Irked a Bit and Some Site Pimping

[amberfocus]

I'm really trying my best not to be frustrated with Teaspoon.  Two days with nothing posted, nothing to read there, and then boom today they've posted 6 pages worth of stuff.  Very hard to take the time to go through all of that in one go and also, one of my stories that I'd been waiting on for a while to have come up, is of course, five pages back.  So I hope people actually get the chance to see it.  Mostly I've given up caring about it for myself, but it's for my readers there that I feel bad.  I hope we don't see another two day freeze on postings as I just sent in ch. 12 of Hunger Moon and I know I've got people waiting for it there who don't come to LJ and they've emailed me asking for when the next one is coming.  Same with Moments in Darkness of which Devastate ch. 3 did finally post.

Kate Carter has started a new website a couple months back that archives fic and I think I'm going to start putting stuff up there, too.  Maybe some of the others of you who are so frustrated with the changes as well might want to have a go there.  She has an adult story board as well as a regular one.  I think it's all New Who, but I'm not sure.  It's called New Whovian, so I'm assuming.  Haven't seen anything classic Whoish there yet, but it's not going too fast just yet.  Anyway, the link if you're interested is this:  http://newwhovian.proboards89.com/  I've seen a lot of frustrated people on my f-list and around other places who are annoyed, so maybe this'll be a new outlet.  Worth a go, I suppose.  It seems author friendly and Kate's sensible so I don't think there'll be the same kind of issues going on there ever.

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[sisterofkarn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this whole thing with Teaspoon is really annoying.
Worse, many authors I've been looking for new chpters from do have LJ accounts, but have them completely f-locked now, so I can't even go to their journals for the new chapters... assuming they're being written.
:(

Of course, so many of the changes are a direct result of Teaspoon's almost exponential growth over the last few years. I've helped to admin a large forum before, and it's not easy.

Still, having said that, if they are having trouble getting through submissions for approval, then they should rethink that change. I know that this was one of the very reasons the old Mod group never chose to implement such a rule, they anticipated this very thing. So should have the new Mod group. Unless they're hoping to pare down the user and readership of the page and are doing this knowing it would happen. That would be sad.
Not surprising, though. Bills for the site will be lower if they don't need as big a server with as much bandwidth.

Thanks so much for the link to the New Whovian. I've book-marked and will definitely check it out. I hope it does very well!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.