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Feb 20, 2018 at 6:05pm
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Re: Interactive Stories are temporarily unavailable to v...
*Lock* by Past Member 'northernwrites'
That's all dependent on how many visitors and people with free accounts are trying to access them at the same time.


You might find these posts informative about the interactives situation:

"Re: Server Volume error"  Open in new Window. by The StoryMaster Author Icon
due to the advent and proliferation of ad blockers, we've had to significantly limit the amount of server resources available to free accounts as they produce a whole lot of load on the servers with no revenue to pay for it.

"Re: Re: Re: Server Volume error"  Open in new Window. by The StoryMaster Author Icon
According to our server logs, some 11,000 people a day are logging in and using interactives for free despite the limited server available. At present, we're serving over 600,000 free interactive pages per day.
Other folks are certainly deciding they're ok to support the site with $0.06 per day to use our services.

"Re: Re: Site is becoming unusable"  Open in new Window. by The StoryMaster Author Icon
as it stands, we have no plans to increase the spending on our free member resources. To be sure, though, we're still providing a lot of free resources.


Thus, any solution to the interactives access problem lies with the users, not with the site. The people who use the service will need to decide whether it's worth competing with the other free members and guests for limited resources, or whether it's worth paying for a membership to get better access, or whether they'd rather do something else with their time.






Hope that helps.

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Interactive Stories are temporarily unavailable to visitors · 02-20-18 5:51pm
by MonkeyManiac Author IconMail Icon
*Star* Re: Interactive Stories are temporarily unavailable to v... · 02-20-18 6:05pm
by Past Member 'northernwrites'
Re: Re: Interactive Stories are temporarily unavailable ... · 02-20-18 6:48pm
by MonkeyManiac Author IconMail Icon
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