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Honestly its likely just bots scraping the SFW section of the website since its the only part of the website they can reach as guests. Either to repost content on scam websites, or to feed into their LLMs to train the AI on the writing.
I assume it'll probably die down once they run through...
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but just wanted to bring something to mod attention while also leaving room for others to tell me I'm being dumb.
At the time of this posting, QQ has 20,652 guests showing under Members Online:
Considering that most of the website is locked...
Crazy to think that 11 years ago I signed up to this site as Member #1638
And now here we are, all these years later, with over 130,000 members.
Appreciate our current mods and admins with all my heart and those who join them off of this have my gratitude as well!
Hey, sorry if this is the wrong place for this, and also might not be anything anyone can do to help me on this end with this issue, but figured I'd at least ask to see if there's something obvious I'm missing.
Basically, I got a new phone today. It's about a quarter to half an inch longer than...
In case it helps, for some reason I'm not having issues whatsoever on my Ad Blocker Mobile Browser. But I am on Firefox on my computer.
Not really sure why but thought I'd throw that data point out there in case its a clue in any way to what's causing the issue.
Huh gotcha, so basically the change over added that requirement for PMs too even though they somehow had access before. I assume because it thinks they're New Users again.
I'll pass this on to them!
Hey so I've now had two different people I've had long running Conversations/PMs with from the old website contact me on another website to let me know that they can no longer message me on QQ. Apparently the text box in our Conversation/PM is just completely gone for them.
The common...
So I love that threads now show the first three tags when you go to the creative writing forums.
I don't love that the tags are always sorted alphabetically and seemingly can't be sorted in any other way.
Feels kind of bad tbh. Any fix for that, or are we stuck with it?
Btw, for those who hate all three of the Styles currently available and are on Google Chrome, download the Dark Reader Extension and use it in conjunction with Xenforo Default.
This is what it looks like:
Definitely the best atm imo.
Slight update: I got an email alert for a PM early this morning just six hours ago. But when I responded to it and then got a message back, it didn't send me an email alert.
Really not sure why its so 50/50 and only working some of the time.
I too have received an email alert for every PM I've gotten in the past two days now, so fingers crossed that it might be fixed and was just a byproduct of the server transfer!
I started getting emails for Conversation Messages again as of just under 2 hours ago!
EDIT: Actually, just realized I got emails two hours ago, and then didn't get emails for Conversation Messages I got 50 minutes ago.
Not sure why its so off-and-on again.
Yeah... I did not receive an email alert for a Conversation Message I got at 7:04 AM this morning (approximately 2 hrs and 38 minutes ago from the time of this post)
So it seems email alerts are broken again since the server transfer, at least for some of us?