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June 9, 2009
Just a quick note to mention that we've had more than 1,000,000 (yes, 1 million) views of the stories here.

March 12, 2009
5,000 comments! That's right, our readers (that's you :) ) have posted over 5,000 comments on the stories on this site.

December 12, 2008
The 1,500th story was published today! And another 30-odd are already in the pipeline.

November 15, 2008
We broke the 4,000 barrier yesterday with (y)our comments. Great work!
We are also rapidly approaching 1,500 stories & articles on the site.

July 20, 2008
Due to the large amount of spam we've been getting lately in comments on stories (we've been deleting them manually so as not to annoy you with them), we've had to turn the image verification feature on for comments. We're sorry for the extra field to be required to be filled out, but deleting some 300 spam comments after a few days absence is getting ridiculous.

June 25, 2008
Time for some figures. Last week we broke 3,000 comments on the stories, and today we've reached the 500,000 story reads mark. Onwards to the million :)

May 28, 2008
Due to the fact that many readers living in and visiting Thailand also have an interest in the South-East Asia area, we have included a new category on Thailand Stories titled: ‘Stories from Around SEA’. This new category is open for submission for stories set in or about countries in South-East Asia, excluding Thailand. We hope this new category will be something you all will enjoy for its extra reading material on subjects about the SEA area.

April 17, 2008
Over 2,500 comments have been made on the stories posted on this site. We are sure this is much appreciated by the authors, so please, keep them coming.

February 26, 2008
March 8th (Saturday) book launch/signing at Kinokuniya Book Store in Emporium (Sukhumvit) Shopping Complex. (3rd floor, Room 301-3) for the new book ‘Bangkok Blondes’ authored by ‘The Bangkok Women’s Writers Group’. Very few books on Thailand are written by women. 'Bangkok Blondes' is one of the first.

January 23, 2008
Mon Tri's Boathouse is having another writing contest this year. For more details visit their site.

December 13, 2007
After reaching 1,000 stories on the site only a few days ago, we have today reached more than 2,000 comments on the stories.

December 1, 2007
We are happy to announce the opening of the ThailandStories.com Book Store. We will try to keep this stocked with the best books on and set in Thailand.
If you have a recommendation for an addition to the store, by all means let us know and we'll be happy to add it.

November 16, 2007
1,000 STORIES!!! That's right, with the 2 stories that were added today the total amount of stories on the site has broken the 1,000 mark.
A hearty 'Well done!' to all the authors.

October 31, 2007
Mike is back in Surin after a month's absence due to family illness and can be reached again on mike@thailandstories.com.
We have also received word that sisterray had a nasty case of malaria, but is luckily well on the way to recovery again. Sisterray, we hope to see you 100% recovered again soon.

October 1, 2007
Just a quick note to say that the stories on this site have now been read over 250,000 times!

September 28, 2007
There have been some problems adding articles in the last few days, and it seems that it may be related to copying-pasting from the new Word for Windows Vista. We are looking into it, but in the meantime could you avoid using Word for Vista?

August 19, 2007
1,500 comments! That's right, the stories have received a combined 1,500 comments.

July 29, 2007
We've upgraded the editor for entering stories to the latest version. Hopefully this will fix the problems sometimes occurring when importing stories from Word.

July 7, 2007
The stories on the site have been read a combined 200,000 times.
The code allowing you to set how many stories are shown on the front page has been completed. The value you choose is now kept between visits to the site.

June 10, 2007
In addition to being able to comment on the stories here (which is still the prefered method), two other avenues have sprung up in the form of a forum on Schoochers.com as well as a forum on the newly established 'The HoltBlog Forum'. The appearance of these forums (fora?) do beg the question whether or not we should add one here. Thoughts are welcome.

May 20, 2007
We've added a bunch more links to sites we feel might be of interest to you, our readers. You can check out the list here.

May 13, 2007
We've implemented the first stage of the feature allowing you to change the number of stories displayed on the home page. It is possible to change the amount now using the pull down box to the right of Latest Stories, but this value is not yet kept. We're hoping to get that functionality implemented within the next couple of days.

May 9, 2007
Well, that was a bit unexpected :)
Turning on the rating system has caused quite a stir and quite a bit of feedback, all of it against using a rating system. Since our main purpose is to provide a place for writers and readers that suits their needs we have taken this feedback to heart and the rating system has been turned off again.

May 8, 2007
750 stories! That's right, we broke the next milestone with regards to the amount of stories on the site. Onwards to 1,000.
We also turned on the rating system (more in the upcoming newsletter). Let us know how you feel about this.

May 1, 2007
The comments feature seems to be quite popular seeing that the number of comments on the stories has exceeded 1,000.
Keep them coming please as we are certain the authors appreciate the feedback.

March 31, 2007
The server move has been succesfull and the outage problems should now be a thing of the past.
Oh, btw, we're only 1 story short of 700, and it - and a couple dozen others - is already lined up to be published soon.

February 13, 2007
Looks like we totally forgot our anniversary (luckily neither of us is female, so nobody got upset :) ) which was February 5th. The year has gone quite quickly and rather well for us as the latest figures show: 64 writers who wrote a combined 614 stories (with another 49 in the pipeline) which were read 120,000+ times and commented upon 718 times.
Our intention is to at least double - and preferably triple - those numbers this year and with your continued support I am certain we'll be able to do so.

