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Started this as a 'reply' comment, but realized it was way longer than merited... so moved it to its own blog!
Only a bit short of 2 years ago, I found TopShelf by way of a friend pointing me at a piece of fiction here (Leeway, by the way) and was rather pleasantly surprised. You see, a large amount of my friends figure that if it has any TG content, why, since I'm TG I must like it! Well, I'm not especially fond of forced femme, not especially fond of one-handed fiction as a whole... and in past experience, that's pretty much what was out there. |
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| Now, over the years, there had been some excellent pieces of fiction that I'd been pointed at. I always tried to read them if only to be fair. I would save the ones that were, in my opinion, well done!
Then after enjoying Leeway so much, up to the point where it had been finished at the time, I decided to go ahead and look around the site. Wow. I was pleasantly surprised. In the past, TG Fiction sites seemed to specialize in the stuff I didn't like and maybe 1 in 1000 were something I liked. Now, this isn't to say that those sites were BAD. No. Just not the kind of thing I was into. TopShelf, however... it was like the ration was the other way. There was about 1 in 100 that I didn't like! Why, most of the stories I'd archived over the years were here, too! I settled in and began to explore for a few months. There were a lot of really good TG stories that I had never seen or even heard of the authors! Then I started to think... "Hey, I can do this..." And so I did. In 11 days, I wrote and posted as fast as I could, the first 8 pieces of Sk8r Grrls and to my surprise... people loved it. Now, at that point, Erin was ecstatic about the fact that she was up to the point where her authors were posting an average of a story per day! Wow! Nifty! Gee willikers! ... and I watched the site grow. ... and grow... ... and grow! By January 2008, we had an average of 8 to 10 stories being posted daily! Why, some days there were lots more... there were even the rare days with over TWENTY stories being posted in a 24 hour time period! Stories were being posted so frequently, in fact, that they couldn't stay on the front page for more than a few hours and people were missing some really good stuff! So I had an idea. I asked a few folks about how it would be received, and then took it to Erin. She said, "That's a great idea, but it's awfully time consuming. I don't have time to do that. If you code it and post it and do the updating, sure, I'll add it." So I joined the admin team here on 2008 January 19, with the introduction of Shortcuts! and over the next few months expanded it to give the Holiday of the Day, and then a link to information about that holiday, and provided a way for folks to be able to see what they'd missed that day without having to click through pages and pages of links to figure out what they'd read and what they hadn't. The point being, that the method of posting here, making it so that the authors add their own content, is a great deal of what makes TopShelf so special -- it's constantly updating. Glad you're enjoying it! |
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Edeyn Hannah Blackeney |
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| Wasn't it Jim Henson who said, "Without faith, I am nothing," after all? No, wait, that was God... Sorry, common mistake to make... | ||
Comments
Holly sticks her tongue in her cheek
Yeah, we hate what you've done to help the site so much the tears were knee deep while you were away.
You are one of the many bright spots in the community, and we are glad you have been here, and glad you are back.
It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,
David Weber – In Fury Born
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Thanks for all you do
RAMI
Dear Edeyn: Thanks for all you do. This is the best site of all. Those who run it do not get enough thanks. So Thank you again.
Rami
RAMI
I second that
Also thanks for the plug :) <--(I was going to make that a parenthetical comment, but....)
Hey you with the weird name! Um, Edeyn H. Blackeney...
Thank you so much for adding your talents and ideas to make our site even better!
It is people like you that make this site a joy to post our stories on.
I think Erin sure does need that new server because I truly believe the numbers are going to stay as they are even when the other two main sites become functional again.
The growth I have seen this site achieve in such a short time is beyond anything I had expected. I knew it would grow, but GEEZE!
Great work and a huge thank you to all of you who make this site so wonderful to be a part of!
Angel
(I know my grammar sucks, but I try!)
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"