AnonGrimm

For me, the website (Archive, not forum), keeps giving me "this website is not available" and no amount of refreshing helps, and then suddenly it works again, as well as being very slow to load. This seems to happen not just at login time, but between random pages after login, too. I do see that fixes are being handled as mentioned above, so I'm only posting this info in case it's a new problem. Otherwise, I'll assume it's going to be sorted out in a few days as mentioned above. Thanks for all the hard work you all do to keep this site running smoothly.

Got your email. Thanks again for all the help. I'm cropping my author note word count and added the extra fandom disclaimer.

Oh, for some reason it says this story Overdrive of mine is hidden. Violation of TOS. Maybe I have an Author Note that is too long? Not sure how to check...

Oh, oh, it worked! I checked the silly firewall (just moved to Windows 10 a bit ago) and it was blocking this. I used the right click in the rich text box and when "Paste" appeared, I hit it, and that smaller "post here" box popped up and let me paste my chapter. It now says it posted successfully. Yay! (But seriously, you all are awesome for replying as fast here as you always do. Love you all! Hugs!)

I'm using the upper right login boxes. I just logged out and back in to be sure, but I get the same webpage error message. It really could be my Google Drive sync, but I'm nervous to restart and have it have to resync a lot of files from the start again. I will try that, if I have to.

I'm having a similar problem, trying to c/p a new chapter via the control panel, using Chrome, ignoring the update by file box, using rich text editor. I can add the chapter title, but the moment I paste my chapter in the rich text editor, it snaps over the "Aw, Snap! There was an error!" webpage error. I have two other tabs open in Chrome, and no problems with them. No problems with clicking around the AFF site in general, and I edited two chapters successfully before being foiled in adding the new chapter. I keep trying, but it isn't working. Restart is problematic, as I am running a sync with Google Drive. That may actually be gumming things up, but I don't think so, since everything else online works fine except c/p of a new chapter. Any ideas? Is the rich text editor having an issue tonight, or maybe it really is my sync messing it up? Thanks so much for any info or suggestions you may have.

Thanks so much for the fast response, that is so great! I really appreciate the help. I try to hold off on edits on prior chapters until a new chapter update, but on my older stories, that isn't an option. Thanks again, and you all rock!

I forgot I wasn't logged in on this forum when I post the question above, but this is me, AnonGrimm. Thanks!

Views perhaps, but views aren't a conversation. My feedback often contains questions I can't respond to, because social media stats show that most people don't use forums anymore; every forum I used to be on daily has dried up and disappeared. It made me sad, to be honest, I always enjoyed them. Here, I'm pretty much the only person posting on my story threads, and it has made me less likely to post there, too. For a long time, I got no reviews and when an opportunity came that ate a lot of my writing time, I figured I could take a break because no one seemed to be reading anyway. Then I started to get email notifications of new reviews and it made me want to update, so I did. But I keep hearing readers say they are worried I won't update, and I'm worried they won't see the author notes or bio notes that I am working on the stories again. I suppose if a forum is enough for the majority, I'll have to make do. It just seems to me there could be another more immediate way to respond to reader questions and to thank them for reviewing. But I know you all work very hard on this site and I do appreciate all that you do to keep it running so well. I guess I'll just add more author notes and hope the readers who avoid the forum but who are asking questions see my answers. Thanks again, both of you, for responding and for your help. Happy Halloween! 😊

Yes I always have a link. They review, but they don't go to the forum. We need a better way to respond to them. Many people don't go onto forums anymore. Is there any possibility of a non-forum resource? Maybe to do with the author's bio?

Can we invent a better way to communicate with readers/reviewers? We aren't allowed to respond in the reviews, which makes sense, bandwidth and all, but the forum story threads I started are only posted in by me, while readers leave reviews and assume I'm not responding to their kind reviews. I have author notes and notes on my bio, but no way to talk to readers where they will see it. What can we do? More readers might review stories of they could talk to the authors. They simply don't seem to go to the forum. Help? I have readers trying to ask my update plans, and I have no way to tell them. Thanks for all you do, I know it's a lot of work!

Shattered Silence is now completed! I can't remove the "work in progress" (WIP) from the story codes, but it is completed. Sorry it took forever. I will still finish my other incompletes, but it may take awhile, as real life is very busy. Thanks for reading, commenting, and for your patience!

I guess I had the wrong section, I just posted about this in the bug tracker and then found this thread. Sorry! So I'm trying to edit chapter 5, but only chapters 1 and 2 show up in the pulldown (there should be 9 listed there). Even if I click on chapter 2 that is showing, nothing happens. I've rebooted my browser, logged out, logged back in, waited awhile, ect, but it's not working. A little bit ago, it let me edit chapter 4 after about five tries, but it seems to have quit working entirely now. I've just come across this problem today. For me, this is in the DC comics area, in case that matters. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks! - Anon Update: I checked again, and suddenly it let me edit chapter 5! So maybe this problem really is a bug? Weird. I've been trying about 10 times, and all of sudden it worked again.