I think it could be cleaned-up some fersure.

Actually, I'd prefer that the latest stories be moved to a separate page, but if you really want to keep them on the main page then:

1. The story titles on the main page could be reduced to a uniform height.

2. The story title should appear only once. The double heading should be eliminated.

3. The synopsis should be a required field.

4. The category keys should be put on a separate page.

5. The author keys should have their own page.

6. The forum keys should have their own page.

7. Leave the recent comments up on the main page (great feature), but make it easy to know which story each comment links to. (I look at the story number as a part of the url at the bottom of my browser while the mouse tracks over the comment link and match it to the story title, but that's a little clumsy.)

Personally, I like the idea of an attractive main page with little clutter and just links to where I want to go. I don't need to immediately see the list of the latest stories. Things that would be nice to see on a cleaned-up main page would be a stats list showing the number of stories, the number of comments, when the latest story was put up, and, of course, the money counter.

And it would help if the stories from BC were migrated to TS. The sooner the better. It doesn't make much sense to me to keep both BC's and TS active. Naturally, I could do my part, too. :)

I think many authors are reluctant to migrate their stories over because they don't want them read as if they were brand new. If the original creation date of an older story is entered when it's uploaded (or migrated) instead of the current date/time, then the story won't be displayed among the latest stories, which seem to follow creation chronological order - but it will appear under the author's link and the categories assigned to it. That's the way I'll migrate Jayti Singh and others - so as not to inflict them on the universe again until they're reeditted. :)

Aardvark