Is the ability to have copyright statement automatically added going to return at some point? Or should we start putting a manual one in the Author's note or something like that? Just realized today there's no copyright statement on any of the stories.

Okay, so I am fiddling with story submission and tested the "Show on profile" to see what it does. If you set it to "No" then it prompts for an author name. So does that mean if you submit with Show on Profile set to "No" and a name entered, it will show in the Stories list as being by that name with no connection to your profile? Is this a way to have a "pen name"? Or will there still be some indication of which user account posted it? I am not sure what to think of it because I am not really willing to submit using it just to see what happens.

Maggie? Molly? New site guys?

I may have a new favorite comics writer, or at least someone who is up there with Neil Gaiman, my old favorite. Kieron Gillen is, like Gaiman, English. He has done everything from creator-owned indie comics to writing for some major Marvel titles (Star Wars, X-men). I discovered him through Once & Future, a fantasy series about the return of King Arthur ... as an undead villain. After that, I started looking up what else Hoopla had by him.

I am now reading an older series of his called Phonogram (he owns the rights and Image Comics is the distributor). It is set in the early noughties music scene in the UK (Bristol, I think) and has people capable of music-based magic called phonomancers. A lot of the action takes place in clubs. In fact, the second series, collected into the graphic novel The Singles Club, has seven parallel stories, each about a different character, taking place on a single night in the same club. Very well-written and I am quite enjoying it, even if a lot of the music references require visits to Google (e.g. I had never heard of The Pippettes or Long Blondes before). Gillen was a music and gaming writer before he started doing comic books and it shows.

My badges look okay but I don't have an actual pre-upgrade count to check against so I'm can't say that's 100% sure. I have all my comp badges for sure, though.

More of a question than an issue:

Is there a way to send a PM to multiple addresses? When I select a second address, it overwrites the first one. I guess this prevents "spamming" but there are times when it is legit to "cc" another user or two.

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Also, I ended up starting a totally new story last night even though I've not finished the one I'm still working on. Maybe that will help me finish it somehow?

Oh, I did just find a place where age shows up (belated apologies to GodsAngel). If you hover over a username in the My Friends list, the pop-up shows age. Please remove it or give us control over it so we can decide if it shows. There's no point to making the birthdate on our profiles private but then revealing our age in the profile preview. Same pop-up also shows if you hover over a username in your Inbox but I assume it's calling the same window so fixing it in one will fix all.

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Strange. Are they really old ones or something? I know mine are all there but I only started writing here 5 years ago and most of mine date to the past two.

Good afternoon. Hadn't realized no one had set things up this morning. I guess I was too focussed on learning new toys still. It's getting late, but I put a pot on for those who want coffee for their afternoon "tea". Kettle is also on.

Good luck with the critique group. I should probably get involved in something like that. Have never really delved into the literary scene around here. This must be one. Emma Donoghue, author and screenwriter of Room and one of Canada's top authors at the moment, lives in London (originally from Ireland, though) and there's a few other Canadian authors from this area.

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Love this paragraph. Wells was one of my earliest sci-fi reads.

The magnificent opening of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House:

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

The Jackson opening is another great one. Just didn't think of it earlier. Should pull that novel down and read it again. I have that and a collection of her short stories on my shelf.

"After you, my dear Alphonse." (from Jackson's story of the same name, far creepier in context than it sounds)

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Hopefully the issues will get resolved but until then I am leaving. thanks

I got a message saying the confirmation email was sent but I'm still waiting for it. 😐

I'm still waiting for a confirmation email so I can delete my account.

The opening paragraph of H. G. Well's The War of the Worlds. Sets the stage for what is to come beautifully. Richard Burton did a wonderful reading of it to open the concept album based on the novel by British producer Jeff Wayne.

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment."

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 I don't feel the site feels secure. I can't hide my age. 

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So how long until we get private albums/photos and my profile shows up if I'm not logged in? I can't delete the pictures that are showing. I don't feel the site feels secure. I can't hide my age. 

I still have to wait for my avatar to be approved?

Not sure about the other two off hand.

They need to let us hide birthdate for sure. Forcing us to show that probably violates a few privacy laws.

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I didn’t want to, because I knew it was depressing, but I watched Nomadland. It was as expected. But I watched because Francis M. is an incredible actor. I love her to bits. Someday, I want to see her to go Kathy Bates crazy in a movie. A hammer to the tied ankle would be delightful.

Next Up: The new Mortal Combat with the boy. We’ll take turns screaming, “MOR-TAL COM-BAT!”

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Chat (IM box) isn't working .  When I click on an old story link in my mail it says page not Found... 

So it's sad that friends can't chat here ..

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Just noticed that non-members can’t look at profile pages at all, so if they read a story they like, they can’t look up your others - unless there’s a setting for that I haven’t adjusted? 

One that Survivor pointed out in another thread:

At the end of stories, there used to be recommendations for other stories the reader might like. This should be brought back at some point, even if it is not a priority item.

Nice feature to bring back some day, though. Worth calling out its absence.

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Well, I don't know if my being almost 32 counts as "old fart territory," but I hear you. It's like - I remember when she was first born and have watched her grow up over the years, yknow? I feel like I blinked and now she's almost 18.

When you post an external image link (e.g. a Giphy gif) it is hiding text in the post similar to how videos used to.

There are no notifications being generated for comments. The only way to know if your stories are getting new comments is to keep checking My Comments. (if this is just a setting I am missing, let me know)

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All I want to know is, will I ever get my comments back. They really do mean so much to me. Thank you

They should all be back now. Even the replies to comments on stories are back since they re-imported the comments last night. And the comments on my profile are there now (you have scroll down a bit to get to comments in the profile, esp. on a mobile device).

No, I had six comments but now I only have two. It's not just me, if you look at Tams story The Mimic, all the comments are gone and I made a comment on your story Saturday Afternoons at the Opera, that has also gone. You had four comments but now you only have one. 

They did warn us before they re-imported the comments from the old site that comments made since the original conversion would be overwritten. I know that would apply to the comments on mine since that was posted after the upgrade. Would that apply to the ones on your story and Tams? Given that it fixed the profile comments and brought in the replies to story comments that were missing, I think I am okay with the small sacrifice.

Thank you. My play The Scarlet Lady had some lovely comments. It was posted on the new 2.0 so I guess they are now lost forever. I hope you managed to read my comment on your story before it was deleted. 

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When you post a YouTube video, there is no way to add text to it. I wrote something before I posted and tried to edit it in, but nothing.

https://www.storiesspace.com/forum/the-break-room/inspirations-the-stories-space-coffee-house?page=167&post=186417

In Stories, editing is disabled for old comp entries. I see no reason why this should be the case since it was possible to edit them on the old site and even for entries in a current comp, there is no rule about not editing an entry.

Log in tip:

If you are having login issues with Chrome on a desktop, go to Settings - Passwords and turn off Auto Sign-In. Then when you click Login and Chrome prompts to sign in with your stored username, click Cancel and login using the actual login screen. Make sure to click Remember Me on. After that, it seems to work properly. This may also work with other Chromium-based browsers, e.g. Microsoft Edge, Brave, Chromium (on the off chance anyone here uses Linux).

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All I want to know is, will I ever get my comments back. They really do mean so much to me. Thank you

They should all be back now. Even the replies to comments on stories are back since they re-imported the comments last night. And the comments on my profile are there now (you have scroll down a bit to get to comments in the profile, esp. on a mobile device).

No, I had six comments but now I only have two. It's not just me, if you look at Tams story The Mimic, all the comments are gone and I made a comment on your story Saturday Afternoons at the Opera, that has also gone. You had four comments but now you only have one.