Posted by docbyron on Apr 4th, 2023

I was doing housekeeping on some old submissions that violate our content policy and noticed there were more than a couple of reports and comment section flame wars that called the vagueness of Submission Rule 6 into question. I thought I'd take a moment to clarify it.

That rule (at the time of writing) is: "This is a transformation-themed site. We strongly recommend that stories should contain a physical transformation. We won't ban or mute users who post pure furry or other fetish material, but please be aware that it's strongly discouraged."

Like I mentioned above, this rule is pretty vaguely-worded, and that's intentional. I prefer to avoid rigid rules and would really rather let the community decide what belongs here by voting/tagging as needed, and only intervene myself when absolutely necessary.

I don't want to require that stories have to include a transformation because this community has so many adjacent interests that scratch the same itch, and I love how many sub-genres of perversion I've been exposed to as a result of that.

Likewise, I don't want to require that stories have to be NSFW or strictly fetish material because there are plenty of people in this community who like things on the tamer side, and I've read plenty of great stories here that didn't include anything remotely raunchy.

However, I want to be abundantly clear that I still expect submissions to be actual STORIES. Please don't post submissions that are brainstorming sessions asking for ideas, or ads for your Patreon, or announcements that you're open for commissions, or social-media-style status updates. If there's really some political rant you need to get off your chest, do it in the forums or your profile. Or fuck, if you really insist on making it a submission, at least write it into an actual story. Let your characters have their annoying debate and then turn into slugs or something. I dunno. Just don't be surprised when a ton of people start crying in the comments.

Posted by docbyron on Mar 28th, 2023

Our content policy will be updated to reflect this, but as of now, we don't allow AI-generated stories to be posted on this site.

In their current state, AI stories are consistently little better than mad-libs, and there's no value to them beyond the humor of seeing the dumb computer make silly words.

Maybe we'll revisit this policy in the future if the quality and originality of story-generating AI ever improves. To be honest, this ban is probably self-correcting, because if an AI story is ever actually good enough to avoid mod suspicion, the problem solves itself.

I'm not going to interrogate authors to prove a story isn't AI-generated; it's generally quite obvious and I'm mainly interested in getting rid of the obvious stuff. Yes, you're welcome to use an AI to get you started on a story that you flesh out if that helps you. Yes, if you figure out a way to trick an AI into writing something decent, you're super cool.

Posted by docbyron on Jul 23rd, 2019

Viewing a single story should be fast again. There's an issue with the story view counts that was slowing the whole thing down horribly (as I'm sure you noticed).

For now, I'm just going to disable submission view counts until I finally get around to finishing the new-new-new version of this site (coming soon LOLOLOL /wrists)

Posted by docbyron on Sep 16th, 2018

Fixed an issue that was causing story browsing to be pretty slow. Should be substantially faster now.

Posted by docbyron on Jul 19th, 2018

Hey everyone, the Lab now has an SSL cert (https protocol in the URL), for those who've been asking for that.

This was related to why emails (password reset and new registration emails) weren't working for a little bit. Should be fixed now, but let me know if you experience any issues.