State of the Forum

whitewhiskey

Well-Known Member
I hope I'm still alive or this is getting weird
 

whitewhiskey

Well-Known Member
I'm an Unearthed Arcana Warlock Patron?
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
Anyone have an invite to the Discord? I've long since lost sight of where the last invite was, and that has probably expired by now
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
Do most old members think that TFF is defunct, or do they no longer care?

I haven't seen much movement here since before the forum went under for a month or two.
 

Innortal

Well-Known Member
Do most old members think that TFF is defunct, or do they no longer care?

I haven't seen much movement here since before the forum went under for a month or two.
A few pics, but I haven't had much time to write at all, taking care of my daughter. Hope to get back into it, as I have muses singing.

But not sure if they made a new forum or not.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
If they made a new forum, I'm not aware of it...

The only new story I've seen in the portions I monitor is the one in the lemon section by Lord Ra...

I'm a bit ticked the changed the internal link format a while back. It ruined my direct links. I've since fixed most of them.
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
New forum? No, this here is the (restored) forum.

No, I'm talking about when TFF went under last summer (with Ero-Sennin working to restore it); then, many people, even long-time members, disappeared never to be seen again. Unless I'm misremembering things and there were just as few people around, even before then.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
Most of us are on discord, ever since ero nuked our member numbers.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
Huh? I thought that discord site was only temporary... Only went to it a couple times while the forum was down and not once since the forum came back. My link to it does not even work anymore (I just checked, all get is a white page).

I prefer sites like this to that discord site anyway, at least how it appeared when I went to it.
 

chronodekar

Obsessively signs his posts
Staff member
I lurk on discord. And seem to do more lurking around here myself, besides the odd clean up jobs.

-chronodekar
 

Mick

Well-Known Member
Can't speak for others ever since the group I was with broke up but I had basically given up all forms of social activity.

So I've pretty much not been doing anything at all.
 

whitewhiskey

Well-Known Member
I'm hoping to get back into things with the coming new year. One of my resolutions is writing more, so this forum kind of helps with that in a way a Discord server can't. Might join the server later though
 
April Fool's!

The Ero-Sennin

The Eyes of Heaven
Staff member
The real joke here is that it has taken me this freaking long to do this, but welcome friends to the newly and (mostly) neatly reorganized TFF! The changes are fairly obvious in case you haven't noticed them. The separate series sections:

Bleach
Naruto
Evangelion
Ranma ½
Akamatsuverse
Digimon
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Sailor Moon

Have all been rolled into the Anime/Manga section. Pins have been unchanged so pinned threads in their main sections should be showing up on the first page of the appropriate section. Old Series have also been Thread Prefixed so you can find them easier... though I'll admit I messed up with the Sailor Moon section and those prefixes are being worked on. Fortunately that wasn't a large section to begin with.

What was a large section was Harry Potter, which can now be found in the Book Fanfiction forum.

The Type-Moon section has been renamed the Nasuverse section, and it has been left alone because there's so much Fate and related stuff out there covering different media and genre.

Going forward, we want feedback on the change, and suggestions regarding what we should add as we work on getting this beast back on its feet. For right now, I'm definitely open to taking a look at series prefixes so that stories and threads are even easier to find going forward, restructuring the Restricted Section, and definitely not open to reverting back to the old arrangement.
 
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dapster

Well-Known Member
Much like in the restricted forum, you might want them sorted into sub-forums. Otherwise, looks nice to me.
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
Much like in the restricted forum, you might want them sorted into sub-forums. Otherwise, looks nice to me.
Seconding this. Would make it a lot easier to find seperate sections.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
Was never a fan of this merging sections concept, but had resigned myself to this happpening regardless at some point a long time ago, it was favored by too many of the then mods for it to completely disappear.

The idea, of being able to go to a section, and see material for just that series or grouping of series, made far more sense to me than variations on the new setup that was proposed, which was why I had argued against it every time it came up for discussion.
 
Spammer alert, spamming stuff in General Links. Not clicking on any of them, thanks. Probably all trojans and other malware.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
Huh, I guess I never actually gave feedback on the forum changes.

My feedback is thus: What the fuck. Like four people on the forums wanted this, and everyone else didn't. No amount of fucking up people's ability to find the stories or sections they want- and make no mistake, the only thing you've done here is make TFF's user experience worse for everyone, against the explicit wishes of most of the forum at that- is going to bring TFF back to life. That requires people actively writing and using TFF, and not posting all their shit on competing forums.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
Would it be possible to get some more smilies added?
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
FYI: Today I'm getting warnings in both Edge and Firefox that the site security certificate has expired and the site is considered unsafe.

Edge:
This server could not prove that it is thefanfictionforum.net; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. Your computer's clock is currently set to Sunday, January 30, 2022. Does that look right? If not, you should correct your system's clock and then refresh this page.

FireFox:
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to thefanfictionforum.net. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time.

It’s likely the website’s certificate is expired, which prevents Firefox from connecting securely. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

What can you do about it?

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