Solution to Story Updates

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From:  http://forum.fanfiction.net/forum/Fanfic_Help_Desk/20103/

And specifically this post:  http://forum.fanfiction.net/topic/20103/40031188/1/   

Credit to the first people to tell us here of this work-around goes to Effiron and Slashguy, who built off of each other's ideas.

Hi, people of Fanfiction. While the issue has not yet been fixed and FF Support hasn't replied to our numerous reports, there IS a way to still update stories:

TO UPDATE AN EXISTING STORY
1. Login and go to 'My Stories' page as usual
2. Click in the story you wish to update
3. The error will come up as usual, with an address like this displayed: http://login.fanfiction.net/story/story_edit_property.php?storyid=[series of numbers]
4. While on that page, simply go to your address bar and replace 'property' with 'content'. Change nothing else.
6. Your address bar should now look like this: http://login.fanfiction.net/story/story_edit_content.php?storyid=[series of numbers]
7. You should now be able to update your stories normally.
This is currently the only way to update stories in the larger fandoms, which are the only ones affected by this bug.

TO POST A NEW STORY
1. Post the story like normal in a category that is working--pick a random one that is small.
2. Go to My Stories, click on the story, and edit the category in Properties.
3. Click Submit. You will get an error message; don't worry about it. It has changed.
It should be noted that you cannot change the character filters after this until the problem has been fixed.