February 5, 2007
In an effort to help prevent spam, we have removed the display of email addresses with the comments. The requirement to add an email address when posting a comment has also been removed.

January 2, 2007
As the amount and frequency of comments has increased quite a bit they disappear of the front page much quicker than before. To allow people to still keep track of the latest comments without checking the site 2-3 times a day we have added a Latest Comments page which lists the last 30 comments added to the site.
A start has also been made on allowing authors to add a biography to their profile pages. The biographies can be displayed, but at the moment authors cannot edit these themselves. Those authors wishing to add a biography, please send them to us by email.

December 31, 2006
That's it. The 100,000th read of a story on the site was some time last night.

December 26, 2006
After having reached 500 stories just 2 weeks back, we have today broken 500 again. The 500th comment was added onto the site today.
We are also getting very close to 100,000 reads of our stories.

December 16, 2006
To provide more flexibility in how our stories are read we have added the option to change the font size of the stories. Each story has a box at the top right in which you can increase / decrease the font size. Please let us know if you would prefer even larger or smaller fonts and we'll update the script to accommodate.

December 12, 2006
500 stories, articles and poems! Traffic and submissions have really picked up lately and we have reached 500 submissions much earlier than we had expected.
So, a big thank you to all the authors for helping us build up the site!

December 2, 2006
We have just added an archive page for our newsletters. You can view them here: Newsletter archive

November 26, 2006
We moved the site to a new server yesterday which caused some small glitches and outages. We think everything is okay again, but if you encounter an error please let us know.

November 21, 2006
Quick note to authors: Stories set for publication on future dates are now visible & editable from your Control Panel.
If you have any functionality requests, feel free to ask and we'll see what we can do to accommodate.

November 18, 2006
Traffic has increased quite a bit in the last week or so, as has the amount of authors and stories. We have also received a lot of new content. Another 30+ stories are lined up to be published between now and the end of the year.

November 5, 2006
Our stories have now been read more than 75,000 times.
Oh, and the number of authors has reached 50+.

October 28, 2006
For those of you with a talent for writing you might want to consider submitting an entry to this writing contest. The prizes include a free stay for 2 at Mom Tri's Boathouse, free dinner and wine, and more. Mom Tri's is a beautiful hotel on the beach in Phuket. Jake Needham will be judging the entries.
Full contest info and rules.

October 17, 2006
And that makes 400! That's right, we now have 400 stories on the site. Comments reached 300 a few days ago and we are getting quite close to 75,000 story reads.
Let's see if we can reach 500 stories by the end of the year.

October 7, 2006
We have just finished installing software to send out newsletters. The plan is to send out a newsletter once per month, with the first going out soon, with information on latest stories added, news, an occasional interview, etc.
If you wish to receive this newsletter, fill out the form in the left bar on each page of the site.

September 10, 2006
With the recent sign up of 'the swagman' we now have 40+ authors writing Thai stories on this site.

September 8, 2006
While things have slowed down a bit with regards to new stories (guess people are enjoying the summer time weather), we did reach 250 comments today. So, thank you for the feedback and keep it coming please.

July 23, 2006
It looks like we have solved the missing country names bug that has been plaguing us for a while. To find out what to do, read this article.

July 12, 2006
Our stories have been read over 50,000 times! Oh, and we are getting close to 200 comments.

June 13, 2006
300+ stories! Yep, we've added another 50 stories since breaking the 250 story barrier only 40 days ago. An average of 1.25 new stories per day.

May 31, 2006
Just a quick note to say that we've added a Science Fiction sub-category under Fiction.
Oh, and we now have over 150 comments on the stories.

May 21, 2006
A new sub-category, Mystery, has added under the Fiction category as with the arrival of Dean Barrett's murder mystery story (which started today and will appear on this site over the next 3 weeks, every Sunday and Thursday) it made sense to move the Mystery stories in a sub-category of their own.

May 20, 2006
The site has been upgraded to version 2.1.3 today. This fixed some minor bugs, mainly in the admin area.

May 4, 2006
We have just reached 250 stories on the site - with another 20 already lined up to be published over the next few weeks - written by 29 different writers. Over 100 comments have been made on these stories.

April 29, 2006
The issue has been resolved and the full assortment of our stories - which is rapidly reaching the 250 mark - is available for your reading pleasure again.

April 26, 2006
Due to some unforeseen circumstances we have decided to remove all our mature stories until we can figure out how to best deal with the issue.

April 21, 2006
Pebo has recently send us 13 short stories (mostly non-fictional travel stories), the first 2 of which have already been published. The remaining stories will appear on this site every Monday and Friday until the end of May.

April 9, 2006
Writers, you will now be notified by email when someone posts a comment on one of your stories.

April 1, 2006
Looks like the recent upgrade to version 2.1.2 had introduced a bug with the categories preventing users from viewing anything but the first page. This has been fixed today.

March 15, 2006
We have reached 200 stories / articles, written by almost two dozen writers.

March 11, 2006
We've just finished the Latest Comments box, which can be seen to the right. It contains the last 5 comments added to any of our stories / articles.