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somebody - user with nick holls91 - updated efiction tinymce script with tinymce 4.5.3  I just used, but there were other important things to do.  I fixed toogle on/off functionality. But I noticed that now it uses almost all buttons (like fonts, colors) and it is missing Paste from Word functionality.

But it still applies limitations to allowed HTML tags you can set in efiction settings.  And the same rules are applied for all textareas - news and stories. 

It is just confusing. I would suggest to use full tinymce editor for news and limited one for stories. 

I would like to open a discussion on how this editor area should work. On our old site with different cms we still use tinymce3 but it is limited only to some admins.  

I got to say though that Efiction really went down the tubes. No support means lost visitors and people moving on.

I know that this is about the custom version of the efiction script but I hit my brain wall and I need some help.  

I have already a working version, efiction is mostly separated, and for admins everything works.   Before continuing I need to solve authors vs users data.

In efiction, you have authors table and authors are members with at least one story.  In e107+efiction version I have separated users (members) and authors tables. 

Users can log in site, classic member accounts. The author is just a member who wants to add a story.   

The easiest version is:

-  each user has one author account, generated in the background. Then I can leave efiction functionality without changes (except updating code). 

The better version:

- member asks for an author account, the member can review, pass by age consent etc, only if they have a connected author account, they can add stories etc.

This way I can rid author custom fields (e107 has really advanced solution for this) because those fields are about member information. 

This way I can rid some author preferences fields - from my check only validated + stories are related to the authors themselves.  Others are related to users.  

I originally tried to avoid changing efiction tables - to wait for some update - but writing this here helps me to sort things a bit.

Is there anything I should know about author accounts before I make the decision on what to do? - I don't know - some troubles, why authors are the same as members etc... anything helps.

Site - still under development - is https://www.hpfanfiction.cz/, if you want to look.

Thanks

A few a years ago I took it over because the owners at the time put a lot of money into resolving a hack and didn’t want to maintain it. I didn’t want to see it die, so I took it over and have been running it for 3 yrs. It gets a little traffic, is mostly nostalgic, but I am tired.

I pay for hosting and backups. Last year there was a malware issue and I spent $$$ to fix it and now pay for site monitoring. I receive no funds to offset costs. 

I don’t know enough about the backend to be useful so I have to hire someone if I need anything done. PhP is an issue any time my host does an upgrade or a change. Overrall, Im tired of babysitting the archive and spending money to keep it going. When I took the site over, I thought efiction was getting an overhaul to make it easier to use— then development died. 

I see some activity here (yay) but not a timeline or a path to a new version. I also don’t see any other software we could move to. Feeling stuck- don’t want to let go of all of our history but I’m tired. 

Pridefulmoon.com was born if you guys wanted to check it out. I see not much people pose anymore. But I have found many helpful things via this forum. Thanks for all the hard work, I hope you continues too update and keep the script alive Im sure many people still use and want this script, it was just a little hard to fine.