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New Layout and Fic Tracking
Hello everyone!

As you may have noticed, we have a new default layout. We want to thank Lynn (buyyouadrank) for designing the beautiful graphic, and we hope that you all will like this change. If you liked the old layout (jelly) better, you can change jelly to your default skin by going into Account Info and then Edit Preferences. :)

Also, you can switch between our burnt, jelly, and work layouts by using the drop down menu on the left side of the main page, under the log-in information.

On a different note, we have now turned off story update notification, and have added a Fic Tracking system to the website. If you go into Recent, you will see that by every story, there is an option to track it. You only have to select Track this Story to put fanfic on your tracked stories list. You can view your tracked fanfics in the "Browse By" menu under "Tracked Stories", or by clicking it underneath the log-in information on the right hand side of the main page.

As an additional bonus, there is now a Most Tracked Story in the Top Tens. At the moment, we do not think that you can see how is tracking your stories, but we are working on figuring out how to put this into your account info. :)

Please continue to favorite stories and authors that you consider to be your personal favorites. If you have stories in your favorites right now that are only in there for means of being notified when it updates, please consider removing it from your favorites and tracking it instead. You will no longer be receiving email updates for your favorite fanfics. So, if you want to know when your favorite stories update, you should visit your Tracked Stories page every day to check. It will tell you the date of when you last read the story, so you'll know if you've missed an update!

We're sorry if this isn't as convenient as the email notification system, but our server just couldn't handle the weight.

This does not mean that you'll stop receiving email alerts when you get new reviews or review responses. :)


Please let us know any problems you have with this system, and if you are enjoying the new layout and fic tracking system, please let us know! It's always good to hear positive feedback for what we're doing. :)

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

EDIT: We realized, after turning email notifications off, that while you can track stories with our new system, you can't track authors. We, personally, love being notified when our favorite authors update but by turning notifications off, we will no longer have this option. We turned email updates back on for the time being until we can figure out how to make it so you only get notified when your favorite authors update.

PLEASE DO NOT favorite something if you only mean to track it, and remove favorites that are not really your favorites, but you meant to track. If you do this, it will lighten our server load, and we can keep email updates.

Thank you!

- cynical_terror & undrockroll on 03/01/09 10:01 pm
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- spilled milk on 03/01/09 10:03 pm
Is there a way to track an author or we have to keep that in favorites?
- RetteLeana on 03/01/09 10:06 pm
Thanks for all the work you do with this page :)
- Luttie on 03/01/09 10:14 pm
you can favorite anything you want... there isn't a way to track an author, though. just stories. and there aren't any email notifications anymore, so there's not much point in tracking an author. just their stories. :)
- undrockroll on 03/01/09 10:14 pm
omg I love this new layout; it so...ummm improved -Lol!! :)
great job 'buyyuoadrank'
- queenmadness on 03/01/09 10:44 pm
Took me awhile to realize that I couldn't see the new layout because I still had it at Jelly. *face palm* Anyway, I love it! :) Lynn's graphics are always so amazing.
- eloquenceisdead on 03/01/09 10:51 pm
i LOVE the new layout.
everything that buyyouadrank makes is just amazing. :)
i don't know if it's just me, but the coding seems to make everything a little too bright. :S
but other then that, it's amazing!
- ilovetomkaulitzzz on 03/01/09 11:14 pm
ahhh, i love the new graphic. :D
- izzap on 03/02/09 12:16 am
**At the moment, we do not think that you can see how is tracking your stories, but we are working on figuring out how to put this into your account info. :)**

I dont think an author should be able to see WHO is tracking their stories, maybe just HOW MANY, but NOT WHO.

isnt that a little bit invasion of privacy? I mean its one thing if you leave feedback and the writer sees your screenname, but otherwise, this should not happen.
- on 03/02/09 01:18 am
Don't worry too much about it diddlemouse, we most likely won't even be able to let authors know how many people are tracking their stories, let alone who. Efiction is insanely difficult to mod.
- cynical_terror on 03/02/09 01:35 am
I actually would like to be able to see who's tracking my stories, if at all possible. I'm thinking of it as a replacement for favorites and I liked seeing who favorited what there.
- on 03/02/09 03:01 am
Like I said, efiction is almost unmoddable, so if we can't see who is tracking now, odds are there's no way we can change it.
- cynical_terror on 03/02/09 03:15 am
If I'm tracking very many fics... when I go on the list will I easily be able to see which ones that has been updated? Or do I have to remember the amount of chapters it had the last time I read it?
- BrokenMirror on 03/02/09 06:58 am
Wow!the new option is awesome!thank you guys for everything.I really have no idea how you deal with this stuff everyday.I'd be dead by now XD.So thank you.I'm not an author here(and probably will never be in english),but i'm an avid reader,and the fic tracking thing is THE tool i needed,because sometimes i forget the titles of the story i wanted to read that i didn't feel the need to favorite.
- eiri on 03/02/09 07:02 am
One question: If I remove all the stories from my favs that I only want to track, I will keep notifications from the stories that are really meant to be in my favs or do I need to add those to my tracking list too?

Btw, I love the new layout
- StrawberrySky on 03/02/09 11:33 am
Awesome! ^_^

Fic tracking (Y) Good thing I made a list of what to track! ^_^

And the new layout is awesome! Go buyyouadrank! (Y) Great job guys ^_^
- Bekah on 03/02/09 01:19 pm
Brokenmirror: It will say when the last date was when you read it. If you compare that date with the update date of the story, you will know if you missed a chapter or not. Check out the stories in your tracking list to see what I mean!

Strawberrysky: Only add stories to your tracking list that you want to "track". If there's a story you want to track, but is also a "favorite" fic of yours, feel free to add that story to your favorites as well. You can both "track" and "favorite" stories. The tracker is just to help you keep track of stories and when they updated, while the favorites is just a list of your favorite stories. So, you can have a favorite story that you want to track.
- undrockroll on 03/02/09 03:01 pm
I really like the new layout! :D
- schlampe on 03/02/09 04:13 pm
Love the new layout!
- sheerac50 on 03/02/09 04:26 pm
nice layout and lovely tracking system!
- on 03/02/09 05:29 pm