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Did you know? Your Reputation Power limits how much you can rate stories. But don't worry, it regenerates after 12 hours. You start with 6 reputation power points you can spend. But the more reputation you gain yourself, the higher your reputation power will rise up to a maximum of 40 points.
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If you have been here for a while, you will have noticed by now that the forum has fallen asleep over the course of the last few months. The influx of new stories has been drastically reduced since the peak of activity back in June, and the lack of feedback for authors has made the forum utterly unattractive for new authors to post their stories here. We are on course to end up in the same state as all our predecessors. But we...
When you enter a topic and scroll to the top of the page, you will see to the right of the Post Reply button another button with a wrench symbol on it. When you click on it, a drop down menu will show you the options Print view and Print all . Print view is a standard feature of the phpBB forum software. It lets you print all posts displayed on the current page as simple black on white text. The Print all option comes from an extension that...
The Reputation System adds the possibility to rate posts to the base phpBB forum software. Only posts in the story boards can be rated . A user's reputation is the combined reputation of all their posts. A user can rate a post with +1 to +3 points, but their ability to rate posts is limited by their own reputation. The reputation of a story is what classifies it as a Popular Story or a Community Favorite. Users with high reputation become...
mChat is an extension that adds an integrated chat to the base phpBB forum software. So no seperate account is needed to use the chat. Besides the public rooms that all users can participate in, all users can create private rooms that they can invite other users into. We hope that the chat will especially be helpful for users looking for role play partners.
The RH Topic Tags extension adds to the phpBB base forum software the possibility for the creator of a topic to add tags to their topic. Users can use these tags either indirectly as a guide that helps them decide whether they are interested in a topic or directly by searching for all topics that use a specific tag by clicking on it.
The Post Bookmarks extension adds another feature to the board. At the top right of each post you can see a button with a bookmark symbol on it. If you click on it, the symbol will turn red and a bookmark for that specific post will be created. You can find the post bookmarks also in the User Control Panel. Use post bookmarks to remind yourself where you stopped reading a longer story. Either return to a bookmarked post from your User Control...
The cBB Reactions extension adds the possibility for users to react to posts from a set of predefined emojis to the base phpBB forum software. Just click on the smiley at the bottom right of each post and a menu with the set of reactions should open up that lets you choose a reaction for a post.
These reactions are specifically chosen to fit story feedback, rather than general forum posts.
Drafts are a standard feature of the phpBB forum software. If you write a reply in a topic or create a new topic, you will see a button that says Save Draft left of the Preview button below the text editor window. You can use drafts to save a post that is not yet finished and that you want to continue writing later on. If you have saved a draft, the Load Draft button will appear below text editor window. Click on it, load your draft and continue...
If you type at least the first two letters of a user you would like to mention as @username in one of your posts, a dropdown menu will show that will suggest a list of usernames to you. Choose the user you want to mention from that list. For example @Vela Nanashi . The mentioned username will turn into a link to the wall of the mentioned user. Also, the mentioned user will receive a notification that lets them know who mentioned them where.
Post models is an extension to the base phpBB forum that allows admins to create templates for posts that either all users or only moderators and admins can use. Currently, there are templates for opening posts to stories , new chapters to stories and story collection threads.
Topic Preview is an extension to the base phpBB forum that shows users a glimpse of the opening post of a thread when they hover with their mouse over its title. By default, it shows the first 360 characters of the opening post. We increased that limit to 450. Using the nopreview- BBcode , it can be chosen which part of the opening post specifically will be shown to users.
