Dead alerts???

[christinex1001.livejournal.com]

Wish I'd found this community earlier, 'cause God knows ff.n gives me plenty to bitch about!

I haven't gotten e-mails for reviews in almost a week. I know I'm getting reviews, because I see them when I log in and check my stats, but notifications are dead. Am I correct in assuming that ALL alerts are down, including new chapter/story updates? I have a new fic that will probably be ready to post by the end of the weekend, but I'm loath to post it if no one's going to know it's there.

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[beckyblack]

Strewth I forgot of course that the reviewer won't even have seen my (late) reply! And won't do until the alerts come back. I think I'll go see if their email address is available.

Mwhaha! That's still broken too! It's a conspiracy I tell ya, to make me look like a rude person that doesn't answer reviews! Why the heck can't we read PMs on the site itself?

Does anyone think Fanfiction and Fictionpress may die for good, sooner, rather than later? And is there an alternative?

I've looked at a couple of other places and to be honest they make you glad for the refreshing simplicity of the fanfiction.net model!
http://www.writing.com/ and http://www.quizilla.com/ for example just make it too hard to find anything! Though I suspect my brain is simply too old to understand Quizilla. ;-) I've not even got as far as trying to post anything on those.

[kazzy24.livejournal.com]

Bah! Those two sites look evil! Lol!

The great thing about ff.net is, as you say, the simplicity. It's just a real shame that they can't get their act together and fix the site so it actually works for longer than a week at a time!

[christinex1001.livejournal.com]

My husband and I had a discussion about this last night, since I had to continue my rant over dinner. :-P He asked why I couldn't post in other places, and I said the problem is that ff.n is the first and the biggest, and the place most people still go, despite other fanfic sites that have popped up (or LJ comms). Also, I do really like the interface on ff.n in terms of reading fics. I like that I'm able to change the font to serif (I hate reading fics in sans serif fonts...makes them look like instructions on how to set up your stereo or something), and I like the simple white page with black text. It's easier to absorb large chunks of text in that format. About the only other site I've found that has an interface that's as easy on the eyes is Sycophant Hex, but that's only good if you're posting HP fics.

Anyone know where ff.n is based? If it's in California, maybe the hubby and I should drive over and hold the webmaster hostage while my husband (a programmer) picks the code apart and figures out why the site keeps breaking. :-P

[stariceling.livejournal.com]

XD That would be so awesome. (It just reminded me of this (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20010122.html).) I really wish I knew so I could help you out there.

But yeah, it is the biggest and the first. >.< Which is the only reason I could be talked into putting a sample of my stuff up there in the first place. So it just keeps getting bigger, because people look there first. *headkeys*

[christinex1001.livejournal.com]

Somebody's gotta know where the evil little troll who runs ff.n hangs out. Or maybe he's off in the Bahamas, buying drinks and babes with all the ill-gotten loot he's made from the annoying advertising on the site.

All I know is that when something breaks on that site, it's usually down for a week. So maybe on Wednesday it will magically heal itself.

Yeah, right.

[stariceling.livejournal.com]

I prefer http://www.lunaescence.com/, personally. It's tiny compared to ff.net, but it's good.

You can't really expect reviews, and it doesn't keep track of hits, but it's modorated to keep the worst of the crap out. At least there's a high percentage of readable fic. I found it more simple to use than ff.net.

[christinex1001.livejournal.com]

I prefer http://www.lunaescence.com/, personally. It's tiny compared to ff.net, but it's good.

Unfortunately, that seems to be all anime, manga, and gaming fiction, and I don't write any of those. Oh, well.

[stariceling.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's becuase it mostly gets pimped around on anime forums and such. (There are sections for Books, Cartoons/Comic, Movies, and TV but I agree that those are pretty stunted)