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  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Radio Is Back On August 27th

    Outside of the USA and Canada, you can use Skype to call in for free Really? As in you don't need to have any Skype Credit at all? I'd appreciate ...

    Aug 5, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Freedom for Storybooks!

    That's right: the point cost for new storybooks has been reduced from 500 points to zero points . So if you've been wanting to experiment with creating different kinds of ...

    Aug 4, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Radio Is Back On August 27th

    What Is YWS Radio? YWS Radio is really just a live online podcast. We do it through http://www.blogtalkradio.com, and all you have to do to listen in is point your ...

    Aug 4, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Please Help Us Catch Spam Reviews

    Spam reviews can come in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes, the reviewer simply quotes the entire work then either adds nothing or adds only a little bit. Other times, the ...

    Aug 3, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    People need to be more careful about where they get images from. One of the gifs in the "Post your gif thread" came from Roulade Unlimited, which is the infected ...

    Jul 30, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: The July 31st Day of Review! (GMT)

    July 2011 has thus far been a great month for reviewing. If it weren't for the database failures earlier this month, we probably would be well over 4,000+ reviews by ...

    Jul 29, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    Logging out problems can be caused by any number of things, and I've never been able to pin down why it happens with some members of YWS but not others. ...

    Jul 20, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime / Maintenance - July 9

    Well, as it turns out, the site has been actually slightly faster since the database change. The average page is now loading in about 2.75 seconds whereas it used to ...

    Jul 16, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    Overeasy ->> You're not the only person to report that problem, so it's not just you. Unfortunately, I have been unable to trace down what the problem could be. But, ...

    Jul 15, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime - July 12

    It seems like every time I squash one problem related to our database, another one pops up. This time around, the culprit was the query used to calculate the Recent ...

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: A quick survey

    Keep the responses going! Thank you to all who have taken the time so far. If you haven't taken the time, why the heck not? It's five questions! ;)

    Jul 12, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime / Maintenance - July 9

    Today, July 9, 2011, YWS underwent an unscheduled maintenance operation. This was a result of the database failing twice in two days. What I've done is to convert the database ...

    Jul 9, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS Unexpected Downtime - July 8

    Earlier today, the Young Writers Society crashed due to a corrupted temporary file system. In other words, there was a RAM / memory failure. I managed to fix that, but ...

    Jul 9, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: A quick survey

    Thanks everyone for the responses! Keep 'em coming :)

    Jul 8, 2011
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report A Site Bug

    Heh, you only need to report the bug once! In any case, everything should be fine now. Regarding Opera Mini, it's a very buggy browser.

    Jul 7, 2011


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