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Story Delivery Changes

This post is now old and irrelevant after the various changes over the years. I've implemented some important changes in the story delivery mechanism today. The new system has the ability to deliver long stories or long chapters in multiple pages. Explanation: Storiesonline is a busy site. Very busy site. In order to keep the site running smoothly and responding as fast as possible to readers' requests, the reply time for those requests must be kept short. The servers have limited numbers of connections. So the faster each reader got their file and their browser disconnected, the faster the server could respond to another reader. In order to keep connection times short, I tried to keep files as small as possible. That meant for long stories that took a while to reach the readers' browsers, I used to divide the story into chapters and long chapters into sub-chapters. That's why some stories have 'Chapter 1A', 'Chapter 1B' etc... While the old way was perf

Looking for a story

Looking for a story that is supposed to be on storiesonline, but of course, can't remember the author or the title: The main character is hired or rents a house. That night he and the house move back in time. The next night he goes back to the present. The owner who lives nearby comes by and tells him that this happens and sometimes the person living in the house doesn’t come back. The owner’s sons come over and clear more of the land around the house and the house and the cleared land goes back. As he picks up travelers the house grows with the need. It becomes as large as a castle with underground garage and target range. Appreciate any pointers