Post by Chris on Aug 12, 2009 20:03:40 GMT
OK This isn't a Decget.com announcement, but I thought it was useful so I have posted it over here.
The long and short of this announcement is:
We have a new fiction archive and it's based at: www.neighboursfans.com/fic/
If you're an author or a reader we'd love you to sign up and 1) post up your stories and/or 2) post up your comments / choose which stories are your favourites.
There's a further explanation as to why we're doing this below, plus a bit more detail.
As most of you probably know, I'm working on pruning a lot of the site to make our upcoming upgrade easier. One of the areas that we've ummed and ahhed about is the fan fiction area. It's a great little archive of 4 years now, and it'd be a shame to lose the stories there. I can think of a few prolific writers on here who lost their stories when we lost the 2002-2005 archive (I was one of them ) and I wouldn't like to see that happen again.
However, the fic area is rather large and pruning it down would help our upgrade immensely.
BUT we had a rather marvellous suggestion a while ago, and I've now put this into action. You can see the result and sign up at - www.neighboursfans.com/fic/
It's fairly barebones at the moment and I'll put some clear instructions up later, but it's fairly easy to navigate once you get used to it.
One of the biggest powers of the site is the fact that you can search by character, so for example, here's all of the stories with Susan in - so you should be able to quickly work out which stories suit you. You can also search by author, so this is all of the stories posted by Carly - and you can read all of the reviews that each person has made, or the stories that they've deemed their favourites.
You can also see - before you start reading - how long a story is, so you have an idea of how long it'll take you to read.
So, we'd very much appreciate it if you're an author if you joined up to the site and submitted your stories because we will be wiping the fan fiction section in a couple of weeks.
If you're a reader, it'd be great if you joined up too and posted some comments onto the stories - or rated them (you can like or dislike a story) or added them to your 'favourites'.
Cheers for reading - any comments, questions etc are welcome as always...just reply to this thread.
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Sal,
Management :: NeighboursFans.com :: NeighboursEpisodes.com
HANNAH: Hey no, that's a point. Ok, imagine you guys did get married - would we move in together?
DEBBIE: I'll give you away!
PHILIP: Just stop all of you!
PLEASE bring back Philip Martin.
We have a new fiction archive and it's based at: www.neighboursfans.com/fic/
If you're an author or a reader we'd love you to sign up and 1) post up your stories and/or 2) post up your comments / choose which stories are your favourites.
There's a further explanation as to why we're doing this below, plus a bit more detail.
As most of you probably know, I'm working on pruning a lot of the site to make our upcoming upgrade easier. One of the areas that we've ummed and ahhed about is the fan fiction area. It's a great little archive of 4 years now, and it'd be a shame to lose the stories there. I can think of a few prolific writers on here who lost their stories when we lost the 2002-2005 archive (I was one of them ) and I wouldn't like to see that happen again.
However, the fic area is rather large and pruning it down would help our upgrade immensely.
QUOTE (Caterina @ Jun 28 2009, 14:34)
I've been going through all of the Standalones and Completed fics, looking for he older Stax fics that I loved. It's taking me ages, and I do have a suggestion, but it may be impossible to set up and people may not agree.
I was wonderingif we could somehow have a 'library' of fics, with whole stories with the comments taken out so that you get to read them all in one go? I'm not sure if it could go as a separate thread, or if it wuld take up a lot of space or whatever it is, and indeed if it would be possible to do (seeing as I do like reading the comments that people made about the stories as well - it may be that there are two threads, one with the comments and one with just the stories?)
I've been going through all of the Standalones and Completed fics, looking for he older Stax fics that I loved. It's taking me ages, and I do have a suggestion, but it may be impossible to set up and people may not agree.
I was wonderingif we could somehow have a 'library' of fics, with whole stories with the comments taken out so that you get to read them all in one go? I'm not sure if it could go as a separate thread, or if it wuld take up a lot of space or whatever it is, and indeed if it would be possible to do (seeing as I do like reading the comments that people made about the stories as well - it may be that there are two threads, one with the comments and one with just the stories?)
BUT we had a rather marvellous suggestion a while ago, and I've now put this into action. You can see the result and sign up at - www.neighboursfans.com/fic/
It's fairly barebones at the moment and I'll put some clear instructions up later, but it's fairly easy to navigate once you get used to it.
One of the biggest powers of the site is the fact that you can search by character, so for example, here's all of the stories with Susan in - so you should be able to quickly work out which stories suit you. You can also search by author, so this is all of the stories posted by Carly - and you can read all of the reviews that each person has made, or the stories that they've deemed their favourites.
You can also see - before you start reading - how long a story is, so you have an idea of how long it'll take you to read.
So, we'd very much appreciate it if you're an author if you joined up to the site and submitted your stories because we will be wiping the fan fiction section in a couple of weeks.
If you're a reader, it'd be great if you joined up too and posted some comments onto the stories - or rated them (you can like or dislike a story) or added them to your 'favourites'.
Cheers for reading - any comments, questions etc are welcome as always...just reply to this thread.
--------------------
Sal,
Management :: NeighboursFans.com :: NeighboursEpisodes.com
HANNAH: Hey no, that's a point. Ok, imagine you guys did get married - would we move in together?
DEBBIE: I'll give you away!
PHILIP: Just stop all of you!
PLEASE bring back Philip Martin.