Ah, fanfiction.net, thou art so vexing...

[valis2]

Y'know, I know that ffnet has its problems.

But still, it is wonderful to have a community so large where I can upload fics so easily. And sometimes I do find interesting fics there.

Today's message (I am not making this up):

November 24th, 2004 -- We have confirmed a serious bug which corrupted many entries dated pre-2003 during our last upgrade. A recovery process has been started to resolve this issue. Please bare with us as FanFiction.Net return to read-only access.

*sigh* Sad as it is that many entries were mangled, it is even sadder that it encourages yet more rampant misspelling of "bear".

Comments

[bob-the-mighty.livejournal.com]

Heh...

BAAAAAAARRRRRRRE!!!!!!!!!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

You always make me crack up.

Are you stopping by this week? Today? Hmmm?

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they think everyone getting nekkid will speed up the repairs.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...wouldn't that just distract everyone and delay the repairs even further? Or are they counting on everyone being so...occupied that they don't notice that it isn't fixed yet?

[saruwatari.livejournal.com]

... *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

[violet_quill]

Please bare with us as FanFiction.Net return to read-only access.

Apparently they think that things will go much faster if their users are naked. Hmmm.

[rickfan37.livejournal.com]

Please bare with us

But I thought they'd banned NC17 fics??

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

yeah, I noticed a couple days ago that the first chapters of QE4SG and Tragic Circle were missing. (Link there, no text.)

I haven't checked to see if they've fixed it yet but I was very vexed.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

And I'm worried that some of the better pre-2003 fics will disappear or be mangled forever, because their writers have abandoned fanfic.

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

luckily mine seem to be fixed. Not sure about the pre 2003 ones though :(

[logospilgrim.livejournal.com]

~it is even sadder that it encourages yet more rampant misspelling of "bear"~

*winces*

Another spelling mistake that grates on my grammatical nerves: "here, here" instead of "hear, hear" (re: "hear ye, hear ye").

[valis2.livejournal.com]

One of the most mind-boggling ones is waste instead of waist...

He put his arm around her waste...

I can't believe how many times I've seen that one.

[aramintasnape.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, someone obviously didn't get that one beta-read, lol! FFnet are ok when they are not closing your account for no reason and ignoring your e-mails, ggggrrrrrrr!!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Have you had that happen? They closed your account?!

I have heard that they don't investigate...at the first sound of trouble, they just delete you. Don't know how true that is.

[aramintasnape.livejournal.com]

Yes, one day I tried to log in to post a new chapter of my story and...zilch! 'This account is no longer active'. Silly me, I thought it was just an error and that a simple e-mail request would put it right. But no. I never got any reply to the four or five mails I sent. And I've no idea why they deleted my stuff - only thing I can think of is that the sex scenes were too 'hot', but since I based my original 'R' rating for that fic solely on what I read at ffnet in the first place, all I can say is that if they deleted mine for that reason, there's a hell of a lot of stuff on there that shouldn't be! So I then migrated to aff and SH, but a couple of months later we changed our Internet provider and e-mail addresses, so I was able to open a new account at ff using the new address and a new author name. Don't really post much over there any more though - I much prefer SH. I've heard of this happening to a few other people as well - accounts closed without warning or request that something be removed/edited, then no response when they tried to find out why. That's one of the reasons I prefer SH - their admins are always very helpful, and quick to respond to queries!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I keep worrying about that...hopefuly no one will complain...but I won't hold my breath.

Even if they do, I still have faorg and SH, so I should be fine. Though I'd have to find a place for my Mummy fics. Mmm...Ardeth Bay...