As you would have seen in the error message during the downtime, we had to do a critical security update. While this security update was in progress I also discovered that some pieces of shit from the a certain writing community that is popular in April, July, and November had been stalking us and making false claims about us. Due to the staff’s shitty behavior of suspending my account and a friend whose only mistake was warning them that I was planning to contact their hosting team about them knowingly allowing illegal behavior of their participants and literally said NOTHING to us about it ..read more

So… I’m going to get bitched at by the person who I’m asking this for because they don’t want to ask for a help, but I’m posting this anyway. A member emailed me early this morning that their family is in a financial bind. They lost their job and don’t have enough money for their utilities and food this month. Now, normally I wouldn’t ask, but this person has personally bailed these forums out many times in the past 10 years so what I’m asking you guys for is to help us return the favor this one time All donations received by me between 2023-01-15T18:00:00Z UTC and 2023-01-31T18:00:00Z UTC wil ..read more

I made a few updates that may help the activity levels around here, but with a catch. It’s now much easier for people to post because the system won’t moderate users by default now because new users are now set to Trust Level 1 on registration and Trust Level 0 is now used only for enforcing the moderated posting on problem users. This means that you will need to be more proactive in the future and flag spam posts when you see them. If you’re not sure if it qualifies as spam or is just something that should have been posted in Links, Classifieds, and Reviews instead go ahead and flag it so tha ..read more

Hey, folks. You probably saw some unplanned downtime earlier today. I had to install a critical update that couldn’t wait until the next maintenance window. A side-effect of this update is that it replaced the both the hamburger (three lines) and avatar menu interfaces. They… take some getting used to and I can force it back to the original menus but I am leaving them in the current form because Discourse will eventually force them to be enabled. Now, that said, I have a question for all of you. On the desktop version, the hamburger menu has two potential layouts, I chose the version that beha ..read more

Starting today we are officially sunsetting the abdlstoryforum.info domain. It will expire in 2024 and we will not be renewing. Please make sure your bookmarks are using the current domain name instead. We are currently in the process of updating the email addresses used by external services to use the new domain. Unless you have been notified otherwise by email the change will not affect those of you who currently have recurring donations configured via Patreon or PayPal. The few of you whose recurring donations are setup via the old Stripe integration will be receiving an email from Stripe w ..read more

We are currently investigating an attempt to download the entire userlist. Until this is finished there will be no one except myself with admin access at @HatsuneMiku request. I would strongly recommend changing your passwords as a precaution although there is no way they could have been accessed. 10 posts - 8 participants Read full topic ..read more

So, just a heads up, but as I mentioned in the Story Contest Extension thread, we’ll be migrating to a new domain soon. The current domain will continue to work until at least February of 2023, it will simply redirect to the new domain. There will be a few hours of down time during the migration to the new domain as we will also be migrating to a new hosting provider at the same time. In fact this is the main reason we’re migrating to the new domain. It will allow us to do a mostly seamless switch between hosts. Here’s the timeline for this migration: The DNS records for abdlstoryforum.info ..read more

For guest users, there is only the Latest tab, which always shows the most recent posts from all the categories that are visible to a user. For guests this effectively means the story sections at this point in time, for users with accounts, this varies depending on which groups you are a member of and which categories and/or tags you have muted. The Unseen tab is only available to logged in users and is essentially a filtered view of Latest that only shows topics that have had new posts since your account was created. Unread (and New) are also only available to logged in users and are further ..read more

We don’t allow the arbitrary creation of new tags as it was abused to harass users in the past. As such new tags can only be created by moderators or admins. See the topic below for more information on this and how to get the tags created and added to your story. https://d.abdlstories.club/t/tag-requests/14114 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

So, first let me say I’m surprised at how many people emailed me about this. Apparently a lot more of you were using this than I realized. Sadly, Facebook forced me to remove it because they disagree with our account removal policy. Please understand that I did fight with Facebook support for days trying to get them to understand why we have the policy we do and that as we don’t actually use any information from Facebook beyond it setting the initial email address, and avatar there was no conflict with their policies. Now the system would suggest a username and full name based on your Facebook ..read more