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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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From:

isethia.livejournal.com

The chapter disappeared from my account, so I reposted it. It went through normally, but the site thinks it doesn't exist. And, unlike earlier, when it was showing up as part of the story, it's not even doing that.

Seriously, the people maintaining ff.net (if they even exist) really need to get their act together.

From:

kenyanna dyer (from livejournal.com)

lolwhat!?

People maintaining?

There are no people!

Only trained monkeys that eat banana and toss poop at the wall! Didn't you know that?

Ah well... being serious now.

I'm STILL waiting for the two chapters to SHOW themselves. I feel like I am stalking the site now. A friend of mine is also waiting for her stories to so up.

This is annoying.

From:

isethia.livejournal.com

And considering that the site did this exact same thing on Saturday, and the stories didn't show up until Sunday afternooon . . . it could be a long wait.

From:

kenyanna dyer (from livejournal.com)

Now my main question is... are the readers actually GETTING the alerts? I mean, I have a major story that I was planning to update tomorrow. However, I am scared to update. I will be honest, I am seriously worried about the readers NOT knowing and the reviews NOT showing up because they didn't even know TO review.

Why does Fanfiction . net have THIS on there main page: News:
April 12th, 2011 -- We have resolved all outstanding issues which affected site service for much of yesterday. Please note we are upgrading the forums engine and some forum features will be inaccessible over the next 24 hours.

IF NOTHING HAS BEEN FIXED!?!?

I viewed the 'Just in stories' and is appears that SOME people are able to post fine. It also appears as if some people are able to review. I don't understand. Is this problem messing with only Half the people of Fanfiction . net and the other half is lucky enough to get smooth sailings?

That ends my mini rant.

From: (Anonymous)

juan_carlos_perez (at)idg(dot)com is a journalist with PC Weekly who loves writing stories on problems at internet sites. He's been great when blogger had the same problems and even found the bunker where they're hiding.

I might give him an email to see if he'd be interested in doing an article on it.

From:

isethia.livejournal.com

If you take a closer look at the just in (click on the feed), it shows that nothing new has been posted in four hours. Those are the people that managed to post earlier today, during one of the times that the site was being cooperative.

I think the readers are getting the alerts, but I can't be sure, becasue the only story I'm suscribed updates very rarely. I did get the alert saying that I'd posted a new chapter. (And I really don't get that. I know when I post a new story, so why am I getting author alerts for myself?)

They probably think they have fixed everything. and they may have fixed the problem they were working on.

My guess is the site has some kind of issue with its cache.

From:

loonynamelass.livejournal.com

Oh, by the way, the reason you get alerts for your own stories is because you have your Carbon Copy Alert enabled. Whenever an alert is sent out to your readers about your story, you can get a carbon copy. To disable that, you can click the Alerts tab there's a handy dandy button.

Not all is bad. :)

From: (Anonymous)

My alerts are going out but guess what the updates are still not showing up, instead error messages when you click the links on the alerts. The updates don't exist.

That's the original problem they had last weekend. it's still there.

I guess this is their way of saying that we fixed A, now we're going to screw up B and C. When of course, A's not fixed.

From:

kenyanna dyer (from livejournal.com)

Gosh dangit.

So if I post at midnight it would be up by eight am? And I would still receive reviews?

-bangs head-

GOSH!

I NEED A NEW SITE TO POST ON!

From: (Anonymous)

My FF.net fandom is small so I don't know if they can even read the updates but somehow, I'm getting reviews eventually on FP stories. It just takes a lot longer.