FanFiction.NET issues
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I think the real problem is the place where they store all those images. When I finally managed to get to the page I wanted, I noticed that the image the authors use was lagging like hell. So that server is messing up the traffic when you're trying to navigate fanfiction.net, causing it to lag like hell. (This is the conclusion I came to based on what I could see)
Currently, none of the direct category links I have work... they give an error, and the category links in the site itself, do not give an error, but return that there are no stories...
That implies FF.NET is in the process of *again* mucking with the category links for stories and crossover stories... last time did that it mucked up the feeds.
It also means I'll have to reset all mine... Fortunately, I only have some 24 of them. But that means 24 links, and 24 feeds.
That implies FF.NET is in the process of *again* mucking with the category links for stories and crossover stories... last time did that it mucked up the feeds.
It also means I'll have to reset all mine... Fortunately, I only have some 24 of them. But that means 24 links, and 24 feeds.
It is up for me... though I have been getting sporadic errors...
More worrisome, the ATOM feeds are not currently reliable... I know at least one story that is only showing now as updated after multiple checks of the feed system that updated some 10 hours prior. Another story I saw updated that I track has not shown at all yet in the feeds. Generally, the feeds are within some 15 minutes of the update being posted.
Be aware that if the ATOM feeds are not reliable, the email alert system may not be as well. Anyone using them and not double checking sections manually may miss updates.
More worrisome, the ATOM feeds are not currently reliable... I know at least one story that is only showing now as updated after multiple checks of the feed system that updated some 10 hours prior. Another story I saw updated that I track has not shown at all yet in the feeds. Generally, the feeds are within some 15 minutes of the update being posted.
Be aware that if the ATOM feeds are not reliable, the email alert system may not be as well. Anyone using them and not double checking sections manually may miss updates.
Hmmm... that is interesting... I never overly cared for the thumbnail images allowed for stories due to the way they work, not so much begrudge the authors having them.
But, I noticed FF.NET seems to have recenetly changed how they work. It used to be hovering on it increases the size slightly, but could bring them up zoomed in a window of its own by clicking on the image itself. Now hovering on it still increases the size slightly, but clicking it takes to the story.
But, I noticed FF.NET seems to have recenetly changed how they work. It used to be hovering on it increases the size slightly, but could bring them up zoomed in a window of its own by clicking on the image itself. Now hovering on it still increases the size slightly, but clicking it takes to the story.
Theories:
According to isitdownrightnow dot com, fanfiction.net is closed for maintenance. However, how do they know that? Possibly because the server is switched off rather than 'not working'. Or maybe those systems have a setting that can be read.
If maintenance, maybe the admin only just got round to fixing the stats not working problem because they didn't know (unlikely because there are numerous threads in different forums there saying users had emailed them several times about the problem which lasted 8 days)
Or... admin are sick of complaints and are punishing us.
Or... the owner is negotiating a sale of the website and really doesn't care anymore.
Or... the owner never did really care.
According to isitdownrightnow dot com, fanfiction.net is closed for maintenance. However, how do they know that? Possibly because the server is switched off rather than 'not working'. Or maybe those systems have a setting that can be read.
If maintenance, maybe the admin only just got round to fixing the stats not working problem because they didn't know (unlikely because there are numerous threads in different forums there saying users had emailed them several times about the problem which lasted 8 days)
Or... admin are sick of complaints and are punishing us.
Or... the owner is negotiating a sale of the website and really doesn't care anymore.
Or... the owner never did really care.
It has been a while but I've mucked with ArchiveOfOurOwn a bit... here are some random observations I made the last time I used it.
Striked me as a bit of a odd mishmash of FanFiction.NET, MediaMiner.ORG, and FicWad.COM feature sets.
The direct link system is a bit convoluted, in that you can have multiple links in differing formats take you to the same information.
Basically boiled down though, you do have site, story, author and chapter links available as link options. There are category links as well, but I do not think it has crossover category links, or not that I'm aware of (It does support crossover category tagging, just not crossover category links).
