I have not been able to post or sort anything out yet regarding the site due to the fact that I have been very busy with my daughter, she has been a bit unwell and I have been worried, so sorry about that.
Regarding the site closure, I am going to try to give the site to someone else ( Nicole X ) Melissa has volunteered with the help of her husband to transfer the database, we are not sure yet how to do it all, but we will try.
I will let you know when we have made some progress :)
There is no other way to put it, I am so sorry, but I simply can not maintain the site anymore. It should be running by itself but the huge amount of spam ( a lot that you do not notice as a user but affects the site all the same) is not manageable anymore, with all the work I have as a new mum.
I understand that for writers and readers , this might seem extreme, but I can not allow anymore so many pornographic links and more being added to the net under the name of a site that I own. As I mentioned before I can not prevent this from happening as the script used is not good enough and I do not know how to improve it.
Whatever happens, I am going to give a month notice to all members to simply collect any info, reviews, stories ... they wish to keep.
The only way I can think of saving the actual archive would be if someone was willing to take over the site, but that would involve a MYSQL database transfer and maybe a domain name transfer, which again, I do not know how to do, and have very little time to find out. However, if someone, knows, and is willing to do the hard work, then I will give away the site to that person. I am hosted by oneandone.co.uk, in case this helps.
The problems we were having with the site have been more or less sorted, this means that you can post and review again.
I have turned back on the anonymous review function as apparently, after checking the database this morning, whether it's on or off the spam is still coming. This is a huge problem though as this means that I have no way of stopping it. The only thing I will be able to do is keep an eye on it, and delete thousands of reviews every month. I have now found a way to entirely separate normal reviews from spam within the database, so from now on , normal reviews will not be deleted.
I will try to look into upgrading the archive to a better version, ( from 1.1 to 3 ) but I can not promise it will happen soon as I am going to give birth to a baby girl in a few weeks, so as you can imagine my time will be limited, on the internet anyway.
If there are problems with the site don't hesitate to email, and I'll try to fix it. I am not checking it everyday, so I might not be aware of new issues.
I finally cleared the database from all the spam!!
I would like to wish you all a lovely Christmas with loads of wonderful kate and Sawyer stories.
After quickly browsing the music videos category, I noticed some links are not working at all , or not well enough. I have already deleted one link. I would really appreciate if you commented or emailed me, if you noticed such dead links, as we should not be listing them. So don't hesitate to inform me, it would be very helpful :)
A new category has been created : Multi season - for stories covering at least two seasons or more!
