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After a little time on the site, here are some of the things that I feel could still use adjustment:

1. 'Connections" automatically populating your home page. I want the choice of what populates my page.

2. Keeping up with people (as compared to the old site) is a laborious click fest. Between searching through review replies, or replies of replies, forum after forum after forum, private messages, quickies....it's a fractured mess and I don't feel one bit connected to folks anymore.

3. Hand in hand with #1, I resent that the same covers for the same essays and articles sit on my homepage (and presumably all homepages) for weeks because those genres are nowhere near as prolific as the books/novels category. Yet, novelists are lucky if their cover shows up on everyone's homepage for an hour.

4. Whole 1st page upload listings being populated by a single writer/project because they're posting multiple chapters at once. It would be nice to be able to do that without skewing everyone's homepage view. Perhaps if each cover showed chapters 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 42 uploaded as new content--instead of parsing it out to be 6 separate covers with only a single chapter listed in each, would solve this issue entirely.

5. A way to flag something as edited and up for new review--within the same project. We shouldn't have to be creating entirely new projects for edits of existing projects. And I really don't want to be forced to scan through these multiple versions of the same project to ensure I'm seeing/saving/using all the valuable feedback. Talk about a fractured click-fest. On the flip side, because there is often a lapse of time between reads/reviews, I rely very heavily on my past reviews to catch me back up with where I left off on someone's project. Not having that easily accessible, or worse, being forced to click into infinity before I find my last review on that person's project just so I can leave new comments--it's a serious mess that can't be overstated. The last review I did took me a full 20 minutes to begin because I had to go searching for my last review. Then, by the time I found and read it, I'd forgotten all the stuff I wanted to say on the new one so I had engage in the click-fest again to navigate back to the new content and refresh myself....all before I could write a single word of critique. This has seriously cut into my available review time and as a result, I've cut my reviews back by about 60%.

6. Remove the forced homepage listings and create a GLOBAL upload listing of new work that we can either access through a drop down, or if it has to be connected to our homepage, give us the option to turn it off and on from view. That way we can access listings of new works with ease, yet not have our homepage cluttered with stuff we don't necessarily want to see on a daily basis (see #3). Ideally, I would like the option of deciding what populates my homepage (see #1).

There's more, but these are the biggest things I'm noticing with the most frequency.

Strongest Start time of year--it ALWAYS happens.

Wait a few more days Janet. I've rewritten one, but have only just begun on 2 & 3. I'll shout when the newer versions of those are up.

Welcome Shearluck!  We have a huge group of people that have been with an older version of this site for many years. But like you, there is a giant new crop of new faces that have just arrived since the new site interface was launched. It might be a little tough getting attention right away, but there's a few things you can do to help.

First, review as much as possible. As a reciprocal workshop, reviewing is our communication bread and butter. The more you do it, the more people you'll get to know. It takes a little time, but since that's what this site is really all about, it's the best first approach. Second is to join the group called OLD FORUMS and get to know some of the long-time members who comment there most often. Unlike some of the newer faces, we're a bit more familiar with tips and tricks for getting this site to work for you.

Good luck! I hope your membership turns out to be what you're looking for.

I have company flying in tomorrow, but I'll try to get on it as soon as possible.

Grats Janet!  I'm in rewrite hell, but loving every minute of it.

Great news!!  But just as a bug FYI, the link you offered takes you to contest info--clicking into the provided links of past winners takes you to the wrong works.

You have to add the file to a file hosting service that generates IMG code for you. Beyond that, I'm not sure how else to post images. Good luck!
Here you go!

sweet!