WillowDarkling

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. 

As the forum moderator, I want to thank you, very much for your kind words, and I am so happy that the sites have been a help in troubled times. 
I decided to pin your post for the time being, so it will remain at the top of the forum, so our hardworking archive moderators, our admin and the rest of the crew can see it. 
Thank you, again, for such lovely words. 
 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

While the Archives are in Read Only mode the Head Archive mod is unable to delete any accounts. 
Therefore, if you do wish to have your account deleted please leave a post on this thread, linked here: Wish To Delete Account Thread
This is in order to keep all of the deletion requests in one place, to try and make things a little easier on our Head Archive mod when we get back up and running. 
We will need your username in the archive, and a link to your profile would be awesome. Also, if you have a forum profile that will need to be deleted too, so a forum username and link would be brilliant as well. 
 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

No, the Archives are still in read only mode so users cannot upload their stories at this time. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

No, the Archives are still in read only mode so users cannot upload their stories at this time. 
Willow Darkling, forum moderator. 

Dear gods.
You need to report this to WebNovel: dmca@webnovel.com  I recommend including links to the stories here on AFF as well as your profile links showing dates of initial posting of the stories in question. He’s got your damned name on the “cover” of his story, ffs. He’s not even shy about being a thief.
I’m not finding that pen name here on AFF, sadly, or I’d kick his sorry ass off my archive.

This jerk stole 2 of my stories and a few others from AFF and posted them on Webnovel. Lady Freelove (author of one of the stolen stories) alerted me, and I’ve alerted the other authors.
https://www.webnovel.com/profile/4304588891?appId=10

I posted the final chapter of “Smooshed” on AO3 a couple of days ago. The reaction to that and to chapter 1 of “Out of Hand” has been substantial, which is delightful.
Less delightful was some news I got the other day: My friend Lady Freelove let me know that my story “The Power Arcane” was plagiarized and published on Webnovel.com under the plagiarist’s name. I created an account there and reported it; we’ll see what, if anything, comes of that.
On the writing front, I now have 3 priorities: the final chapter of “Depravity Falls,” chapter 2 of “Out of Hand,” and the final story of “The Power Arcane.” Which doesn’t mean that I’m not also working on a bunch of other stuff.

The Donations link should be working. It’s under the Site section of the new menu.
As Willow said, all donations go towards the hosting costs and to defray the costs of updates to the site. No one, from the owner on down, ever gets any money for doing what we do for AFF. We donate our time because we all believe in what AFF stands for—free expression  and acceptance.

Thank you so much for that, Donkingkong.
I know that before all of these attacks we had a donation link in the Archives, and all donations went towards hosting costs and such things. But I don’t know what the status of that is at the moment. We’ll have to ask @DemonGoddess or @manta2g or @BronxWench about that, I’m afraid. 
But I am certain, whether it be now, or after we’re back up and running, all donations would be so greatly appreciated. We’re all volunteers here, so all donations go towards the site in full. We do not get paid for maintaining the site.