ffdotnetrants | I got to log in! AND POST

Hello! I just wanted to tell people that I have managed to log into FF.net AND update not only my profile but also my story as well! I though I'd better share the news and tell people how I did it. FF.net IS really is annoying and I know there's been problems at the site before and it can get really, really, really frustrating but dang it if I can't live without it! It's my drug of choice!

Okay, first to log in: when it took me to that "not in service" page, I just continued to hit the refresh button every time I walked by the computer until it took me to the main page.

Next, I went to my document manager and again tried to upload my new document. This went on for like, three hours.

Deciding to try my profile, I went to the "edit profile page" and after hitting the refresh button a million times again, I was able to bring up the edits function. It was when I hit “Save” that again I was taken to the "Sorry" page. Again hitting the refresh button (this time hitting an additional "resend" button firefox prompted) I was able to successfully save my profile and it was updated.

So I went back to messing around with the document manager upload button until an hour later it finally hit me! If I could save my Profile page... why couldn't I re-save an OLD document with the new material. I decided to test this theory.

Success ~! I was able to save an older document with the new material! Then all I had to do was go to the "my stories" section (again hitting the refresh button a million times) and edit story.

Then all I had to do was upload the older document with the new material in the add chapter selection and there you have it! My chapter was uploaded and I even check my own e-mail to make sure and sure enough there was the "story alert" e-mail telling me it had been a success!

So there you have it! A lot of patience and a determination to see it done! I hope this helps some people! I know I was dancing around the house all giddy when I got it done!

EDIT: On a quick note, one of my fellow writers mentioned she went to the firefox main page and got an addition called "refresh Every" where you can set the page automatically refresh itself from anywhere between 5 seconds to ten minutes. It certainly saves your fingers from cramping!

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I'm moving all my chapters and stories to another site. Even if I have to get my own. This is so ridiculous and so unprofessional to not even come here (which you can easily find through Google) to issue some kind of update on when the site will return.

Agreed on the ridiculousness of it all. They could do far better at monitoring the site and notifying everyone of problems. Given that umpty bazillion people emailed their support address about the down time, I find it difficult to believe that they're not aware of it.

I do cross-post on other archives, such as Fan Nation and a small fandom-specific site. However, I don't want to leave fanfiction.net and Fiction Press entirely because they have such a huge readership. My stories get the most hits by far over there.

Some other people have recommended different general-purpose fiction archives in the original downtime post. I hope that one or more of them provides a better home for your work.

I have never heard of Fan Nation until I came here. I'll have to check it out. And you're right about the fan base! I'll be darned if I leave such wonderful readers who left me over 650 reviews! It's really not fair to them and I personally love how it sends you a update e-mail. It's my life line.

Well good luck! My own private site crashed and burned in a fiery ball of doom when I moved 'cause I had no internet for over a year and the free site builder deleted it! Oh well.

I'd love to push the refresh button all day and night but I can't do it to update a story. Not that I'm not glad it works for those who can. It's been 48 hours and no update of any type of whether or not they are even fixing this problem. Big huge site perhaps. Very low professionalism. You can't run a site with tens of thousands of visitors like a mom&pop. It doesn't work...well.

I'm convinced there are only like 2-3 people running the entire site. There's no way to really contact anyone if something does wrong and when you do, no one ever responds.

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