FanFiction.NET issues

[MastaofBitches]

You also don't get emails at all if you're using a hotmail account.

 

[Nanya]

I have not had any issues, is it still occurring? And what exactly are the issues? Note I do not subscribe to any emaill updates, so if that is the issue I would not know it.

No, the screen would be white and I couldn't see anything, but it was still there, I could move my cursor over "links" and the hyperlink would appear at the bottom of the screen. Now it's saying i need to enable javascript to continue.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Nope, definitely not.

 

[Nanya]

I tried a different browser and it worked just fine.

 

[Nanya]

Well, now I can't even read any fics on FF.Net. Stuck on a cloudflare loop.

 

[Jimbobob5536]

Huh.
I'm not having any issues atm.
Using Firefox.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Hmmm... problems for me seem limited to some of the most recently updated stories.

Nabya, I can see yours, and even go into it, but it is NOT correct. Currently for me it shows 139 chapters in the chapter drop down... but shows only 132 chapters in the story description section at the top of screen...

A couple other new stories I see the story, but get a not present box when going into them.

Edit: using Firefox,

 

[mgsaintz]

The loops can happen because of extension or addon for the browser, try disabling them to find the culprit.

 

[Zetas]

Well FF.net has crapped the bed...again.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Well FF.net has crapped the bed...again.

Yup, no stories loading, been that way for at least a couple hours now getting stuck on the verification code that we are real people...

I was hoping it would resolve itself. I'm not too affected at the moment, been doing other things, like reading off of AOOO and viewing some Shadow Chronicles Game Videos I downloaded a while back from YouTube. They give interesting additional plots and events not in the series, and a number of them cover the 2-3 year gap between them leaving Cid and meeting back up in the Capital...

 

[Zetas]

@PCHeintz72 It still screwing up is giving me time to catch up watching the dvd collection of the Venture Bro's that i bought a few weeks ago, so i'll count it as at least a partial win, hell i finally had the time and desire to finish Pokemon Scarlet.

 

[PCHeintz72]

For me it came back I think arong 1:00am my time, or a couple hours after my prior post.

 

[PCHeintz72]

FanFiction.NET seems to be having 'hiccups', for lack of a better term, in that it is randomly erroring. Some links work fine, and on others I'm getting the following on seemingly random links:

Web server is returning an unknown error Error code 520

 

[chronodekar]

That is unfortunate to hear.

-chronodekar

 

[PCHeintz72]

That is unfortunate to hear.

-chronodekar

Seems to be better today, at least for me...

 

[DaJuggernaut]

I mentioned this on the discord the other day, but I'll bring it here too. Apparently ff.net's story/author email alerts for gmail are and have been down since the 10th. I think I saw some comment on Twitter that it's been down for a different email service since mid September.

 

[mgsaintz]

There's a notice to white list their bot in your email settings, problem is that this is something they need to fix on their end since the email providers are more than likely blocking their mail and is not even hitting the spam folders.

 

[PCHeintz72]

While browsing the site I'm currently experiencing a repeat of the errors I was getting back on Sept 30th.... Keep getting the following on any story link I try:

Web server is returning an unknown error Error code 520

 

[PCHeintz72]

Well... The direct links seem working again for me, except one so far. However, most of the category links are non-functional and bringing up blank screens with multiple drop down selection boxes.

 

[AoMythology]

Well... The direct links seem working again for me, except one so far. However, most of the category links are non-functional and bringing up blank screens with multiple drop down selection boxes.

There's also the fact email updates still don't work, at least in my Gmail account.

 

[PCHeintz72]

I never used email updates, so cannot say I'd ever notice when they go up or down...

Currently the category links are acting kind of bizarre... Some are coming up fine, some are showing as completely blank, and some are instead of bringing up the category are pringing up like i said a screen with multiple drop down boxes...

I'm betting FanFiction.NET is in the process of overhauling its category links, and the old ones are likely doing random things with the new expected format... If this keeps up I'll try recreating them from scratch and see what the format differences are.

 

[DaJuggernaut]

It looks like email alerts may be working again, because I got a just got a couple dozen in my inbox.

 

[PCHeintz72]

Hmmm... I cannot seem to get any FanFiction.NET pages to come up for me... Neither category nor specific story links seem to work...

The error message is inconsistent, sometimes unable to connect, and sometimes unable to load page...

 

[DaJuggernaut]

Apparently there's a DNS issue and they're working on it.

 

[PCHeintz72]

It came back... not sure exactly when, but it has been working since around 2:30PM EST.