WillowDarkling

Thank you, Ellie, for letting us know how it worked for you! We greatly appreciate the input. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

Sorry, I got caught up in all the excitement of the site coming back online. I'll keep waiting for updates.

The archive is still in read only mode so you can’t post new chapters or stories. At the moment we are working on verifying user accounts as a first step towards reopening the site, so bear with us a little longer.
 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator 

I’m glad it worked! 
I always remember what my IT guys used to tell me. Either log out and log back in, or just turn it off, count to 30, and turn it on again. It generally worked!

Manta said that the emails are getting sent out based on registration date, so if you’re new-ish you’d be near the bottom of the list, but hopefully you’ll get it soon and won’t have a problem with activating and resetting. Just read the instructions BronxWench has been posting in response to users having a problem, but let us know here if the instructions don’t work for you. 

Not all is doom and gloom.  My validation and password reset email came in a few minutes ago.  The validation link already had “password” stripped out, and worked on the first try.  Likewise, the password reset link, which I used after the validation link, also worked on the first attempt.
Thanks.

I left this post in Hall of Shame because I thought it was a good place where people would actually see it, clicking on it out of curiosity. But it’s moved now. Hope this is a more appropriate place for it. So, that’s on me, not on George. 

Since our archive staff is unable to delete user accounts at the moment, due to the Archive being in read only mode, I am creating and pinning this thread here for anyone who would like their Archive account deleted, to try and make things easier for the Archive mods. 
What we will need is your Archive user name, and a link to your profile would make things go a lot more smoothly. And if you have a forum profile a link to that would be most helpful as well, since that will be deleted when there is no archive profile associated with it. 
And please be patient with us, our coder and admin are working their butts off to get this whole thing sorted. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

thanks for the suggesting Bronx! if you take password out on the end it works. im already got my new Password and cant wait to get back on!!

I left this post in Hall of Shame because I thought it was a good place where people would actually see it, clicking on it out of curiosity. But it’s moved now. Hope this is a more appropriate place for it. So, that’s on me, not on George. 

That link just goes to the front page of the Archives, we need the URL to your members profile, please.

OH!   I’m obviously working off some very old memory then   Or was it Story ID’s that aren’t unique across the Archives? 

We need the url to your profile url in the Archive, the user IDs are not unique across the Archive if I remember correctly. 

You shouldn’t need to know your old password for the reset. BUT, and this is a biggie, you can’t reuse your old password. It blanks the field and forces another reset.
Password rules recap:  Between 12-18 letters and/or numbers long, case sensitive. NO punctuation, spaces, or special characters allowed. Do NOT use your old password, or let Google make a strong password full of forbidden characters for you.

It appears that:
The word “Password” is appended at the end of the activation link. If you remove that, you should be able to properly verify the account; and The password reset link does seem to have a limited period in which it can be used.  If you leave your profile url for me, I can send you a password reset link. Hopefully, it won’t expire before you get it, but if it does, we’ll try again.
 

It’s going by user ID, oldest to newest. Keeping track of any oddities and will address those by the end of the week.

Our amazing manta2g has begun to roll out the emails to all our members, asking everyone to verify their email address and reset their password. This is the first phase of unlocking the site, and I'm pretty excited about it!
Please keep an eye out for our email, and follow the directions to verify your email address and reset your password. As always, if you run into any issues, you can email us at tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org or give us a shout over on the forums.
 
EDIT:
Okay. I just got MY email, and I copied and pasted the validation link (first link) into a new browser tab. I backed out the “password” at the end, hit enter, and it worked.
I then clicked the password reset link in the email, and I was immediately taken to the password reset page, where I successfully updated my password.
I have NO clue why it worked for me when it’s not working for other members, but there we are.

Note: If you didn’t get an email, make sure you also check your spam folder, because that’s where mine went to.

I’d upvote that comment if I could.  No, don’t give up.

This comment alone made me laugh far harder than it should.

I did take the time to look over the spreadsheet prepared by some intrepid folks, and the bulk of the works were scraped from FFN and AO3. There was nothing that was linked directly to AFF, which just goes to show that writing smut pays off in peculiar ways.
My biggest concern is that many of our members cross-post stories here and on other sites, so it’s likely that someone from AFF is going to have a fic stolen. @GeorgeGlass is dealing with someone reposting his work and that of other AFF authors on a site where it looks like the poster might actually get paid for those bits of theft. What’s worse with this Plush Books situation is that fan fiction exists in a gray area of copyright law that allows the use of copyrighted material for certain purposes as long as the user doesn’t make any money from the work. The only one entitled to make any money is the owner of the copyrighted material, period. Plush Books is stealing from the copyright owner, and putting the very existence of fan fiction at risk.
The oddest thing of all is that I first heard about this from the blog of a published author, Martha Wells, who writes the insanely good Murderbot novels. She mentioned it on her blog, and when I saw the article from The Mary Sue, I was appalled. But I was also kind of glad to see a NYTimes bestselling author standing up for fan fiction writers.

LOL, we need the like button for that

Thank you both for that, we do appreciate it a lot. As for helping out, I think @manta2g is the only one who can really answer that question, since she takes care of our code.