News

News:

April 21st, 2010 -- Members now have a one-click method of unsubscribing from all previously subscribed forums and/or forum topics. The unsubscribe all link is accessible via the "subscription" links at the top of forum pages and as part of future forum alert emails.

April 2nd, 2010 -- We are actively tweaking a new standarized page navigation menu for the website and the page jump feature will be made available shortly.

March 28th, 2010 -- Stability issue with the search engine has been resolved. We have also fixed traffic page errors from the past 24 hours. For some members there will be missing traffic data for time periods spanning part of 26th and 27th.

We have temporarily disabled the dictionary for upgrades.

March 24th, 2010 -- We are currently investigating a problem where some searches are failing with errors.

March 23rd, 2010 -- Over the past 3 weeks we have completed an extensive upgrade of the FanFiction.Net hardware infrastructure which will allow the site to provide a faster and more reliable service to our members going forward. There were small hiccups along the upgrade path but we have resolved all outstanding issues.

Search database is currently receiving a minor update and is scheduled to be completed tomorrow. In the meantime, searches will not return newly updated/published stories.

February 23rd, 2010 -- Traffic Statistic servers will be receiving a performance upgrade within the next 24 hours during which stats gathering will be paused and traffic access will not be available.

January 11th, 2010 -- As result of a misconfigured internal upgrade, 1/4th of our members experienced broken real-time stats for part of Jan 9th, all of Jan 10th, and part of Jan 11th. We have resolved this issue and have installed safeguards to prevent recurrence.

December 16th, 2009 -- We have completed a major upgrade to our backend system designed to alleviate the random time-out errors within the login/admin area. Please report any issues in the login/admin area to support@fanfiction.com.

November 19th, 2009 -- Over the next two weeks we will be rolling out a siginificant new addition to FanFiction.Net and perform some critical upgrades to our backend system.

Side notes: We have modified the Justin section to include display of crossover stories. In addition, we have limited the range of filterable categories to the top 100 sorted by archive size. Please note that by default the Just In will display the last 50 stories from all available (unfiltered) categories.

October 27th, 2009 -- Storymarks, our fanfiction bookmarking feature, has returned. We disabled the feature more than a week ago due to inconsistent operation reported by many users. We have since redesigned the feature internally to make it compatible with more web browsers. As always, please report any issues to support@fanfiction.com.

October 22nd, 2009 -- We are actively restructuring the site and are moving some pages/links around. If you encounter a bad link, please email support@fanfiction.com with the link in question and the page it appeared in.

October 16th 2009 -- We have further expanded site performance for our international users.

In addition to East Asia, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe, users in the following regions will now enjoy faster site experience.

1. Brazil, Argentina, and other South America countries.
2. India, Malaysia, and other South East Asia countries.

September 26th, 2009 -- We have improve site performance for our loyal users in the following geographic regions:

1. Europe: UK, France, Germany, etc.
2. Asia 1: Australia/New Zealand
3. Asia 2: Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Thailand.

This is the first phase of our plan to make sure FanFiction.Net is not only accessible but also as fast as local sites in these regions. If you currently experience problems with page formatting, please alert us at support@fanfiction.com.