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I updated today, not last Sunday

I was able to log on this morning and update my story. However, for some reason, fanfiction.net seems to be under the impression that I updated my story on April 3rd. That was the day I posted chapter four. Today, I posted chapter five. The new chapter is there, and can be read. But, no one will see it, because my story didn't move up the list of stories. And no alerts went out. And I know I have people waiting for the update. But how in the world are they supposed to know that I posted it?!

And I know other people have had their stories go through correctly, because I was able to read the newest chapter in one of the stories I'm following, and that new chapter was posted this afternoon.

At this point, I'd consder going to another archive, but I don't feel comfortable posting my stories anywhere else. And, I wouldn't even know where else to post them.

ETA: As of this morning (4/13/11), my story has finally shown up where it's supposed to be.

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I was able to log in. Post a story and a chapter. Sad thing is that they haven't yet showed up on my profile. So I don't know what's going on around here. How are things on your end?

It really is a pain. I get alerts, but you can't access the new chapter because well the error pops up. I even updated today and my update didn't show up. It was fine last night. I was able to upload and it showed up, but now it's not even working. So irritating.

I wrote support and told them they should just stop upgrading the forums and work on the updates so you know they actually ...show up.

I think they shut down the forums b/c they didn't like reading about themselves.

I tried posting a new story up right around 5:30ish. I got the email alert saying that the story was posted, but when I click the link all I get is a "Story Not Found" Error. Then less than an hour ago I checked again and it said something about "recheck in 15 minutes" and a possible outdated url. Now I went back to check one last time just for shits and giggles, low and behold it's back to "Story Not Found". -_- I kinda wish they would pick one and stick with it at the very least. Is it "not found" or is it "going up in 15 minutes". Either way the site is losing a lot of supporters due to this mess...

mine's up. only three hours after the alerts went out.

So weird... Mine is working fine, all the chapters are there and alerts too o.o

I swear, my ff.net is working just fine, i can login, i can post and I have alerts, so... o.o how weird. Maybe it's because well... there are 6 millions of stories -w-.

I'm able to log in. Update a story. Send out alerts for said story. But the chapter is unavailable to view. Plus, I've updated my profile two hours ago and the new changes aren't appearing either.

So, what the heck...

I can't say anything to help, or tell you how to fix it except by just letting the developers try and handle it themselves. But just try and believe in them, because they know that if it's not working then we'll just leave.

Speaking of leaving, please don't leave! Even if you feel that they don't care about you, you can be pretty darned sure that your readers care (and I care too, stranger!). Please don't go over to another archive; a lot of people have been leaving lately because of the RedBooton issue (which has seriously been taken the wrong way, I mean, they can't physically delete your stories, only report them to be deleted and FF are really, really slow at following up on reports) and there aren't many left on the site.

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Gah, what am I saying? I'm going off track again.

Basically, this anon just wants you to know that you're loved, and that it'll all be okay. Anon will always love you! ♥

_{of course please don't take this in a creepy way or anything: anon just loves everyone}

I'm glad it showed up for you hun.

I can understand worrying about posting at other archives. Some can all but crush you with their list of 'what we won't accepts' and 'this better be damn near perfect or else it's not allowed'. You think a story fits their requirements only to get the dreaded, 'we don't accept that here' type email back instead of a posted story. As my muse is often all about rubbing my fandom the wrong way I tend to write things are as as anti-canon as they come and that often comes with that 'this isn't allowed here' email when submitted into an archive's que. You don't have to deal with that b.s. at FF.net. It's a little harder for me to find places that won't turn their collective noses up to what I'm writing simply because of what it is depending on who and what I've been writing.

However, things are looking less and less stable at FF.net. A good back-up plan is always sound. I think it was why I was so intrigued by having never heard of AO3 yesterday. Granted the main fandom I write for isn't small - though the pairings I often pick can be sparse. Still I would hate to lose the majority of what readers I have because FF.net is ass of tea kettle more often than not.

Sometimes if you can find another place you feel comfortable posting, it's a good thing to have that. You get a different demographic of readers in some cases that you might not have gotten other wise. Or it could give you a place to have everything in case something drastic were to happen to ff's already unstable site.

*hugs* Hope you get lots of wonderful reviews.

Have you found this archive? It's automated like ff.net. I had to request that my fandom be included, but that was done within a day. If you write a particular pairing you can ask that the characters be included in the drop-down list.

http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/index.php

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