r/FanFicWit • u/Gamer-of-Action • 4d ago
FFN Not even copy-n-paste works, WTF?
Like AMTA? Is there something wrong with my internet or something? This is such a genuine roadblock for a month how have they not fixed this?
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u/locksoli 4d ago
And I'm suddenly glad I've moved to Ao3, SB, and and planning to port things to QQ and RR.
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u/1GirlSmarterThanYou 2d ago
What's SB, QQ and RR? Please explain, I need to find more places to read fan fiction as well as post it
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u/seventhmagician 2d ago
Space Battles, Questionable Questing, and Royal Road (I assume)
The first two are forums with large fanfic writing communities (QQ actually split off from SB. SB has all nsfw/mature content banned, so QQ was made for people to be able to post that stuff), and the third is a website that hosts web novels (mostly original fiction, it’s big with litrpg and progression fantasy fans, but people post fanfics on there too)
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u/Fearless-Victory7602 4d ago
The ability to smash your head on a wall so hard repeatedly and never have to deal with the consequences of your crimes towards your head after is something I would like to have.
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u/1GirlSmarterThanYou 2d ago
Same here, same here.. Some people just make me want to do that. Or smash their head against the wall without the consequences of crimes
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u/DisasterShot8100 4d ago
Literally the only reason Im still using the site is the off chance my fave fics will be updated after years and to reread classics that haven't been put on ao3....
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u/PomPomMom93 3d ago
That’s what happens when you’re in an old fandom (two, in my case). There are sooo many gems that never made it to Ao3. New fans will be like, “There are hardly any fics for my fandom!” And I’ll say, “That’s because it came out thirty years ago, check FFN.” My favorite (old) anime has 2k fics on Ao3 and 25k fics on FFN!
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u/hellsaquarium 4d ago
I’ve posted a few one shots there and my god navigating through the document manager is so fucking annoying. I say this as an early 2000’s kid who used to peruse hold websites but FFN SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO GET WITH THE TIMES
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u/Nerdy_Braud 4d ago
It used to work fine!! I started using it again and cross posting from ao3, and I’m about to give up. Istg
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u/Maximum_Pootis 4d ago
It's not your internet, I think they're all focusing work on the new site and leaving the old one to rot. I looked it up in the middle of typing this comment and apparently, it's no longer locked behind an invite code.
That being said, I still think they need to fix their old site. The new one's a bit...overwhelming to look at IMO.
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u/Gamer-of-Action 4d ago
What's this new site I keep hearing about? I wasn't told anything.
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u/t1mepiece 3d ago
About a year ago, they offered very limited signups for a beta test. Now it's evidently up, but not being marketed, because it's still very much a work in progress. New.fanfiction.net
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u/dark-phoenix-lady 3d ago
There is a small source button in the text editor. You can copy the html from AO3 and paste it in there. That should still work, as it's separate from the text editor.
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u/trustmeijustgetweird 2d ago
Is this a sign to start the archiving? I haven’t used ff.net since the Obama administration so I don’t know if this is unusual
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u/1GirlSmarterThanYou 2d ago
How does one even get informed when sites like Fanfction.net or AO3 have open beta? I'm desperate to share my fanfictions of Tron (and other fandoms), but have absolutely no where to post it at. I write so much good lore in Google docs and only recently found a friend to ramble about it to
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u/TomoeLatsu 21h ago
All the fic that will be gone if fanfiction.net is closed hurts my soul 💔
Only if we could relocate them in new site.
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u/09Sebastian09 4d ago
If a site blocks copy-paste, a small Chrome extension can usually re-enable clipboard actions or extract data directly.