FanFiction.Net is for fanfiction. To publish/read original stories and poetry please visit our sister site at FictionPress.com. January 27th, 2012 -- We are taking temporary preventive measures to stop the increasing trend of spammers targeting the site. For the time being, external links within user profiles will be disabled until a long term solution is devised.

January 5th, 2012 -- Notice: We are redesigning the storymarks (story bookmarks) feature and unfortunately the new system is incompatible with the current setup. If you have existing storymarks, please save them at your earliest convinence.

Siteminder: To prevent automated-bots and spammers, we will not accept account registration using disposable email addresses. If you have an existing account registered with an disposable email, please update your email to a valid one as soon as possible. Disposable emails are email accounts that are only valid for a few hours or a very short period.

December 27th, 2011 -- Note: We are currently upgrading the review database which will cause a delay in the public display of new reviews. Estimated completion time for the upgrade is 2PM PST time. [Upgrade completed]

December 23rd, 2011 -- We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! For 2011 we have dramatically improved site performance and stability as compared to years past. In fact, we have doubled our capacity in the last 6 months alone and have cut page load time by 50% within just this past week. One of our core goals is to deliver the cleanest and fastest experience for our members. Looking foward, we have several great feature launches planned for early 2012 so stay warm and stay tuned.

November 30th, 2011 -- Important: We recommend all users to login and use our new backup emails feature to add at least one backup email to their accounts. This will prevent the seemingly unilkey but very real scenario where one permanently loses account access because for various reasons they forgot both the login password and lost access to their primary email.

Notable changes:

• Mobile: Forum access and basic reply/subscribe features added.
• Mobile: Improved for iPad/Android tablets wiith larger and more legible text.
• Desktop: Traffic Stats graphs are now compatible with tablets.
• All: Tons of small changes and improvements since the last news update.

July 12th, 2011 -- We have fixed an issue where authors were having problem binding some specific characters to a story.

June 19th, 2011 -- We have tweaked the display setting for iPad and Android tablet users to make the main site more legible by default in landscape mode without additional zooming.

June 6th, 2011 -- We have implemented SSL web encryption for all login features. Full SSL encryption of the login area will protect our members from information eavesdropping/theft on insecure networks such as airports, public libraries, coffee shops, and all wifi-hotspots.

Encryption is now mandatory for login access and is highlighted by a lock symbol in your browser's url field. If you are unable to access the login area due to security prompts from your browser, please upgrade to the latest version of your favorite modern web browser.

May 27th, 2011 -- Private Messaging (PM) feature received a significant update today. The system has been rebuilt to scale with the growing daily volume and fine-tuned to be compatible with mobile devices.

Summary of changes:

1. PM version 2 (v2) is launching for both mobile and desktop users. Mobile users are now finally in-sync with their private inbox.
2. PM conversation threading now takes form similar to the presentation style of SMS messages.
3. Messages stored in the old PM system prior to 5/27/2011 are accessible via the PM archive link for 60 days of this announcement or until 7/27/2011. After July 27th, messages stored in the old system will be removed.

Misc notes: We have fixed an issue causing delay in the delivery of password recovery, email modification, and account registration emails.