News:
April 2nd, 2008 --
- Readers can now customize the "width" of displayed stories to reduce eyestrain when viewed with
the ever popular widescreen laptops/monitors. Widescreens are great for movies but not ideal
for reading a lot of text.
- Forum posting and editing pages have been updated with a visual editor. The new editor is much
easier to use for new users, allows easier linking, and does not require the memorization of unfamiliar tags.
Old forum tags will not be supported in new forum posts.
March 22nd, 2008 -- Summary of upgrades/notes since the last update:
- We have added Safari v3+ and Opera v9+ browser support for document and profile editing. We strongly advice all
Apple/Mac users to upgrade to the Safari v3.1 web browser.
- Online/Doc Editor: Spell-checking and preview accuracy have been improved.
- We do not support dash or other character based section/scene markers. If you wish to create a separation in your chapter, please
use the officially supported horizontal line feature in our document editor or in your favorite word program. Using unsupported section markers will only make your entries less compatible to
future upgrades. You can create the horizontal lines in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice by typing 3 or 4 consecutive dash/hyphen keys and then hitting enter. The site will
correctly recognize these scene breakers when you upload them.
March 16th, 2008 -- Summary of changes/upgrades since the last update:
- A filter by first letter option has been added to category listing pages.
Created in response to difficulties navigating top categories having hundreds of sub-categories.
- Document Manager: Microsoft Works (.wps) file support has been added we have improved
support for Microsoft Office 2003+ (.docx) files.
March 13th, 2008 -- Today we are proud to formally announce 3 new features that have been in beta-testing for
several weeks. In addition to the new upgrades, hundreds of smaller updates have also been pushed out of our
development factory since the last update. Instead of flooding this page with every detail of all the changes,
we will only focus on the sweetest of these fruits.
New Features:
- Beta Readers: A beta reader registration and directory look-up service is finally here.
- DocX: Document Exchange (DocX) is the newest tool allowing members to share private documents securely, safely, and with delivery confirmation.
- Document Manager: A new DocX format allows members to share documents with almost all formatting, such as text color and highlighting, fully intact.
The 3 features can be considered a single interconnected feature-set purposefully designed for beta readers, those seeking beta services,
and those wanting to share private documents with friends on the site.
Please login to access the new features and to understand them in detail. If you have accessed these
features prior to this announcement, we highly recommend that you revisit them individually, as they have all
undergone notable transformations since their first introductions.
January 15th, 2008 -- In response to a large-scale attempt by spammers to abuse our PM (Private Messaging) feature, we
have increased our security measures. In addition, we ask all our users to be on the look out for instances of
commercial spam on the site and to notify site admin at support@fanfiction.com immediately when found. With your help, we
will keep this site a barren zone for spammers.
January 7th, 2008 -- We have resolved a stability issue with our search engine. In addition, we have
fixed the problem that caused a 2 hour down-time this past Saturday. With these changes, potential disruption to
site services will be greatly minimized.
We will soon launch a site blog detailing the day-to-day operations to complement the infrequently
updated homepage announcements. With the blog, site members will be able to take a sneak peak at the
complex technical operation that is FanFiction.Net.
November 28th, 2007 -- Members can now report and have indecent or spam-like signed reviews removed. Next to every signed
review is a link where one can file a report.
The site will display the country location within members' profiles. To disable this feature, please login and visit
account settings.
November 14th, 2007 -- We have activated the ability to embed a poll within one's profile page. Only one
poll is allowed per profile. Please visit the poll section to activate this feature.
October 12th, 2007 -- The site is looking for 25 volunteers to help test a new feature
in development. We are looking for long time users of the site that are both active readers and
writers. Interested parties must have an site account for at least 1 year and is knowledgeable to the
world of beta-reading. If you qualify and are willing, please email support@fanfiction.com with "Tester Account"
as the subject line.
Stepember 28th, 2007 -- Polls/Surveys Feature: Thanks to all the beta testers we are able to round out all
the remaining issues with the new polling feature. Since announcement we have added a "blind" polling ability where voters
cannot access live poll result until polling has been closed.
With this new tool, communities within the site can hold contests or just poll general opinions with ease.
There are now no more excuses for members having polls/surveys within stories which is not allowed by our guideline.
Misc: We have improved the accuracy of .html file submissions and fixed a forum bug which caused some topic/thread time-stamps
to be off by 24 hours.
September 26th, 2007 -- New Feature: Polls/Surveys. Forum admins and moderators can now embed customized polls within forum topics.
To create a poll, please login and visit the new "poll" section. There you will find an overview with tools to add, view and manage
polls.
August 30th, 2007 -- General updates:
- Performance: Page loading in general is now faster for everyone and especially for forum threads with tons of avatars.
- Layout: Better support for small monitors with resolution of 800x600.
- Forum: There is now automatic protection against accidental double-posting.
- Forum: Will now display 100 threads per page and the magical 5001 post issue has been fixed.
August 5th, 2007 -- Bug fixes:
- Fixed problem where a fairly recent story would sometimes display an invalid "story/chapter not found" message.
- Fixed problem which caused Author Alerts, new story alerts from subscribed authors, to malfunction.
- Fixed problem which caused incorrect forum and community listing results when a category exist for multiple parent category, i.e. Teen Titans.
- Forum Topic/Thread alert emails now come with unsubscribe links.
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