Where do Bronies go when they die?
They don’t go to Heaven where the angels fly
They go to Equestria, visit the pegasi
Don’t seem them again until Anon comes by

If you got this reference, go take your aspirin, your back probably hurts.

Looking through the new stories every day feels like digging through a dumpster, trying to find that one story which makes the dumpster-diving worthwhile.

Most days I just walk away feeling dirty.

Of the features on the site that are missing, the most glaring is default view filtering. In short, your home view of stories should be filterable, and those filters persistent.

Without this, you essentially have only one choice: Include or not include mature stories.

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The thread on this turned into a shit storm and I get too many emails already to get pinged on that, so I stopped posting over there.

Here's my final comment on this, for anyone who cares: It doesn't matter. It's a ban without use.

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Story quality feels like it has dropped sharply since FiM ended. The new story pages are an endless quagmire of isekai crossovers, niche fetishes, and rehashes of ideas from 2012.

It might be time to give up.

Fresh challenge: Create a story which is majority written by AI but humans can not tell.

Using OpenAI, it looks like the easiest route is to get the AI to make a story outline, then recursively ask it for more detail about subsection, and then stitch it together in an organic way. Definitely doable.

Hi all,

I have a friend who is currently struggling with anxiety disorder and panic attacks. I’d like to be able to share some ponyfics with her that talk about it. What suggestions do you have?

Thanks in advance!

She’s a 10, but she has a story from 2018 with three chapters and marked “incomplete”

A story can be ruined by a single grammar error.

Get someone to review your work before you publish.

I feel like a zombie. Bleh.

Speaking of zombies: Have you ever read a story through dozens of chapters, and then found the author only updates rarely? By the time they update you’ve forgotten details of the story and can’t be assed to read it all over again?

Many good stories I have given up on because of this problem. Authors, please commit to reasonable updates, or release shorter chapters. If you can’t update inside a month, you’re doing it wrong.