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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Beta Test: Phase Two
Hello, fellow fanfiction lovers! The staff of HPFF.com is happy to announce that we have entered the home stretch of coding and thus, new features are available for you to beta test!
Add Chapter
While Add A New Chapter has been available to Trusted Authors for several days now, we are happy to reopen submissions to all authors. Don’t get too excited though – this is still in the process of beta testing and, thus, there are limitations. Only one chapter may be submitted per author at a time and the queue will only be accepting 25 chapters at a time. This is to ensure that, if there is a bug, there are only a small number of chapters affected rather than a several hundred. Restrictions will be lifted as soon as we are certain that the software can support it. For those of you that plan on entering new submissions, please make sure to read the entire article as there is more information that will be of use to you.
Edit/Delete Stories & Chapter Rejections
The ability to edit your existing submissions is fully open at this point. Please be aware, however, that there have been changes. First, Chapter 1 is no longer the “story default.” (i.e., editing the summary in Chapter 1 will no longer change the summary that appears on your author’s page.) In future, this will be handled by a page called “Add A Story.” Currently, this page has not been written but we are looking to complete it as soon as possible.
Those of you who have submitted chapters may also notice a link that reads “Not Accepted.” Following that link will take you to a page containing a note from the staff letting you know why your chapter was rejected. Please heed our advice, make the changes and resubmit your chapter. If you do not understand your rejection reason, please contact the staff via the Trouble Tickets.
Finally, authors who have not yet reached Trusted status will find that their chapter edits do not appear immediately. This is because all edits made to validated chapters will return to the validation queue for approval. The procedure for having these edits approved is the same as regular validation.
Future Changes
As we’ve mentioned, we are still firmly in “beta” stages and not all features have been added. Some of the many changes that still need to be made are listed below and may cause a loss of functionality. Please do not report issues listed below as our coder is already aware of them. [All other reports can be done via the forums as usual.]
Add Chapter
While Add A New Chapter has been available to Trusted Authors for several days now, we are happy to reopen submissions to all authors. Don’t get too excited though – this is still in the process of beta testing and, thus, there are limitations. Only one chapter may be submitted per author at a time and the queue will only be accepting 25 chapters at a time. This is to ensure that, if there is a bug, there are only a small number of chapters affected rather than a several hundred. Restrictions will be lifted as soon as we are certain that the software can support it. For those of you that plan on entering new submissions, please make sure to read the entire article as there is more information that will be of use to you.
Edit/Delete Stories & Chapter Rejections
The ability to edit your existing submissions is fully open at this point. Please be aware, however, that there have been changes. First, Chapter 1 is no longer the “story default.” (i.e., editing the summary in Chapter 1 will no longer change the summary that appears on your author’s page.) In future, this will be handled by a page called “Add A Story.” Currently, this page has not been written but we are looking to complete it as soon as possible.
Those of you who have submitted chapters may also notice a link that reads “Not Accepted.” Following that link will take you to a page containing a note from the staff letting you know why your chapter was rejected. Please heed our advice, make the changes and resubmit your chapter. If you do not understand your rejection reason, please contact the staff via the Trouble Tickets.
Finally, authors who have not yet reached Trusted status will find that their chapter edits do not appear immediately. This is because all edits made to validated chapters will return to the validation queue for approval. The procedure for having these edits approved is the same as regular validation.
Future Changes
As we’ve mentioned, we are still firmly in “beta” stages and not all features have been added. Some of the many changes that still need to be made are listed below and may cause a loss of functionality. Please do not report issues listed below as our coder is already aware of them. [All other reports can be done via the forums as usual.]
- Favorite Stories & Authors Re-Enabled
- Add New Story/Edit Story Enabled
- Review Counts on Author Pages Corrected
- Author Search Added
- Add Story Counts Next to Ship/Genre/etc... on Find A Story
- Recompute Incorrect Word Counts Throughout Archive
- All Skins Updated w/New Links
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It all lists on the same page - but new submissions are listed on the top and there is a seperate area on the bottom for edited chapters. There is a difference between them as far as the system is concerned but we access them in the same place :)
Eeek, I must really be losing it. But after reading this post several times I still am wondering if I'm supposed to be able to delete my stories, as a I plan to either trash or totally rewrite them?
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