Hiccupx:
There is a weighting for premium stories also which should compensate for lack of likes.
We find that on this site, as with in the wider world, the authors that become the top sellers as those that build up a following. This can take time and effort, but the benefits are worth it, and we have authors that regularly earn several hundred dollars a month.
The key is for people to get to know your work, and the most effective way for this is to upload some short stories for free. If members enjoy your free stories, then it's much less of a risk for them to purchase a premium story, and in our experience once their hooked on an author's work, they'll look out for the notifications whenever you upload something new.
Of course we're always happy to discuss with authors about improvements to the website and how to better promote work. C00kie is currently collecting feedback and ideas on this for future developments.
Letters And Numbers:
Why not change it so non-premium members can like premium stories?
Or allow a writer start off a regular story and convert it to premium?
In the wider world, a book that can make a bookstore money isn’t hidden under a mountain of free pamphlets.
First chapters of premium stories are free to read for all members so readers can sample some of the story before purchasing.
What hiccupx is saying is that to promote premium stories they have a higher score so they appear in listing's even though they are new to the site and don't have many views or likes.
Once your story has been up for a bit, the views and likes will add to the score. But ultimately, when new stories are added... It is only fair to highlight these too.
Giving the options for readers to like a story that they haven't been able to read in full doesn't really seem fair.
We try to balance both free and premium stories on the site so it's fair to every author and reader. Everyone wants exposure and people need to be able to find content that's suitable.
We're not hiding premium stories from being purchased but you have to admit in the real world, authors don't start off being best selling authors... That's all hiccupx is saying. Make the most of your audience as this is a niche site with members who are into fat fiction and your not competing against difference genres. If you get a following on the site this will help with your sales.
2 years
I just wanted to say that this is fab and we love members input on how the site can be improved.
Hiccupx and I have been speaking about how we can get more user feedback for features people want, improvements etc... so I will keep an eye on this and if anyone is interested we might start creating surveys we can send to members, or even user experience trials. If anyone is interested in taking part in this just reach out!
I will start to compile of list of folks that are happy to be involved, and we can go from there!
Thanks,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
FF Team:
Hi LydiaFatOtter,
Thank you for the suggestion I will pass this on to hiccupx and see what he thinks. Usually the forum headings are detailed and state if the person posting the ad is looking or a feeder or feedee. But I agree having a separate forum for both would make things easier.
Take care,
c00kie
FF Team
LydiaFatOttter:
Sadly many people do not know how to make it clear.
if anything I think their should be firms rules what you put on in the titles such as
"feeder looking for feedee in online one day leading IRL located in UK goal size 600 pounds"
So you must say your role the role you are looking for if you are waiting online or IRL and location by state/country you are located in as well as the size goal of feedee
failing to do so will get the post removed.
At the start I could see it take a while for people get the idea but some work by mod team I think it can be done.
also following a hard title standard would allow ads to lookup even if they are long buried in the post listings
I think this is a great idea. Maybe not as a hard rule, but to have as a sort of standard template. I will point hiccupx in this direction to see what we can do!
Thanks!
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
Hi thanks for getting in touch, I have checked profiles located in the areas with flags you have advised are displaying incorrectly, and have not found this to be the case.
This does seem odd, as we use a standard icon for country flags, so there should not be any difference between profiles based in the same location.
Can you please advise if this is still happening?
If so can you please provide the specific username that is showing the incorrect flag colours?
Thanks,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
2seatsalways:
For the time being this was resolved. If I have issues again I will reach out.
Great to hear you are no longer experiencing any issues, do let us know if this happens again.
Take care,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
Hi LydiaFatOtter,
Thank you for the suggestion I will pass this on to hiccupx and see what he thinks. Usually the forum headings are detailed and state if the person posting the ad is looking or a feeder or feedee. But I agree having a separate forum for both would make things easier.
Take care,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
Hi Fat On The Inside,
Thanks for reaching out. I have checked your account and there does appear to be an issue.
Your profile ahs not been removed, as is sometimes the case with these queries. I have tried to remove and re-add the profile with our admin tool. But it still shows as unviewable.
I will need to raise this with the site owner to look into further.
Please accept my apologies for an inconvenience.
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
All issues have now been resolved. Thank you for your patience!
Take care,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
Hi all,
We have uploaded an update this morning and unfortunately we're experiencing a few teething issues. Some pages haven't been working which has now been fixed, but there are a few other issues such as the message viewing limit that we are still working on.
We should get this all fixed by the end of today, 4pm BST. Once fixed your message views will be reinstated. So not to worry!
Apologies for any inconvenience, but do please bear with us, we are aware of the issues and are working hard to get this fixed for you!
Cheers,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
We don't make announcements of the site schedule. This is simply because things change, and certain projects and improvements overrun so we can't commit to specific deadlines. We work flexibly because we are a very small team. So sometimes improvements and new features need to be put on hold, due to needing hiccupx to work on other site areas such as critical bugs or a new issues that arise that become a priority.
Most of the time we simply soft launch improvements, and new features without making a big song and dance about it, and of course when improvements are being made to the back end of the site, users won't necessarily notice. Although sometimes a forum post or notification will be added to make users aware of changes and improvements.
We are constantly and continually working on the site and we log users suggestions so that when we get round to working on a site area or project we can check bugs or suggestions users have made that we can implement with the update.
Sometimes this means that users requests are not actioned straight away and may take some time to be addressed, but we do save them and refer to them when we create our work/ project plans.
Chat is such a mammoth task that needs a complete overhaul and tbh I would say it's unlikely to be this year, although it was on our plan for 2023. So this is likely to be rescheduled for early 2024. However this may change, we may get time to start work on it, or it may be postponed.
Thanks,
c00kie
FF Team
2 years
