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50 minutes ago, Sapphire_Skies said:

Quick question, are the stories of the month results announced anywhere?

The last ones have been announced in the bulletin!

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Ooh, thanks! It took me a while to find them in there, apologies.

Is there any chance of everyone being able to view the results of polls, rather than only those who voted in them? Going back to my previous post on here, it would have been nice to see how I did even though I didn't participate as I was having a break from writing at that time. I'm not sure if that's possible with the set-up of the forum. 

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you can view the results of a poll if you either vote or forfeit your vote (by hitting view results) before the deadline of the poll. if you haven't done either, its unfortunately not possible to view those results later on. because we are not planning on changing the settings of how the voting works itself (with which i mean, we aren't planning on changing the settings back so you can see the results without forfeiting your vote), it's unfortunately also impossible to view the results if you haven't voted/forfeited your vote, because that's just how the set-up of the forum works.

 

i hope this makes sense!

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Quick question.  Is there going to be a July Forum Challenge?  If so, I need to hustle to find and nominate a story for Story of the Month before nominations close.

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it'll be up hopefully somewhere this week! unforseen circumstances happened which has delayed it a bit, but it is coming soon!

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Uh oh!  We have a spam topic, "Buy brand name Cialis", in our Writers Nest this morning!  Bummer!

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Hi.  I decided to join the FFT Discord and I downloaded the app.  It asks me to supply the link for my invite .  Is there a way for me to find the code for the invite to the FFT Discord group?  Thanks.

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There's a link at the top of the forum (the FFT Discord one) ^_^

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Sooo somehow I got booted out of the archives and since I can never remember the litany of passwords I have to keep for everything, I tried to do a password recovery thing and I keep getting a "please contact your administrator," type of message. I even clicked the link to fill out the form, and received the same message. 

Any help would be much appreciated!

💖 Courtney

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I'm sure this is something that's been answered before, and I'm even more sure that the solution is ridiculously simple, but I have failed in my every effort to mark stories as favorites or to follow them or whatever it is one is supposed to to do so that it isn't necessary to hunt for a partially read one. Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong, aside from living on the wrong century of course.

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Can you tell us exactly what you did? Because if you go to a certain story, you should be able to hit 'add story to favorites' from the story shell (that is to say, from the place in the story where you can access all chapters, if that makes sense? (I just wokr up so forgive me if it doesnt)). From there you should also be able to add it to your reading list which i think is equivalent to following them, but I'm not entirely sure about that because I never use that feature. I just tried to do both and it worked for me, so I'm not entirely sure where it's going wrong for you. You can also PM me with explanations of how you do it, if that's better for you!

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Not a staffer, so not my place to reply... :ninjavanish:

I just wanted to point out that the "reading list" feature seems to be working only with the default ("fire") skin, I normally use "Night sky" and I don't see the link on the stories' shells. Had to switch to "fire" to add stories to my reading list. The "favourite" feature should work fine, though.

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5 hours ago, Ineke said:

Can you tell us exactly what you did? Because if you go to a certain story, you should be able to hit 'add story to favorites' from the story shell (that is to say, from the place in the story where you can access all chapters, if that makes sense? (I just wokr up so forgive me if it doesnt)). From there you should also be able to add it to your reading list which i think is equivalent to following them, but I'm not entirely sure about that because I never use that feature. I just tried to do both and it worked for me, so I'm not entirely sure where it's going wrong for you. You can also PM me with explanations of how you do it, if that's better for you!

That is pretty much what I've tried to do, but nothing sticks. I just be missing a step somewhere.

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Do you know if there is going to be a November Forum challenge this month?

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There is! It is coming soon, hopefully one of these days, but real life got in the way a bit, hence it being delayed!

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Look who's back again!  I'm puzzled as I attempt to upload my first little story - I've filled in the form and managed to get the file into the proper format, but when I hit the "preview" button, in addition to all the stuff I put in there I found a list of series that don't belong to me and have no relation to my little story.  I haven't been able to find anything on the form screen that allows me to edit the series (I'm guessing that's because I don't have any series to edit), so if someone can please tell me what I need to do to clear this text from the cover screen I'd be mighty grateful.

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Yet another question.  I've recently posted my first story and it's a bit of a mess - it looks to me like I've found another rookie mistake that's corrupted the file in some way, so instead of spaces between words there's an unusual character and I can't figure out what I did or how to correct the problem.  Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this, please?  Thanks.

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14 hours ago, Goatspeed said:

Yet another question.  I've recently posted my first story and it's a bit of a mess - it looks to me like I've found another rookie mistake that's corrupted the file in some way, so instead of spaces between words there's an unusual character and I can't figure out what I did or how to correct the problem.  Can someone tell me what I can do to fix this, please?  Thanks.

from what i can see, the weird characters are like the ' or " you use when starting a sentence. it seems to be a symbol that's not recognised. what exactly did you use? and, another question, how did you put the information in there? did you copy paste from word, or do you write in something else?

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3 minutes ago, Ineke said:

from what i can see, the weird characters are like the ' or " you use when starting a sentence. it seems to be a symbol that's not recognised. what exactly did you use? and, another question, how did you put the information in there? did you copy paste from word, or do you write in something else?

Unless the sentence begins with dialogue, it just starts with a capital letter.  If it's dialogue, then it starts with ".  The character I see looks like a diamond shape with a question mark in the middle (an odd description, I know, but the best I can manage). I compose with MS Word, but when I tried to upload I got a message that the .docx file wasn't recognized and that I needed to upload a plain text file, so I converted the Word file by using Word's "save as" function to create a .txt file and uploaded that.  Is there a way to upload the original Word file?

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