literary journal created by The National Society of Collegiate Scholars.  After graduation, she worked as an editorial intern at Sourcebooks, Inc. where she read and edited romance novels and women's fiction.

We'll also be launching a poetry class shortly as well as an encore of the popular Strongest Start Class taught by Anita Mumm.

Sol

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639 Topic by SolN

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Hi all,

We made two changes to the homepage over the last couple of days.

1.  Under each content type there is now an orange button that brings you to more content for that particular type. For instance, under the listing of Books is a button that says: Find More Books. This should make it easier to browser for content that is no longer on the homepage list.

2. We have re-organized the alerts section, breaking them out into Feedback and Communication.

Thanks,
Sol

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640 Reply by SolN

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Hi Lesley,
It's not optimized for posting from an ipad right now but it should be possible. What version iPad are you using? I'll run some tests over the next couple of days. We do have some fixed planned that should improve the situation for all iPad users shortly either way.
- Sol

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641 Reply by SolN

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Hi all,
Just a note that we had to turn off connection emails for the weekend. There was a bug. We'll have it fixed and running in the next couple of days.

Sol

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642 Reply by SolN

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I haven't been getting ANY email notices of my connections posting content. Same problem I had with the old system. I didn't receive any notices of Charles Brass posting, for instance. I'll (triple) check my settings, just to be sure, but if you could look into that, I'd appreciate it.

We didn't have emails on the new site until this afternoon. Check your spam folder to make the emails aren't going there. By Monday we'll have a new fix in that should limit emails going to spam.

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643 Reply by SolN

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The problem I've been having when using my tablets, Kindle Fire and Dell is with the inline highlighting. Without a mouse I can only highlight the width of my finger. When I drag nothing happens. Is this something you're working on?

Are you pressing and waiting for the cursor to appear and then seeing two arrows appear at either end that you can lengthen to select the text? I will do a video next week that describes exactly how to do an inline on mobile. Maybe this is the problem.

It should definitely work on Kindle as I've tested it extensively on one. It should also be okay on Dell. Let  me know how you are doing inlines and then we can take it from there.

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644 Reply by SolN

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Now, I want to side with GP. Can you make the site more iPad friendly?

Yes, we'll tackle this over the next couple of weeks.

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645 Topic by SolN

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Hi all,

We made several significant changes/improvements to the site this week.

1. On registration every new member is now given a 30 day trial of Premium Membership along with 7.5 points. So, let's welcome the new members with hellos, connections, and reviews. You'll earn points for it.

2. We also closed the Free Group to new members so while the group will stick around for the moment, no one new will be able to find or or join it.

3. You will now receive email alerts when your connections post content. You can choose to turn these off for any connection by going to the Connections page.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/connections

If you experience any problems, let me know.

Thanks,
Sol

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646 Reply by SolN

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Go to your portfolio page. There is a tab that says Statistics on the upper  left of the page.

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647 Reply by SolN

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Actually, you can. If you go to the Statistics tab on the Portfolio section you can click over to reviews from there.

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648 Reply by SolN

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Sol, about the two postings of "The Watch" --  think what I did was accidently post to the Free group when I edited the unpublished story to add a cover picture. Then, I couldn't see it anywhere, so I thought, "Another disappearing posting," and started from square one. Thus, it is there twice. The reason the story doesn't show up in the New Short Story list on my Home page is that I'm not a member of the free group, I think. I'll delete the unpublished one. Later, when I get the points, I'll publish it in the Premium group. I hope you haven't spent time trying to figure this one out.

Okay, thanks. Good to know.
Sol

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649 Reply by SolN

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You can reply anytime. Just go to your reviews received, open the review and you can then reply. There is even a filter so that you can find reviews received that yo have not responded to yet.

Sol

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650 Reply by SolN

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I don't think you published it to any groups. Right now, it's just visible to your connections because it's not published anywhere else. You need to add it to a group or groups in order to have it appear on the homepage of others who belong to those groups.

To do that:

1. Go to portfolio
2. Find work and click Action and then Publish Setup.
3. Choose the groups you want to publish it to and then click Update Publish Settings.

That should do it. It might take a few minutes to appear on homepage.

Sol

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