FanFiction.NET issues

I'm still getting 521 errors for some chapters across various stories. I'm guessing it depends on the servers they're being hosted on.
 

psjd

Well-Known Member
Have you checked if your alert supscription is still selected?
Because of some nonsense this needs to be reconfirmed every 6 months or they are deactivated.
 

DaJuggernaut

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It's still on. Checked their Twitter, and people have been reporting the issue for the past 3-4 days.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
I've been having issues getting into FF.NET all day today... anyone else having issues: All I get going to any page in FireFox is "Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site."

Is It Down Right Now is also stating it is non-functional...
 

DaJuggernaut

Well-Known Member
It's been down since around yesterday afternoon. If you have the app, you'll still have access.
 
According to FictionPress on X, it seems to be a DNS issue they don't have direct control over.
 

DaJuggernaut

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Hilarious that this is the fastest they've responded to an issue, but only when it's out of their control. When it's on their end (no email alerts/captcha loops) they're silent for weeks if not months on end.
 
I absolutely refuse to use the app, but the mobile site doesn't seem to be affected as much by the issues.
 

PCHeintz72

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I absolutely refuse to use the app, but the mobile site doesn't seem to be affected as much by the issues.
I have neither the app, nor do I ever knowingly go to the mobile site link... I'll wait it out... no shortage of material i can either read or reread.

I recently picked up the entire available Failure Frame light novel series, I'm up to book 5, so they will tide me over a few days.... I also have a new loners Life in Another world light novel as a new volume released this week i had pre-ordered.
 
It's back up for the past hour now, as of this post. No idea if that means it's been restored or if this is just another temporary blip.
 

PCHeintz72

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I've noticed some randomness over the last day and a half. Sometimes the latest chapter to a story will appear for a while, disappear for a while, and reappear, in a repeating cycle. I've seen this on at least 2 stories.
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
E-mails for story updates seem to have started working once again on ffnet.
...
Update: it was chapter 4 for a fic that has reached 11 chapters plus the latest chapter of a fic that was last updated in June. Yeah... :rolleyes:
 
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PCHeintz72

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I've never used story updates.... but I used to use the ATOM feed update system they had.
 
Getting 503 errors for individual chapters across disparate stories. Makes me wonder if a server or two are down.

EDIT: Some more checking also yields a couple of authors' pages entirely blanked by 503.
 

BtML

Well-Known Member
It does go away after a while, but I have no real idea wtf is going on.
 

PCHeintz72

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I think either one or more servers are down or out of sync, I've had sporadic access with some categories not responding at all, and at least one review never got pushed.
 
Getting 520 errors for some individual chapters across disparate stories. I guess one of the servers face-planted again.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
Getting 520 errors for some individual chapters across disparate stories. I guess one of the servers face-planted again.
I've not seen any issues myself... yet. I do wish they would finally get to fixing their ATOM feeds though... They've been broke for years. Last time I emailed them, I never got a response.
 
what happened to this site? It seems rather dead as most posts are from at least 1-2 years ago and most of the members seem to have left back in the early 00's.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
Many are instead on the TFF discord server. Since I do not go there, could not say how active it is.
 
We have a Discord server?
 
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