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DXEA news[23/09/2008 @666] Submissions ProblemsOver the last couple of months I have had technical problems concerning story submissions. At least two authors have been trying to submit a story but it has not succeeded. I have not been able to track down the source of the problem so far. I tried to submit a test story myself and it went through just fine, so I can't pinpoint the problem because the problem doesn't seem to occur for me. My submissions (on my normal user account, not an admin account) go through normally. So I am not getting any useful error data that would help me track down the problem. If you are having these problems and can document your progress through the submission process in some way, I would appreciate any and all data that would help me track down the problem. Error messages, screen captures, whatever. In the meantime until the problem is located, there is an easy way to see whether or not your story submission went through. Before you submit the story, check how many stories are waiting in queue. Then submit your story. If the queue number has increased by one, your story was submitted successfully. If the queue number has not changed, your story was not submitted, and you should try again, and maybe do something differently. If you normally use a mouse to click buttons, try using the keyboard. Or vice versa. Or try using a different browser. Try different things and maybe the malfunction is triggered by some specific way of making the submission. There has not been any coding alterations to the site in the last year, so it's unlikely that changed code is the cause of the problem. The codebase for the site is the same as it was in the spring when submissions went through without any problems. If you have any pertinent info to submit, please use the sidebar button "Contact DXEA". Apologies for the problems. [07/08/2008 @646] New Character Added!Today I have added to selection possibilities a new character: Neal Shaara/Thunderbird III. If any existing stories need to be upgraded to include him, please send email via the "Contact DXEA" button on the left sidebar. [11/10/2006 @541] Clarification on acceptable storiesNot often, but every now and then, I get a story that is not accepted for DXEA. At present, there is no code in place to send the submitter of the story a reason why the story was rejected, and I do not think I will code up one for reasons I shall outline here. All the stories that get rejected are, almost universally, rejected for one and only reason: they do not contain sex. Presumably, they were nonetheless submitted to DXEA is because the author intends to include sex in some future chapters. However, that is not sufficient for DXEA to accept any such stories. At DXEA my policy is that behind every click on a story title there should be sex. When readers come to this site, it is my assumption that they are looking for sex stories, and if they click on a title, and in the end get no sex in a story, they will feel cheated. The DXEA is not an archive for non-sexual fanfic. It is the Definitive X-Men *Erotica* Archive for a reason, and behind every click should be a sex story, not a chapter that *might* lead to sex later on. So if you have a longer story that has non-sexual chapters, those non-sexual chapters will not be accepted to the DXEA, while the sexual chapters would be. This will not change. If this is a problem for any author, I suggest combining the non-sexual chapter with a sexual chapter, and submitting both in one form. Each time you click "submit" on the submission form, there must be sex in the body text, or it will be rejected. I hope this clarifies things. [26/07/2006 @433] Font sizes adjustedDue to popular request, I have increased font sizes slightly. [07/03/2006 @977] Story queue cleared!Believe it or not, I actually worked down the story queue and approved the dozens and dozens of stories that were waiting. (Some had been waiting almost a year! I have been lazy indeed and there is no excuse.) There are a few stories still in queue (less than half a dozen) because I need to give some deeper thought as to whether I will approve them or not, or if they will require some special treatment codewise. If you had worries about submitting because the queue was so long - well, worry no longer! The queue is now short. There is one potential problem however. I did clear the queue in a bit of a rush, and only glanced through the character entries. There *may* be the occasional mistake in the characters featured. If you notice a disconnect between characters listed for the story, and characters actually getting laid in the story, I would very much appreciate a heads-up at samy@iki.fi. I hope you enjoy the new approved stories! Showing 5 most recent news. To see the rest, click here. |
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