No longer able to highlight text in fics

[twitchy-bunnies.livejournal.com]

Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.

10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in a coming update."

http://blog.fictionpress.com/2013/10/11/languages-for-navigation/#comments

No clue why they're just now telling us this, but hallelujah at it being optional \o/

Comments

[roeskva]

It's same here too. Which is actually pretty annoying, as I post on ffnet first, and then copy-paste my fic on another archive - this is the only way I have found to make that archive not screw up my formatting. Nothing else seems to work.

Fortunately, the block on ffnet can easily be circumvented. The easiest thing in firefox (probably work other places as well), is to click "View" -> "Page style" -> "No style".

Yes, the top of the page and such looks ugly, but the fic itself is fine :) Works for me, at least.

[twitchy-bunnies.livejournal.com]

Just tried this out and it worked for me as well; thank you ;DD

[magicamethyst80.livejournal.com]

I know I sound silly for asking, but where is "view."

[roeskva]

The menu bar at the top of the browser window.

[magicamethyst80.livejournal.com]

The one that says "Firefox," sorry to do this to you.
Actually just found it, now I have my options back!

[roeskva]

Glad you got it to work :)

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks. That's way better than what I come up with. I'm copying stories to my mobile book reader and the block is pretty annoyng

[a-boleyn.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm updating my archived fics by appending new chapters to previous ones and now I can do it again.

[bluefirebird.livejournal.com]

I recommend this tool for archiving stories,
http://www.fanfictiondownloader.net/ (http://www.fanfictiondownloader.net/) works with WWOMB & AO3 too plus a number of fandom specific sites.

I only save in html format, so can't vouch for any of the other formats.
I used to bookmark stories and then realised that so many excellent ones (especially on FFnet) were getting deleted that I save first and ask questions later now!

Once installed save the entire story in a few clicks, without worrying which chapters have been updated since you last looked.



Sorry to spam the comments here by reply to several people individually - and I have no connection with the author of the program.

[hanfastolfe.livejournal.com]

Also I found out that disabling Javascript on the ff.n site gets rid of the lack of copypasta ability. Sorry I'm late to the party.