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Post by ginnyrules27 on Jun 3, 2012 21:25:07 GMT -5
Do you think that if I updated one of my non-Reading the Books stories, it would draw attention to my actual Reading the Books stories? I've got a lot of non-RtB stories but since the purge started, I've been too scared to update.
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Post by viralic1 on Jun 3, 2012 22:50:11 GMT -5
I've heard the purge is over, but as long as you back it up, the worst they can do is temporarily remove it from the site. Or you can update your non-reading the books, and then have a link to this site or another where you update your reading the books fic.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 3, 2012 23:47:25 GMT -5
It's hard to say anything, as I don't understand the people behind the purge at all! Viralic1 may be right about updating rather the other, non-reading fics on FFN right now. (Here is another matter altogether, of course  ) But make sure that you have all of your stuff saved at your own PC, just in case, so you don't lose anything and have to retrieve it from other people's copies. Maybe watch a few more days beyond the weekend if the purge continues. If it does, I'm not sure it is worth the bother to update there at all, at least the reading stories. If not, then you can post in a few days. But frankly, I am sure even if they stopped for now, the whole mess will return in a few months. It isn't the first time this happens, and it will not be the last time. So my first advice to any author with CR or M-rated stories would be: Backup, backup, backup. |
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Post by Marwana on Jun 4, 2012 9:25:15 GMT -5
As far as I've noticed they (meaning the people who delete everything) don't actually check the fandom pages themselves. Because if they did a lot more stories would have been deleted.
But a back-up is always smart^^
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Post by crazyloonymoon on Jun 4, 2012 12:19:39 GMT -5
Don't update yet. Two groups are working in tandem to delete, delete and delete some more. Critics United and Fanfiction Rennaissance. (The last one makes me laugh. Fanfiction Rennaissance? More likely Fanfiction Middle Ages!)
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Post by Serena R. Snape on Jun 4, 2012 13:32:54 GMT -5
Don't update yet. Two groups are working in tandem to delete, delete and delete some more. Critics United and Fanfiction Rennaissance. (The last one makes me laugh. Fanfiction Rennaissance? More likely Fanfiction Middle Ages!) more like Fanfiction Dark Ages if this continues.  |
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Post by viralic1 on Jun 4, 2012 13:36:08 GMT -5
Does anyone else know of any fairly popular fanfiction sites? I'm really starting to dislike things about FF, but I don't want to delete my story.
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 4, 2012 13:59:21 GMT -5
The last one makes me laugh. Fanfiction Rennaissance? More likely Fanfiction Middle Ages!) LOL - true! Renaissance means Rebirth in French, after all, and what they do is pretty much the opposite. Fanfiction Crusade would be another nice term. Does anyone else know of any fairly popular fanfiction sites? I'm really starting to dislike things about FF, but I don't want to delete my story. Not really, the good ones I know are not HP archives. But I suspect that some of the others are going to skyrocket in popularity, seeing that FFN is causing a mass exodus. It might be worth it to collect some interesting links you stumble over in AN, reviews, profiles etc. and watch these sites. Might help to settle on a better source. |
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Post by DoodleJanus on Jun 4, 2012 14:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by Marwana on Jun 4, 2012 14:02:39 GMT -5
Don't update yet. Two groups are working in tandem to delete, delete and delete some more. Critics United and Fanfiction Rennaissance. (The last one makes me laugh. Fanfiction Rennaissance? More likely Fanfiction Middle Ages!) more like Fanfiction Dark Ages if this continues. Actually the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages are the same Ages... If they keep this up no one will use FF.net again, or their sister site... |
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Post by crazyloonymoon on Jun 4, 2012 14:08:10 GMT -5
AO3 (Archives of our Own) is awesome. You can either upload via HTLM (so for those who saved their stories that way, no need to re-translate the whole thing), have a lot of tags which makes searching for a story easier AND they don't have a policy like ff.net.
Before, you could upload via and already existing story from another site, but ff.net blocked this function. I'm a member there as a back-up but I'm thinking of going there permanently.
Other sites that exist are livejournal, tumblr, yahoo groups.
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Post by ginnyrules27 on Jun 4, 2012 14:34:22 GMT -5
I'm thinking of moving my stories to yourfanfiction. Granted, there aren't a lot of categories at the moment but if you email the administrators, they'll add the category you requested and they'll be prompt in responding to your email too.
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Post by crazyloonymoon on Jun 4, 2012 14:35:24 GMT -5
O.O that sounds promising.
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Silvertongue
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 4, 2012 14:37:10 GMT -5
lets hope it stays like that and isn't just because they're so small.
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Post by Serena R. Snape on Jun 4, 2012 14:50:44 GMT -5
I'm on Wattpad (they have a growing community of fanfiction readers!), YourFanfiction and HP Fandom for now. I also sent an e-mail to join the AO3 (since it's invite only at the moment).
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Post by crazyloonymoon on Jun 4, 2012 14:52:41 GMT -5
Once your in AO3, your in for good. The Beta section is even better.
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Post by lucyolsen on Jun 4, 2012 16:43:34 GMT -5
But there are nearly 13,000 people on the waiting list for an AO3 account...
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 4, 2012 17:28:00 GMT -5
....for real? That's insane. And I'm sure it's not that new because I've been hearing about it for a while.
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Post by biakit on Jun 4, 2012 17:30:48 GMT -5
I send my request in March I guess and by the end of May I already could sign up, but I didn't only recently I made an account because of these problems we're having at ff.net.
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) But make sure that you have all of your stuff saved at your own PC, just in case, so you don't lose anything and have to retrieve it from other people's copies.
