by JetBoy
There’s been an unfortunate development to mark the new year at Juicy Secrets: our ratings meter has been shut down, and all the ratings numbers have vanished with it.
This sorry saga began when Amanda noticed the site was taking a long, long time to function. Delving into the wheels and gears, it was quickly established that the ratings widget was our culprit. The plugin’s site wasn’t responding, which meant that our site was contacting theirs until it timed out, hence the delay.
Upon visiting the plugin’s home page, this message was found: “This plugin has been closed as of December 25, 2025 and is not available for download. This closure is permanent.” And since all the ratings were stored on their servers, their demise means we’re unable to access that data.
What can I say? In order to function, Juicy Secrets has to rely on outside sources to present our efforts to you, our public. Inevitably, problems will occasionally arise with the services we get from some of those outsiders. Those of you who have been with us from the start will recall how we’ve been booted off two different platforms for our content (one of whom literally changed their own rules to justify it). In this case, we can’t even say why it happened. I suppose the plugin wasn’t making enough cold, hard cash for whoever owned it.
Anyhow, the damage is done. My regrets to all you authors, past and present, who put a great value on your ratings. We are seeking out a replacement plugin, and hope to have it installed and working within the next couple of weeks. You’ll be kept up to date.
Not the best present at all, especially after the decade plus of incredible curation you have provided.
Mindful of how little I comment, I suppose the interim solution should be to encourage verbal bot mots to accompany our individual delights on finding new tales as the unfold or revisiting delicious archived memories..
Since I nag the Juicy Secrets community every year about the importance of leaving comments, I elected to refrain from doing so in this post. So I thank you, Rabby, for saying it for me.