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The new hardware has been brought online, migration is starting today with the final migration set up for 6-8am EST Saturday the 23rd.
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As some of you may or may not have noticed, over the past few weeks we've been experiancing some issues with page loads and site slowness between 11pm and 1am EST. This is historically our busiest time of the evening, yet the issue is new. After some discussion with our Hosting company Nexcess, it was determined that the hardware we used was causing the issue. So of course, this means that it's time to upgrade the beast that keeps AFF running.
Over the course of the next week the hardware will be upgraded, ideally it will for the most part be transparent to you our users, but as always we want to make sure that you are aware of what is going on. The new server will be coming online between 6am and 8am EST the morning of the 19th (today or tomorrow depending on your timezone) and the data migration will happen the 20th, again between 6am and 8am EST, this time with approximately 1 hour downtime as the data is moved. As we are also upgrading the OS and a few other odds and ends at the same time, there may be some additional strangeness as we ensure everything is configured correctly for approximately 1 week from today.
While the entire staff as well as Nexcess will make sure that everything goes smoothly, if you experience any issues with the site outside of the 6-8am timeframes I mentioned above, please either comment in this threat or in the technical support forum with specific details and if possible screenshots of any issues you may have, or if you have questions please feel free to ask here.
Once again, we thank you so much for your understanding and support!
Hats off to Nexcess for their quick and speedy resolution!
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Best response to being HoS!
I am proud to be in the Hall of Shame. I consider it an honour when a semi-functional website that has nothing but Yaoi-loving, middle-aged housewives writing boring stories, who don't contribute to anything else on this planet, really give me this awards. It simply tells me that I'm not like you, and thank goodness for that. Other than that, go fuck yourself.
And one wonders why this person was HoS'd!
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It's that time again... Guess the theme!
PM me with your responses ^.^
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Updates from Apollo
Updates from Apollo
Alright, so the site is always fun, but thankfully there are no fireworks on site! Things have been relatively calm other than the attempted hack attack on our site a week or so back. I hope for all of our USA fans that you have/had a wonderful 4th of July weekend with friends and family
As I have guests myself this weekend, I'll make the updates quick and painless!Archive Improvement Status Updates
Nothing knew to report on this end, things are still progressing and we will let you know when they start rolling out!
2012 Calendar and 10 Year Anniversary
Well, I know it seems really early to be thinking about 2012, but before you know realize it will be here and we won't have a calendar! I know last time it was such short notice that it was hard for artists to come up with stuff for us, so we'll be starting it a little earlier this time around. In August's news we will be releasing details of two upcoming art contests - One for the calendar and one for the 10th Anniversary site logo. So get out your thinking caps, pens, pencils, pixels and other instruments of amazing art and keep your eyes peeled for all the ins and outs next month!!!
AFF CafePress Store
Please take a moment to check out our store, featuring our AFF Calendar and other merchandise with the wonderful designs they provided us! If you see artwork you like but not on an item you are interested in? Send me a PM or e-mail and I will see what we can do!
Funding Status
Information to exact status is always found on the donations page. Currently, the site has $1281.90 stored in PayPal. July's hosting costs are paid and we look good for the coming months! The money we have will be going towards the various upgrades planned and while we have amassed a small surplus that will allow us to do these various upgrades, please keep us in mind if you have some spare cash! Please see the donation page for further information on how.
Tech Updates from DemonGoddess
Monthly Moderation Update
As always, we want to keep you informed of how the site moderation goes. Take a look at the wonderful work that our staff has done in keeping the site safe and open to all! Click Me!
Clean Up Update
It is ongoing, if a little slow as I am the only one doing the actual database repairs. The sort/catalog tends to be quicker as multiple people work on that. Please know that work is continuing on it.
Attempted Hack/Virus Information
As your browsers may have told you, back on June 20th someone attempted to hack our banner software which made the site read as infected to browsers and threat detection sites. I reinstalled the banner software, created new tables in the database and deleted the old data. Catching it early allowed us to stop the attack and prevent whoever it was from continuing the attack. We have also had Nexcess run a utility to repair damages to the databases as some of the tables were slightly corrupted, this includes a forum table which caused the forum failure last week. We are pleased to report that no data was lost in the attack and subsequent repairs.
For your peace of mind, please know that we have taken necessary precautions to ensure that this doesn't happen again. We are on a dedicated secure server and it was confirmed that those are in working order. It appears that a few other sites that host adult and/or slash related content also experienced attacks around the same time, so it doesn't appear that we were specifically targeted. For more information, you can visit this topic for timeline and screenshots of what happened.
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As DG didn't address the second part of your post - I will.
I'd like you to scroll up just above your post, you will see a box there that says: "If you know the piece of fiction that someone is searching for is removed from the site, but you retained a personal copy, please do not pass the story around. If the story is taken down either by the Author or Moderator staff there is a reason behind it that must be respected." While it may not tell you to not ask for a copy, I would think that it is easily inferred that you shouldn't.
So as a reminder to all reading this topic - If you do have a copy and you pass that copy around, you are either supporting someone's illegal activities (posting a story underage on an adult site) or you are disrespecting an Authors wishes. Both are equally disagreeable.
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From a smart man:
I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver cut right in front of a pickup truck causing him to have to drive on to the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and flipped the woman off. "Man, that guy is stupid" I thought to myself.
