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Recycling Bin and In & Out Updates

Recycling Bin Moves To Upgraded Membership
We're pleased to announce that use of the Recycling Bin is now a standard part of Writing.Com's Upgraded Membership. This feature, which was previously available only to Premium Membership+, catches all items deleted from one's portfolio and hangs onto them.

Items can be restored from the Recycling Bin simply by moving them out and back into your portfolio. This should cut down on some of the "Oops" moments our members have had.

Items in your Recycling Bin do still count towards your item totals. You can, however, instantly purge your recycling bin at any time by clicking the Purge Recycling Bin link on your My Portfolio page.


New Features for In & Out Items
In & Outs are one of the most flexible item types on Writing.Com. We've made the following improvements to make them even more useful:

Direct Follow Ups: This new setting determines whether posters to the In & Out may make multiple posts in immediate succession. If this is set to Disallow, once a member posts to the In & Out, they will have to wait until at least one other person posts before they may post again. This setting defaults to "Allow" where no additional posting restrictions are imposed.

Post Limiting: This setting determines how often a member may post to an In & Out. If a limit is specified, members will not be able to add another post if they already have that number of posts showing within the In & Out.

Self Deletion: This setting determines whether posters to the In & Out may delete their own
submissions.

Duplicate Item Check: In the Require Item IDs setting, In & Out owners can ensure that each item may only be posted once per page of entries.

Submission Message Area: This section allows you to create a custom message to leave just above the form where members can submit to your In & Out. This message is limited to 5,000 characters and can be used to remind your posters or rules, wish them luck, give them examples, etc.