Hi Everybody!

I looked into ways to subscribe to the podcast feed and I've found this lovely online podcast subscription service that I've signed up for.

You can check it out here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/meijitalespodcast

You have several options for subscribing to the podcast now, most popular besides iTunes being by email - you will get an email notice every time we add a new podcast to the site if you want to sign up for it, here is the link:

Subscribe to MeijiTales.com Podcast by Email

On a side note: I've added a couple new skins. 

As always, enjoy!

Okay everybody, just wanted to let you know that the archive is OPEN again for all new submissions, members, authors, reviewers, updates, etc., etc., etc.

Here are SOME of the new features:

- Who’s online information on the main page
- Number of times a story has been read
- Fields in your profile for your LJ, Myspace, DiviantArt, FF.net, etc. accounts
- Ability to set your own classifications in addition to warnings and genres (i.e. Spoilers, Episode Related, Pairings, Language, Story Length, Story Type, etc)
- Added pagination to individual series page.
- Story counts are back. 
- Added Table of Contents link to the storyblock and viewstory page for stories.
- Co-authors    Yes. plural.
- Chapter end notes.
- Story notes.
- The main admin page will now tell you how many stories are in the validation queue. So does the info block.
- TinyMCE can now be toggled on/off on the page.
- Members can now turn tinyMCE and story indexes on/off for themselves (TinyMCE can only be turned on if the site has it turned on)
- Members can choose the default story sort for themselves. 
- The number of responses to a challenge is now listed in the information for the challenge.
- Stories updated within the time frame of your "recent days" setting will now also be marked as "New!"

I hope you all enjoy the new features and the new skin.  I am leaving this week, but when I get back I'm going to make some more skins, intergrate and upgrade the site forums, set up PODCASTING, and fix up some of the other pending technical issues here.

Hi all,

Due to issues with spambots, I've had to turn off the feature for annoymous reviews, so all reviews for now need to be by registered users.  If you aren't registered and would like to leave a review, please sign up for an account.  No worries about spam from me or anything like that from getting registered.  This should fix our spambot problem.  I'm hoping to upgrade the script soon to eFiction 3.0, and when that happens we will hopefully be able to turn the annoymous review feature back on.

In other news...as of today, you must sign on and be 17 years or older to read Rated R stories. This has been implemented to restrict younger members and viewers from reading materials meant for mature audiences.  And if by any chance you do sign up and lie about your age—just know that you are the one being dishonest (and breaking the law) and that our side is clear of guilt. 

This is just a reminder for authors competing in the 2005 RKRC.

We are now entering all official entries into the archives here so we can set up the voting booth, so if you got an email from the archives with your login and password, it's because we had to set up an account for you.  Keep these for your records so you will have access to your account in the future.

If you have questions, please contact myself or any of the other K-gumi staff. 

Ok, just before I get more people volunteering to help out, I want to let you all know, I'm now probably overstaffed with the enormous response I've received for this.  So, I don't need anymore Kenshin-gumi members at the moment, and I think I have enough beta team members for the time-being as well.  I will still accept beta team applications though if you really want to join. ^_^

I'm so thrilled that so many of you are willing to help out and have signed up.  I think this is really going to help out this site and it will definitely help me have more time to take care of things like the RKRC and making improvements to this site.

So without furhter ado, here is a complete list of the MT.com staff as of May 28th, 2006:

Kenshin-gumi:

Bunny
DreamHeart
Kellen
Mitchy
Nekotsuki
PraiseDivineMercy
Ravyn

Beta Team:

Bunny
dementedchris
DreamHeart
Espiritus
guanyin-kun
Kellen
Mitchy
PraiseDivineMercy
Ravyn
Rhyein
SiriusFan13
sueb262

Team Leader: Ravyn

There is also one beta application still pending, so I will announce that one as well once they are all set up.

Thanks so much everybody for being so generous with your time!  I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. ^_^ 

For any of you willing to help out around here, I'm currently in need of the following staff postions:

Kenshin-gumi - Specifically I would like someone who would be willing to join the staff and also host the monthly challenges here on MT.com in addition to all other K-gumi staff duties.

Kenshin-gumi - Regular K-gumi staff member.  Check submissions, add RKRC stories, etc.  Possibly more than one of these.

Beta Readers Team Leader: Someone who will oversee the beta reader team under my direction. 

Beta Readers - As many as possible. We're in desperate need of more members on the beta readers team.  There are many authors out there needing beta readers, and we need an easy way to get them in contact with those willing to help.   I'm going to revamp the way the beta team is run to streamline this process as well, so I need to get those willing to help out signed up and added to the team ASAP.

If you have any questions, interest, have the skills and resources availble to help in any of these postitions, please email me bunny@meijitales.com ASAP. 

Just added a few skins that have been sitting around on my hard drive today.  You can test them out by using the drop down on the main page right above the recently added.  The new skins are called:

"doujinshi"
"funny"
"knk3"
"misao"
"sanomegumi"

I hope you all enjoy them!