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• Make sure your LP is up to date in the master list. In particular the title and author should be listed as you want them to appear, the link should be up to date, and the category (Video/Screenshot/Hybrid) should be accurate. The login details are in the sandcastle OP.
• If you want to do a pass for grammar/spelling/corrections then make sure do it before submitting to me. I don't do edits after the thread is submitted.
• When your thread has been processed I'll email you a draft that is exactly how it will look once it goes live, this will be your last chance to identify any issues if something went wrong in the archiving process or there's a problem you didn't catch before. Once an LP is live I will not make formatting/grammar/typo/etc edits in future if you find some issue.
• I can fetch forums-archived threads without any problems, so if your LP is good to go with no edits needed then you can submit it to me directly.
• If your thread is forums-archived and you need to edit it, then you can move it to the SSLP test poster and I can archive just as well from there. Bear in mind that links have to be self-consistent, so it's fine to leave links to the original forums threads and only put the edited updates on the test poster, but you must update your TOC to reflect those new links. You can't tell me "update 5 should come from here instead". If you do end up doing this, please send me a link to the original thread as well as the revised OP.
• In general - links to the SSLP test poster are just fine and I don't care if your TOC links to that or the thread itself, I have it set up so the archive scripts will consume both.
• If you want to have the first couple of posts combined into the archive page that's fine - this is common for a fanart post etc. Just be reasonable - if you have 4 posts with thousands of words and loads of embedded images that will be too much for the archive landing page. Split it up into sections (on the test poster if needed) and add a TOC if you didn't have one before.
• The archive has a maximum limit of 900px width for images. Any images that embedded inline (i.e. linked images are exempt) should be under this dimension. I can run an automated pass to resize down all over-sized images but be sure that this is OK with you. If not, you need to resize or timg your images and edit the posts manually - see above about corrections.
• If you want a blurb like on the main page then you need to provide me a 160x120 PNG or JPG uploaded to https://lpix.org and a 1-2 sentence paragraph.
I'm not a stickler for what the paragraph is, but it should be at least a couple of good sentences that roughly match the size of the blurbs on the front page. It doesn't have to fill the box but nothing super short like "Hi, mum! This is my LP!" even if that is two sentences, and nothing really long which would overflow the bounds by a ton.
Please upload the blurb image to lpix and email me the link. If you attach the image in your email then I need to save it to disk, upload it, and put that link into the script.

• All updates in the thread must be linked in the central TOC. Any post you want to be included must be linked in some way from the TOC.
• This doesn't mean a single batch of links, you can separate them out with headers for different bits of the game like lava world vs. ice world. You can also have stuff like: link (text that's not part of the link).
• One line - one link. You can't have two updates linked from the same line like: Update 6: Let's go exploring (Part 2)
• Similarly, one update should not have multiple links to it. If you have two updates in a single post then you need to have just one TOC entry for that post. Split it up, or come up with a joint title and single link. Don't link the same update from multiple places in your TOC.
• In particular there is only one order. A user clicking previous and next in the updates should read through in precisely the same order as your TOC. In particular this means that if e.g. there were two campaigns in your game and you alternated posts between them, it is not allowed to have the users read through in posting order while having the campaigns separated in your TOC. Decide which is most important and stick to it - either a TOC with mixed campaigns read in interleaved order, or a TOC with separated campaigns and read in separate order.
• If the links in your table of contents are images, then in your submission ensure you include a plain text list of update names, in order. Even if the links don't have text the update pages have to have titles, so I need a list of names for the updates. Sometimes the scripts can automatically pick out names but often they can't, so it's better for you to always provide me a list of names in easily copy-pastable format. You should have precisely the same number of names as links in your TOC.
• On a related note, if your table of contents follows a format where you have a "Level 5" header and then several links below that which are just "Part 1", "Part 2", etc, please do the same as above - provide me an ordered list of titles which have that all combined into "Level 5 - Part 1", "Level 5 - Part 2", etc, which will be used for the update page titles themselves.

• When doing single page links with "perpage=1" do it with "userid=12345" to filter the thread to your posts like this as the scripts fetch only your posts in the thread by default. It's also fine to use "showpost=493936420" style links like this or even links to the main thread with anchors like this, which the latest scripts can handle properly.
• If you link to posts by another author, or your thread has multiple authors, tell me up front and tell me all usernames I should fetch. Otherwise posts from anyone but the OP won't be fetched.
• Be aware of double-posted updates. If your update went over the character limit for a single post so you double-posted back to back, both posts must be linked in your TOC with proper titles as above. Otherwise the second post won't be included.
• A bit of a fuzzy rule - if you have updates numbered Update 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4 then that numbering will only show up in the TOC. On the update pages it will be replaced with the archive's numbering Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The reason for this is that a) users need a consistent page number, and b) it would be really confusing to see "Part 5: Update 4". There's leeway in this, if your updates have roman numerals or something else more than simple numbering then you'll get "Part 5: Update IV" as it's more distinct.
• Your update titles aka TOC entries shouldn't contain smilies (as these can't go into page titles). They should be either title case or normal case, not ALLUPPERCASE.