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liz_marcs

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Oct 19, 2006 10:24

It's now official. mara_sho has invited me on board to be one of the mods for I Need a Parrot, the XanderZone for the BtVS Writers' Guild.

I'll be joining othercat in wielding dictatorial god-like mod power to approve or reject stories for inclusion in the archive ( Read more... )

fanfiction: pimp, fanfiction: general, character: xander, fanfiction: admin

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whiskyinmind October 19 2006, 14:40:33 UTC

**huggles you**

Have I mentioned just how much I love you? Have I?

liz_marcs October 19 2006, 14:44:04 UTC

I spent a few hours playing with the new interface from eFiction and I was suprised how much easier it was to use than the old one.

If you want, I can throw this over to the whendonverse_nb to remind people the site is up. I just found out about the syndicated feed when I was over there noodling around last night. I'm very excited about the syndicated feed, as you can see. :-)

whiskyinmind October 19 2006, 15:09:50 UTC

The code's been cleaned up a lot as well so that from a set-up point of view it's a doddle to load and run from behind the scenes. (Plus, there's a beta version of 3.0 on the go right now which looks even better - once it comes out of beta testing I'll be upgrading INAP).

And I keep forgetting about the noticeboard!

liz_marcs October 19 2006, 15:14:00 UTC

I can throw it over there. As it turns out, there's a few people who didn't know about the syndicated feed, there's some confusion on how it's different from the LJ newsgroup (I edited the post to explain), and one person didn't even know the site was back.

Maybe we could do an all-out reminder push on several BtVS communities? Some of them will take "ads" provided they are on-topic. And the syndicated feed could be your "news hook" for reposting information about the site and the LJ group.

Ummmm, just ignore me. I had on a PR person's hat there for a second. I don't know where that came from.

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liz_marcs October 19 2006, 14:46:15 UTC

It has both an lj community at i_need_a_parrot and the Website itself has a syndicated feed for updates at ineedaparrot. They're related in that they're both owned by mara_sho, but they're separate in that one's strictly LJ and the other is strictly the Website. One appears on one is not going to appear on the other.

draconin October 20 2006, 03:14:54 UTC

Why have it so that what appears on one does not on the other? My understanding of INAP is that it is (amongst other things) an archive: don't you therefore want everything appearing in it? Things that get posted to the LJ version are going to be far harder to find than on INAP due to the lack of good search facilities on LJ.

whiskyinmind October 20 2006, 11:20:21 UTC

The LJ community was actually set up as an interim for when the site was down, now it's acting as a companion to the site rather than a seperate archive.

Does that make sense?

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monkey_matt October 19 2006, 14:49:55 UTC

*Quakes in Fear*

You know, they do say that power goes to one's head...

Be afraid, be very afraid.

liz_marcs October 19 2006, 14:58:42 UTC

*takes out the ban hammer*

Be nice to me. *cackles*

I may require bribes. Some really good Belgium chocolate might be the order of the day.

texanfan October 19 2006, 15:07:17 UTC

I'd love to put some stuff up there, but alas, I am a computer idiot and am clueless on how to do so. I shall attempt to find someone less clueless to show me the way. :)

In the meantime, I'm glad the archive is back!

liz_marcs October 19 2006, 15:11:14 UTC

I found an easy-ish way to do it (it involves copying-and-pasting the raw code from LJ posts in a Word doc...without saving it...and doing some search-and-replace functions...saving as text...and then cutting-and-pasting into the box...it literally takes 10 minutes per story and that includes filling out all the site information).

I'm running a test to see if there's a simpler way tonight. Should be interesting. :-)

wesleysgirl October 19 2006, 15:17:11 UTC

Yay! Good for you. I'll try to get my butt in gear and put some stories up there. :-)

liz_marcs October 19 2006, 15:20:05 UTC

I'm open to bribery to make the path smoother. :-)

Seriously though, my first spin in the mod chair will be Oct. 29 through Nov. 4. Othercat is the week before. Mara right now is the one with the mod hat, so I totally don't see a problem no matter when you start.

And, like I said, the interface is hella easy right now. If the new version is as easy as Mara is telling me, that would be an awesome thing.