@Mat Twassel
Do you have any idea what is the most stories published in one day on SoL?
Day -- Story Count
2024-11-29 - 32
2025-08-17 - 27
2006-11-06 - 26
2003-06-30 - 25
2019-12-04 - 25
2002-11-23 - 23
2002-04-25 - 22
I removed the days that had contest stories released.
The least?
There have been many days with 0 new story submissions.
Are there more or fewer stories now than about ten years ago? Twenty years ago?
There have been years where the site received less than 2000 stories per year and some years more. The data can't be gathered accurately because of story deletions by authors. Like an author in the last couple of years deleting over 500 stories in one shot and their posting was concentrated in 2 or 3 years.
So far 2025 has received over 3200 stories; which is in the top of the range.
What are some of the things about a submission that make posting it more difficult or time consuming for you? What are some things that make the posting easier for you?
After years of refining my code, these days nothing is particularly difficult.
The most time consuming is images as there is a lot of copy, find, paste actions. And it's only time consuming when there are a lot of image. Even then, 30 images to insert take a couple of minutes to process.
The most difficult to deal with is when the author does the 'belt-and-suspenders' thing with formatting. They type HTML codes into the text and then format the text and submit in HTML or .docx. So we receive something like this from the system:
{ I}< i>italicized< /I>{ /I} and worse, sometime the codes are partially formatted too, so we receive something like { b}< b>bold{/b< /b>}
The most annoying is usually excessively repeated reposts in the same day of the same chapter/story.
There was an author, who is gone now, that used to post a new chapter and then repost that same chapter nearly 20 times during the same day. Chapter 1 of one of his story was reposted over 200 times over the years.
Up to 3 reposts is par for the course.
The fewest type of posts is a new story. The most per day is chapter reposts. We receive on average about 60 to 70 chapter reposts per day.