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A couple of little nits from me also: When I first come to the site, the top of the page says "Login". Clicking that produces the drop-down labeled "Login", but the button we press after entering username/password is labeled "Sign in". The next button below that is labeled 'Join", which is not a problem.

My activity drop-down in the upper right corner will automatically drop down on mouse hover in some cases, but not all. In the forums, for example, I have to actually click the button to get the drop-down. It will change color to show the mouse activated it, but not drop down automatically.  I can live with it either way, but it should be consistent.

Tom

Being totally retired now (at 72), I can sit down at the computer most any time and do some writing. In my head I do revisions, plot shifts, and all sorts of mental gymnastics. They say that mental acuity is enhanced by writing and I firmly believe that because most of the plot is not written down.  I have a list of characters, a local file that is used to nominally lay down a plot, and sort of diagram with the characters and how they interact with each other. I'm always fiddling with that diagram.  But mostly I keep to my computer room and click away. My granddaughter can't believe how fast I type she hears me late into the night.  But, she's 25 now, and can fend for herself.

~Tom

Great work, Sol.   Very much appreciated here.

Tom

I like the way Booksie does it: a main genre dropdown, and then you add a bunch of tags that further define the work.  They are not hashtags, but just simple word (or words connected with an underscore).  For instance, under Romance you can have 'adventure', ''chase', 'capture', 'Russian_Spies', and so on and so forth.  That way, you don't have a lot of items in the dropdown to search through.

Tom

I have to go with an older group of movies:

Since You Went Away
The Best Times of Our Lives
Casablanca
So Proudly we Hail
Mrs. Miniver
Strategic Air Command
The Glenn Miller Story

I will have to add "The Princess Bride" since I'm 'mostly dead' anyway.

EDIT: and I forgot two more: "Love Actually".  This one is several romances rolled into one movie and "Outsourced", which is hilarious as well as romantic.

Tom

Hi, Linda.  I am probably one of those new guys that need to get off the dime and start doing more reviews.  Now that the holidays  are over and my family's mini-maelstrom has pretty much resolved itself, I'll get busy and do some reading/commenting.

Tom

I got busy elsewhere so it had to be around half an hour and it still wasn't posted.  Next time I post, I'll leave things as they are and see if/when it makes it to the top.

Thanks, Sol.

Tom

Sol, I have a small item for the wishlist and I am very aware of how difficult this could be to implement.

A bit of background: My vision is not what it should be.  Let's face it - I'm getting older.  Fonts and color combinations that wouldn't have bothered me a few years ago are beginning to really "bug" me.  Sites that have jumped on the "black is GREAT"" bandwagon leave me completely cold - especially if they use grey or some other low-contrast color for fonts.  This site, while nice and white uses a light blue font that is very tiring to my eyes.  Making a highlight in order to change/delete in this box, for instance, is kind of a light-yellow color and barely distinguishable to my eyes.  Not at all like the blue highlight in an in-line review.  For my own use in my web browser I've devised a script (for Pale Moon) I call "colorchange".  What it does is remove the colors to fonts and the like, including background colors.  It works here, but only to a limited extent.

What would be great is if we could have a change to our "settings" page that added check boxes or something that indicated whether or not we wanted light blue fonts or just plain black.  The font size icons are nice, but color can't be changed.

EDIT:  After holding a magnifying glass to the screen, I've determined that the font on this page seems to be black, but the very faint blue background makes the font appear with a blue tinge.  Killing the background color makes the font stand out much better - and it is black now.  Apparently, it is an optical illusion on my part.  Some control over local font (color and/or size) might be handy though.

Tom

That is a very interesting web site you have, Avraham.  I wasn't prepared (at 0030) for audio to come rumbling through my sound system from your video. I see you use the VLC video driver instead of flash, which my FlashBlock stops cold.  I'll have to remember that next time.

Tom

Me too, Janet.  Good question.

Tom

Strange thing happened just now.  I updated my novel with a new chapter, but it isn't being shown as "new writing from your connections". The only thing that shows my my old chapter 9, not my new chapter 10.

EDIT: Interesting...  When I went to my novel and clicked "Update publishing selections", my new chapter is now being displayed.  Do we have to do that every time we publish a new chapter?  I don't remember doing it before.

Tom