[The Founder]

The private message system has been upgraded.

1. Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause replies to go to admins instead of the intended recipient when replying outside of a story.

2. Added pagination to message listing

3. Corrected select all/none which wasn't working properly. 

4. Changed image buttons to actual buttons. Which will now comply with the custom theme styles for input buttons.

5. Refactored code to comply with new security protocols.

[The Founder]

Fixed a bug where the current character would change when new characters where created and added to the story.

Fixed the bug where such an event could cause you to loose your PA privileges. Now if any of your characters is a PA you will have PA privileges regardless your current character. 

[The Founder]

Site Update: Feature Request
Date: 7/39/08

I returned the remember me feature so that you won't have to manually log in all the time. There is a difference though. I store the data heavily encrypted and with enough information about your network location and client that if you log on from a different location (from a Starbucks for example) you will have to re-enter your password again since I want to insure you haven't been the victim of cookie theft.

If you only use your computer from one location and your network address is fairly stable this will seem to be same as the previous system.

[The Founder]

Date: 7/29/08

• Removed the link to "Join!" storycrafter for those who are already members.
• Added Captcha Image Code function into registration page to eliminate the spammer registrants.

[The Founder]

Date: 7/30/08
Update Type: Feature Request

Now when composing a message whilst inside a story the StoryCrafter of that story will be selected by default.

[The Founder]

Several improvements have been made to the custom theme capability including:

1.) The ability to add custom banner graphics or column graphics to every page of the story.
2.) The ability to disable individual elements from your story like the cast message board, member panel, banner ads, and more.
3.) The ability to reposition individual elements on the screen like all of the above for example.
4.) The ability to theme the story acts independently from the story home page.

And more. Check the latest custom theme for examples of how to take advantage of these new capabilities.

[The Founder]

I am adding a new, StoryCrafter Publish, for lack of a better word. It is still in it's early testing stages and the documentation is still under development.

SC Publish allows you to organize, download and share your stories in kindle-conversion-compatible Abobe pdf format.

Using it is very simple. First click on the publish controls and create a publication, name it what you like. Then define your chapter divisions. Once you have defined one or more chapters you can add your story's acts to those chapters. The order you create and/or add your acts or chapters to your publications determines what order they will be displayed in your final document.

Once you are ready to publish click the "Generate" link on the row where your publication is listed and it will generate your publication's pdf. You can download your pdf by clicking on the pdf icon next to your publication.

For large publications it will take some time to generate, be patient. If you click the link more than once you will only delay the generation process.

That's it. The publication system will format your story to be book-readable (or as close as I can get with what you used in your original post), add a table of contents and title page, and do a few other nifty things you will have to figure out for yourself.

Here is a publication of one of the stories I ran.

[Shay]

Thank you so much for this.   

Having an easy means to backup and port these stories that many of us invest so much time, energy and love into is great!!!   

[The Founder]

NP.

Also if you include regularly include OOC comments in your post but DON'T want them in your publications then while writing your comment select your comment and choose the new OOC style from the editor's style drop down box. These comments will then be stripped out in the publication process.

[The Founder]

Changed our captcha system to Mollom because of the excessive errors people were getting trying to join. Sometimes the had to try 15 times or more before they got the right code.

[Shanna]

I'm still waiting for that remote tazerGreat stuff, Founder!