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February 23rd, 2010 -- We will be performing extensive upgrades to FictionPress.com over the next two weeks and will bring the site in parity
in features and support with its sister site at FanFiction.Net.
March 6th, 2009 -- Reader Traffic feature has been extended to both forums and communities. Respective administrators can login and visit the traffic area for access to these two new features. Forum/Community traffic data collection started in February of 2009. Please note we have updated the website Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Translations of the two documents in both Spanish and German have been provided with French versions forthcoming. We have resolved an issue which affected Reader Traffic access and collection on the first day of every new month and a problem which caused timed-out errors for large file uploads in the Document Manager. December 19th, 2008 -- A discrepancy between the actual number of Community subscribers and the value displayed has been fixed. December 18th, 2008 -- We like to wish everyone a wonderful passage through the holidays and great aspirations for the new year ahead. The search engine has just been upgraded. Interface has been streamlined and users now can search for Forums and Communities. We encourage Forum and Community administrators to update their forum/community summary/description to include as much detail as possible to be more search friendly. Profile images/avatars are now displayed at a larger size of 150x150 pixels. To correct blurry images please re-upload your profile avatar in the login area. Forum moderators now have the ability to ban/block a user within a specific forum for a period ranging from days to perpetual. Moderators now have the options to delete a single post by an user, all posts by the user within the topic, or all posts by the user within the forum. We have updated to our post-login/administrative interface. This new design is more browser friendly and now requires only a single mouse click to access all features. We will be prompting some members to update their passwords after login. Many users are still using weak passwords which are too short or are too closely associated with their email address or pen name. On a side note, the review button at the bottom of story pages has been relocated to make it more prominent/visible to readers. October 27th, 2008 -- Important Notice: Due to a scheduled system upgrade, the login area and associated features, including reviewing and story upload/submission, will be disabled from 11PM to approximately 3AM tonight Pacific (PST) time. Reviews received today will not show up until tomorrow. October 20th, 2008 -- Improvements to the author search engine will now provide more accurate search results and previously ineffective search phrases for authors will now correctly return matched records. October 18th, 2008 -- Whole story backup feature has been added to make it easier for authors to save an entire story with all chapters as one file for archival purposes. Authors can access the new feature via the story edit/property page. Reader Traffic has been extended to collect and display web traffic for member's profile page. We have improved our anti-spam/flood protection for both anonymous and signed reviews. October 16th, 2008 -- Administrative pages for alerts (authors, c2/community, stories) and favorites (authors, stories) have been updated to make them much easier to manage. A new "Date Added" time-stamp has been added for each section displaying the date the entry was added. Existing entries added prior to this update will display all zeros (00-00-0000) as the date. Displayed entries within each section are now sortable. Search engine has been updated to return results for some keywords that previously did not return any. September 30th, 2008 PM -- We introduced a small feature a while back where, when applicable, a small label and country flag in your site's public profile page is displayed to represent your approximate location. Due to a flaw, we had to reset all privacy settings for this feature. To once again disable this feature, please login and toggle "display location" under account settings. September 30th, 2008 AM -- We have resolved an issue where tons of alert emails/notifications including PMs were severely backlogged. All the pending notifications have been delivered as of this notice. We are putting new monitoring procedures into effect so this issue does not reoccur in the future. September 29th, 2008 -- We have fixed an issue where Beta Readers feature was accidentally disabled in our last upgrade. September 28th, 2008 -- The search feature received a much needed upgrade as we have doubled the number of servers dedicated to search processing. Please note we will continue with further search upgrades for the next few days. Reader Traffic improvements since the last update:
July 28th, 2008 -- We are introducing an exciting new feature designed specifically for writers: Reader Traffic. Reader Traffic is an evolutionary upgrade of the existing story/chapter stats feature. Before, we only collected a single level cumulative stats for stories and chapters: hits. With Reader Traffic, we are now tracking stats at 3 levels, all stories (cumulative), story specific, and chapter specific. At each level, we are also tracking 2 types of stats: hits and visitors. Hits measure the number of times a browser/reader has accessed a story/chapter. Visitors measure the number of unique hits, browsers/readers from unique IP addresses, over a 24 hour period. Further more, we are also breaking down the stats at each level by: Day of Month, and Country of hit/visitor. Reader Traffic began gathering data on July 28th so there are no data prior to the time. The old stats page will remain as it is until we figure out a way to unify both features. June 9th, 2008 -- We have improved the overall browsing experience by reducing the time for pages to load. Readers/Writers in countries with slow connections to the United States will benefit the most from this latest site upgrade when AdBlocker is enabled. April 2nd, 2008 -- Full recap all changes since last update.
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