Under "My Account" you'll notice a new link, "Manage Recommendations". This is basically a tool that will allow all registered members to recommend stories that aren't archived here.

All recommendations will require admin validation to ensure that there is no spam or abuse of the system.

I hope everyone enjoys the new tool, and as always contact us if you have any queries or problems.

ETA: until I get the skins edited with the new menu link, Browse by Recommendations. 

Wow, what a milestone. We are barely 7 months old, and we have already a thousand stories archived. It's our very own administrator xoxoxo who had the pleasure to put up story 1000: The Rules of Love By: Michael G. Scott. Thank you to all our writers and readers for making this a fun archive to run!

Here's to a thousand more stories. Let's hope we continue to grow and that Pam and Jim stop making us despair over the state of their relationship . ;)

We had a discussion amongst administrators at MTT, and we just wanted to outline a few important points.

Most members are respectful and overall, we have a lovely peaceful community.  However, some recent incidents have made it necessary for us to remind you of some points and institute a change. 

1) While registering multiple aliases for the purpose of having different types of fic kept separate is acceptable (e.g., to keep your MA-rated stories separate from the rest of your writing or to have a different identity for your angsty stories vs. your fluff), using multiple identities to flame, troll, and/or deceive other members is strictly forbidden.  Accounts will be locked immediately if such behaviour comes to our attention. 

2) Reviews must be polite and while constructive criticism is welcome, flaming/unpleasantness towards the writer of the story or other members of MTT is not.  This point leads to...

3) The option of leaving anonymous reviews has been suspended, at least temporarily.  It is far too easy to leave a rude review when one does not have to own up to it, and monitoring anonymous reviews is a bit of a headache on our end.  We hope this does not discourage readers from leaving feedback to our wonderful writers because this is not the intent.  We just want to make sure our writers receive a helpful kind (i.e., constructive) of reviews.

4) Please do read the Terms of Service and the submission rules.  Makes life easier for everyone.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us.  We are always happy to help, especially if you are new around here and are not sure how things work.  

I just updated the site to the latest patch of the software.

The sorting feature within categories and subcategories is now working without any problems by the looks of it.

The same can't be said for the Search function, which still doesn't seem to sort the fics to the search parameters, and on some searches navigating to the next page of the results will return a mySQL error. I will try and follow this up, but we may just have to wait until the next patch.

On the brightside, it's halfway there!

Don't forget to contact us if you run into any other site bugs.

Challenges were being discussed over at TWoP so I am adding two excellent ideas sent in by MTT readers.  I give you Evening Coming and Role Reversal.  Enjoy!

Here is a post-episode challenge that I was planning to have up last weekend, but time got away from me.  Anyway, here is Jamaica Jan Sun Princess.  In Jim's words about Jan's trip with Michael to Jamaica: "What happened there? Kidnapping?"  Indeed, what happened in Jamaica?  What made Jan decide to go with Michael?  What was their vacation like?  Can a holiday with Michael Scott be a relaxing time?

As always, we ask that you refrain from posting challenges yourself, and email us instead with your ideas so that we can have a steady flow of new challenges, which we will feature on the homepage.

Yes, we do have forums at MTT that you can feel free to use to discuss fanfic and/or the show.  Some people asked how they work.  The databank with usernames and passwords that goes with the fanfic software we use here is not connected to the one for the forums so you have to register for the forums separately although you should be able to keep the same username and password if you so choose.  The registration button is hard to see but it is at the top of the page, under the more than that quote.

I've always had trouble with our default skin(version 5) viewing in Internet Explorer the way it should, but with the upgrade, it's messed it up even more than it was!  If you're seeing the white and pale green layout and using IE, you should change the skin to one of the other four layouts, which seem to be working fine after some upgrade tweaking.  Or you could switch browsers to the far more superior Firefox.  Just saying.  ;-)

Version 5 is my favourite skin because it integrates with the rest of the site so well, so I'll be working very hard to fix the text run off problem.  Hopefully I can have it fixed sometime during the week