Many new stories are featuring banners, and they are wonderful. We love banners, and are in awe of the work and creativity it takes to make them. That said, we know they can make it difficult to inconspicuously sneak a peek at the most recent list while at work sometimes you just want things simple and clean. So, you now have the option to hide banners from the browse pages and story index. Banners are always shown by default. To change your settings, go to your preferences, uncheck the box for 'Display banners on browse pages and story index' and click submit. If you uncheck the box, the banners will be hidden, and in their place you'll see a message that says '** Click here to see this story's banner**'. If you want to view the banner, you can hover over that message to see a thumbnail of the image, or you can click the message to view the image full size. Remember that it sometimes takes a little push for your phone/computer to register the style changes, so you may need to refresh your page if things don't look quite right.

In totally unrelated news, you may have noticed that your statistics page now includes your total wordcounts for stories and reviews written. I recently modded the reviews to keep track of review wordcounts (this only includes your initial review, not responses by you or the author) because I felt review wordcount was just as, if not more, important than the regular review count.

As always, let me, Megan or pfeifferpack know if you have any questions.