Technically...

When you add the 38 challenge entries that we're not yet allowed to see to the 19,964 items that we are allowed to see, the result is an integer > 20,000. Just saying...

Plus there's another 5 challenge entries sitting in my folder waiting to be loaded but also the possibility of a 15 part serial being removed. Anyway, I'm keeping our 20,000 banner in the LSF basement until the site info bar actually says "There are 20,000 items in the library" ... almost there though.

Well then, just saying... sort of almost congratulations to all involved (not that I myself would EVER suggest than mere numbers have any significance whatsoever)

I thought the deadline for story channels was the end of the month and ...

Wait! Are you saying that some people are getting their stories in well before the deadline?

Goodgulf

Sounds like cheating to me! Those people will all get their stories listed at the top of the list, with more views, and more votes, and...

... so is it too late to submit my story early too?

The story order is regularly changed and my understanding is that it's random.

That's correct, the default sort order is random and changes each time the challenge voting page is visited. However, when I suggested making it exclusively random I received death threats and was forced to offer the option to return the sort order to 'date loaded'.

I apologized profusely for that, so why bring it up again?

19,999? OK, now Februs is just playing with us!

He's probably waiting for a really great story to load as the 20,000th. I'll have to go write one.