Working As Intended
If you’ve been here in the last day or so, you probably noticed two things. First, the first update went out, and there’s new stuff to read! Second, a couple of things were broken in the process. The vote box was down until last night (well, early this morning,) and given the hour at which I fixed it, I didn’t have the brain power left to update all the info pages or explain the new voting process until now.
Everything should be in order, at last. The explanation of the new voting system can be found on the About Ink Raindrops page. The short version is that voting now takes place between the first and twentieth of each month. The results of those votes will be worked on for the remaining week or so and then posted on the first of the following month. This makes for quicker voting periods, but it also gets rid of the monthly-or-bimonthly conundrum that was confusing myself and everyone else too. I hope it improves things!
All the info pages have also been updated. The pages for Liar’s Dice and The End are the most changed, but I have made small changes to the others as well. I have also changed the Author’s Notes sections for each page to be called Spoiler-Free Author’s Notes. They’re not meant to be the afterthoughts of a finished story, they’re meant to be interesting comments about what I think of the stories, where they originated, and any other interesting tidbits about them that I think are worth mentioning. There’s no risk for new readers involved.
Enjoy the updates, folks, and I’ll see you on October first, if not before!