Thanks for your ideas on this.
I think we should definately send out a warning email before automatically deleting unused accounts. This seems only polite and it's something we've been meaning to do for a while (I'll bump it up on the priorities).
Obviously we want people to be actively using their accounts and don't want them to leave, especially since many members seem to take a break from the site and then return, sometimes years later. Perhaps we could have a 'sleep' option for accounts, where their content remains, but but it's clear to other members that their account is not currently active. This would fit in well with your suggestion about the 'online' indicator. The 'sleeping' member could then return whenever they're ready and their account would be as they left it. This would help with posts being deleted from forum threads, making the thread difficult to read. The sleeping accounts would take a bit of work to implement, so it may be something for the longer term.
3 years
Wow that's a lot of stories. Sounds like it will take a bit of effort, but it will make the searching much more comprehensive.
It will enable members to be able to find the stories their interested in much more easily, including older stories which are just as relevent now. We have an archive of nearly 5,000 stories and members should be able to dig stories out even if they were posted 10 years ago.
We've got moderators and members working on updating the archive, but if as many authors as possible can update their own stories this should cut down the work load considerably. Many hands make light work.
Thanks for your help on this.
3 years
Thanks for updating. I've marked off you story.
3 years
We've just uploaded a major improvement to the stories section that will greatly improve the searching capability, making it much easier for people to find the stories their after. It's based on the story categories we've been woking on with members in another forum thread you may have seen
fantasyfeeder.com/forum/posts.
When you create new stories, you can now tag them with with these new search categories, which will make it much easier for your stories to be found in the future.
However, none of the existing stories have these categories, so unless you update them they will be much more difficult for your readers to find.
To update the search tags on your existing stories, go to 'my stories' and edit each story in turn (when you get to the story edit page, click the pink rond edit icon and select the most appropriate categories for your story).
Once all your stories have been updated, please let us know below and we'll mark them off in the admin section as having been done.
3 years
We recognise that there are still some technical issues, but I can assure you we have been working tirelessly to try and make this site the best it can be. I agree that a lot of this is a cultural change, this site has been around since 2003, and many members have been here from the start, so we've witnessed the change personally. It seems to have become the norm now to ask for money first and think about real relationships second, because 'why not?'. This isn't helped by the simps that seem to give their money away easily to 'web models' on Kik, and then complain to us that they didn't receive their content. This only encourages bad behaviour.
Many websites are not as heavily moderated as we are, but we made the decision a few years back to clamp down hard on this begging behaviour because we could see it was destructive to the community. I'm also pleased that there's been a push back by the community from members like yourselves to show that begging is not tolerated here, not matter what goes on in the wider community.
We've introduced verified profiles which should help, as the number of members that become verified increases over time. We're also looking to reintroduce many of the community events that went by the wayside to help encourage a community spirit. As said above, for many people this is a lifestyle, and we can all help and encourage each other in this.
3 years
Moved to personal ads forum.
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