I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic and here's why: I drive 48 miles each way every day to work, that's 96 miles each day. Of these, 16 miles each way is bumper-to-bumper. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway so if you just look at the 7 lanes I am not in, that means I pass something like a new car every 40 feet per lane.
That's 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to be 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper to bumper, I figure I pass at least another 4000 cars. That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars I pass every day.
Statistically, half of these are driven by females, that's 18,000. In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642. According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33.
According to the National Rifle Association 5% of all females carry weapons and this number is increasing. That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed. Flip one off?
I think not.
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Updates from Apollo
Updates from Apollo
So there are actually a few updates this time around, so take a look!
Archive Improvement Status Updates
The first phase of our improvements is still underway and set to roll out this summer if all goes as planned. Please see the Tech Updates for more information!
AFF CafePress Store
Please take a moment to check out our store, featuring our AFF Calendar and other merchandise with the wonderful designs they provided us! If you see artwork you like but not on an item you are interested in? Send me a PM or e-mail and I will see what we can do!
Funding Status
Information to exact status is always found on the donations page. Currently, the site has $1834.82 stored in PayPal. June's hosting costs are paid and we look good for the coming months! The money we have will be going towards the various upgrades planned and while we have amassed a small surplus that will allow us to do these various upgrades, please keep us in mind if you have some spare cash! Please see the donation page for further information on how.
Tech Updates from DemonGoddess
Monthly Moderation Update
As always, we want to keep you informed of how the site moderation goes. Take a look at the wonderful work that our staff has done in keeping the site safe and open to all! Click Me!
Clean Up Update
- Books: Complete
- Buffy: Date/time stamp repair is complete, story/chapter/review data repair is in progress
- Cartoon: Initial sort is complete, in subdomain story movement is complete, the between subdomain story movement is in progress
- Celeb: Initial sort-in progress
Details for each are here, here, and here.
Unlimited Sub-Category Site Update
I expect this to be live sometime in June. This needs to be finished BEFORE we actually get in to the rewrite of the search entirely, so that the new substructure is also factored in to the search protocols. There are some other details as to how it will affect latest listing, and I'll get those in a bit.
Duplicate User Processing
Just a reminder, that if you get an email that has your login details sent to you, and you did not generate it, it's from when I either merged multiple accounts, or deleted extra accounts with no data, leaving only one.
As we've been going along with clean up, as well as for when Apollo was going through 3 years of unread admin mail, there were many requests for password information due to lost password and changed emails. Needless to say, I never got those when they were sent initially, so there were many duplicate accounts created at the time, because the users were not given the information they requested.
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So I was informed today that I forgot to post this! The theme was Sleep!
Congrats to the following people who guessed correctly:
- 08Hiei66
- Shadowknight
- BronxWench
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Wait you know you aren't supposed to be here and come back to post that? I should ban you just for that reason alone - Check your email.
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Updates from Apollo
Updates from Apollo
I know I said Sunday and I apologize for the lateness, but things have been a bit crazy between finally getting a job in April and then being out of town for the last week as my boyfriend graduated as one of the Army's newest Infantryman. So yea... Very sorry for the delay, I'm playing catch up in all parts of my life right now! You may recognize 90% of the content in here, but nothing has really changed in the last month, so funding information is updated and the archive moderation information has been updated.
Archive Improvement Status Updates
The first phase of our improvements is still underway and set to roll out this summer if all goes as planned. There were a few snags as PHP6 is being rewritten and Manta wants to make sure that the site is set for a good long while!
AFF CafePress Store
Please take a moment to check out our store, featuring our AFF Calendar and other merchandise with the wonderful designs they provided us! If you see artwork you like but not on an item you are interested in? Send me a PM or e-mail and I will see what we can do!
Funding Status
Information to exact status is always found on the donations page. Currently, the site has $830.36 stored in PayPal. May's hosting costs are paid and we look good for the coming months! We have amassed a small surplus that will allow us to do these various upgrades, but again, please keep us in mind if you have some spare cash! Please see the donation page for further information on how.
Tech Updates from DemonGoddess
Monthly Moderation Update
As always, we want to keep you informed of how the site moderation goes. Take a look at the wonderful work that our staff has done in keeping the site safe and open to all! Click Me!
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There are several FAQ's on how to post a story, including how to use the jump menu on the side of your Author's panel - As always we suggest you start there. If after reviewing the related FAQ's you still have questions, please feel free to ask.
When you upload in plain text instead of using the Rich Text Editor you must hand code the story in the txt file for formatting to show up, otherwise it will just be as we call it a wall of text with no formatting. Again there are FAQ's on how to upload in plain text as well as how to use the Rich Text Editor.
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I do not know how we can put this any more clearly. I'm guessing you are not an author and therefore do not understand the pain involved in getting your work stolen. Author's spend a lot of time and energy creating and posting their creative work.
Quite frankly, I don't care if you were mid stroke and about to cum, but there is no way that we are going to release information about someone who stole (which is illegal just so you know) someone else's story. The fact that you would even ask for it simply astounds me.
I recommend that you let this go.
Week 43: 7-31-11
in Weekly Prompt
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Prompt: Earth
Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules
Happy Writing!