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The other aspect that DG didn't mention is the legal aspect. Writing fan fiction is always a very tricky legal argument, but manage to get away with it because normally the work is copyrighted but the actual images are trademarked, not the character traits. So we generally try to stay away from the art side of things as much as possible to avoid possible trademark issues as well as the fuzzy copyright issues out there. The history behind the site comes from fan fiction and will always stay oriented towards fiction as there are plenty of other sites out there that to the image hosting very well! Thanks for the suggestion thought!

New Known Issue: If the < pre > tag was used as your text container, then it was stripped as it is no longer supported, and text may not be word wrapped.

Prompt: Poppy Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

Note: The archives for clean up that have already been repaired are Books and most of Buffy.

Updates from Apollo Updates from Apollo I swear, every time I turn around it's been two weeks already! And here I thought that we wouldn't have even enough updates for a bi-weekly post, but new things are coming quick and fast! Archive Improvement Status Updates So last time I talked about some of the most requested Archive changes and forgot one! An easier way to load your stories to the site! We all know that hand coding a story can be a pain but what I bet you didn't know is that uploading a file like we used to support takes up a whole lotta space. Word and other editing programs toss a bunch of excess code into the database that just isn't needed. Remember when back in November I said the archive was 7.7GB? Well, two and a half months later we are at 7.8GB even though as usual we've been working to remove the excess minors and other such things that bloat the database. At this rate, we'll be over 8GB by the time the summer hits! So what do you do when the only options are hand coding or extra code that doesn't help the site? You install a Rich Text Editor that gives all your users many more options to play with! In the 48 hours since it's gone live there have been some good and some bad feedback from the users. As such, I wanted to address some of the concerns that were brought up. My chapter looks strange in the text box: Okay, so I explained before that uploading chapters bloats the database which is why with the new RTE we have disabled this option. Now, the RTE doesn't play correctly with the old uploads in the RTE box, so if you uploaded a chapter in the past or pasted in from Word or another word processor without hand coding in line breaks etc, it will look like a blob of text in the editor. Unless you click Edit Chapter it will not affect the formatting in the Archive. If you wish to make sure that it still looks nice in the editor, just hit enter at the start of each paragraph and save. My chapter looks really weird in the archive now: When we installed the RTE editor, we also ran a cleaning program that stripped out all the bloated code that Word and the other processors left behind, this can result in your story looking something like this with the broken lines and random code snippit. Most times this can be fixed by pulling up the chapters itself in the editor and just resaving, but a quick perusal to make sure that it's all in order always is a good idea. Otherwise if it appears as a block of text, just hit enter at the start of each paragraph and select save. I don't want to use the RTE or I cannot use it: We understand that not everyone can use the RTE and while it is the preferred method of uploading a new chapter, we have enabled the uploader for plain text files only. For the upload to work, you must have it saved as a .txt file and any html coding that you want already in at the time of upload. The HTML tags used previously in the Archive are still the only ones allowed with this method. Editing of uploaded files is allowed via the RTE, however if you are unable to use the RTE the only way to edit existing chapters would be to remove and readd the chapter in question. New Advertising Programs I know I said that we would have a new program for our advertisers today - I apologize, but we are still working out the details of the program we are attempting to launch. We should have this up with the next news! Sorry for the delay! 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 $718.05 stored in PayPal. February's hosting costs are paid and as we have the money to cover March! We have started to amass a small surplus that will allow us to do 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 Rich Text Editor Now that you've had a chance to read some of the basic information about the updates, here is some more detailed information. The rich text editor makes it so that a user can either copy and paste directly from Word or Open Office and maintain their formatting, type in their chapter data and format as they go, or copy and paste as plain text and then format. This takes the place of .html/html uploads, which are a security risk for any php application to begin with. We've been very lucky, to date, to not have had some malicious coding inserted in to the database via an html upload. The user also has the alternative of adding a chapter via a text file upload. The old html tag rules apply to a text upload, and control the formatting of the chapter text. The edit function is controlled with the rich text editor. There is no longer a plain text editor available. Known Issues with the RTE/Related Forum topics Currently, the only known issues are the ones listed above when stories were uploaded in HTML files or if the author simply used the old plain text editor to insert the spacing between paragraphs. For the tech minded out there: The container tags stripped. This is particularly noticeable and a problem with old html from Word exports that were uploaded. The RTE cleans out all the extra html Word always inserts, which means that all the extra div tags it inserts are gone. If you uploaded html which had ONLY the allowed tags, those pages are displayed in the editor as they were before this upgrade, and there is no need to make additional edits unless you choose to. Data which was typed into the text box, and then coded in the text box, is also unaffected by this. Links FAQ: How to add a Chapter (Includes break down of the RTE functions) FAQ: Allowed HTML Tags for Formatting (For those that wish to upload txt files) If you experience any other issues with the RTE that have not been mentioned here, please follow normal procedures to gain Technical Support. Archive Clean Up With the changes made, we are going back over the previously corrected stories from our Archive Clean up to ensure that they are still formatted correctly. However as always, if you know that you were affected by the crash in 2005 and your story was already fixed during clean up we would greatly appreciate your assistance in ensuring the story is still formatted correctly.

*snickers* Yus!

I am pleased to announce that AFF has updated the Add a story/Chapter feature! Now instead of having to remember what coding works with the archive, we have a Rich Text Editor to help with all your uploading and formatting needs! For more information, please check out the following topic: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/19901-rich-text-editor-added/

If it was posted on FanFiction.Net you are sorta looking on the wrong site LOL - We aren't associated with them

*giggles* So someone sent me this link and I had to share. What's the stupidest law in your state? Stupid Laws My fav for my state: Crap - I don't think I can take my car apart that quickly!

Eh, angst happens LOL! No offense taken what so ever! I think we've all done things that we've regretted after the haze of alcohol wears off....

I love the discussions we end up having here - This reminds me of the talk we had about what it feels like when men get hard!

I'm one of them childless peoples and I try to be very friendly...

Please read the following News Post: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/index.php/topic/19504-site-news-1-22-11/ as this question/suggestion has already been discussed there.

Geeks are us!

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Prompt: Drowsy Please remember to follow the rules as outlined here: Rules Happy Writing!

Glad I could be of assistance