If you have a NC-17 story, or otherwise graphic story noted as such, it may force a log in on readers, or at least it used to.
There is a download option on stories, but it is useless for my own purposes so I do not use it... It does not offer TXT as a available format.
Like FanFiction.NET, links from it can, or at least used to, be able to be fed into downloaders like FanFictionDownloader.NET.
I think the tagging is potentially better than FF.NET, but I find it overused. Which to be fare, is an issue in some cases even on FF.NET these days.
One detraction for me is as far as I know, it does not have RSS or ATOM feed support. It does have a subscription mail update system like FanFiction.NET for author and stories. Worthless to me as I would not want near that much email. Feeds are much, much, better.
All that is from a reader standpoint and a pure technical standpoint though, and you may not care about any of that. How that translates as an author experience though I could not say.
Striked me as a bit of a odd mishmash of FanFiction.NET, MediaMiner.ORG, and FicWad.COM feature sets.
The direct link system is a bit convoluted, in that you can have multiple links in differing formats take you to the same information.
Basically boiled down though, you do have site, story, author and chapter links available as link options. There are category links as well, but I do not think it has crossover category links, or not that I'm aware of (It does support crossover category tagging, just not crossover category links).
If you have a NC-17 story, or otherwise graphic story noted as such, it may force a log in on readers, or at least it used to.
There is a download option on stories, but it is useless for my own purposes so I do not use it... It does not offer TXT as a available format.
Like FanFiction.NET, links from it can, or at least used to, be able to be fed into downloaders like FanFictionDownloader.NET.
I think the tagging is potentially better than FF.NET, but I find it overused. Which to be fare, is an issue in some cases even on FF.NET these days.
One detraction for me is as far as I know, it does not have RSS or ATOM feed support. It does have a subscription mail update system like FanFiction.NET for author and stories. Worthless to me as I would not want near that much email. Feeds are much, much, better.
All that is from a reader standpoint and a pure technical standpoint though, and you may not care about any of that. How that translates as an author experience though I could not say.
I'm on the waiting list to join (3 days) but here are my observations after visiting there many times over the last few weeks:
Filtering is cluttered and messy, for instance, the age ratings are not defined and you can't select general audience AND teens but have to list them separately. But the search option is far better than fanfiction.net. However, that too has problems. I entered Harry/Hermione OR Harry/Luna and got Hermione/Luna! Also you can't exclude crossovers and excluding slash is near impossible too. Also, you can't realistically exclude characters you hate because many authors list dozens of subsidiary characters so you finish up with almost no stories. I mean, if you want to maximise your stories exposure then you'd list every Harry Potter character that exists including the giant squid, even if they're not even in it, right? What I mean is, at FFN, if Draco is listed below the summary then you know he'll be a prominent character so you can exclude stories based around him. But many stories on AO3 list Draco even if he's only mentioned briefly in one scene (which is most Harry Potter stories if set at Hogwarts) so you get few returns.
That said, maybe with time and experimenting it could be tolerable. The main thing is, they are more open than FFN.
Filtering is cluttered and messy, for instance, the age ratings are not defined and you can't select general audience AND teens but have to list them separately. But the search option is far better than fanfiction.net. However, that too has problems. I entered Harry/Hermione OR Harry/Luna and got Hermione/Luna! Also you can't exclude crossovers and excluding slash is near impossible too. Also, you can't realistically exclude characters you hate because many authors list dozens of subsidiary characters so you finish up with almost no stories. I mean, if you want to maximise your stories exposure then you'd list every Harry Potter character that exists including the giant squid, even if they're not even in it, right? What I mean is, at FFN, if Draco is listed below the summary then you know he'll be a prominent character so you can exclude stories based around him. But many stories on AO3 list Draco even if he's only mentioned briefly in one scene (which is most Harry Potter stories if set at Hogwarts) so you get few returns.
That said, maybe with time and experimenting it could be tolerable. The main thing is, they are more open than FFN.