Deadman

I’ve seen a few people talking about writing while the site is in read-only. So I’m just curious how much people are actually getting done? Not to be self-congratulatory but I’m writing quite a bit.

Yeah, that’s why I’m all about writing things ahead of time. I don’t like to change my mind thanks to reader feedback necessarily, but that has more to do with the fact that the story is laid out in my head long before I ever post anything and often written months and sometimes years ahead.

Oh me too. Most of the time my stories are figured out well ahead of time. I had definitely decided when the character was going to appear. But unlike some of my previous work, this wasn’t necessarily an ongoing narrative story. Although I do have those coming up when the site gets rid of the hacker, this one involves one shots. Now I’m thinking maybe I should’ve delayed the release of the chapter featuring the character until later. Maybe it would’ve given me some more reviews.

Well it could also be thanks to the fact that I’m writing in a fandom.

Just curious how much you think about the way to release things. As an example, my story (Scooby Gang Time) had several reviews looking forward to a particular character showing up in the story. Within a few chapters, that character showed up and then reviews dropped off. This was long before the whole hacker situation. Kinda curious if you hold things back from your readers hoping to see certain things. What’s your general policy on this in your writing?

Well, I would say that I have written that stuff, but what I post on this site in particular isn’t very chaste according to your definition. I started out writing stories that don’t really involve getting physical with each other. Now I do both.

Well maybe you should define chaste and avoid mouthing off then. My understanding of it is that I try and hold to the fandom. For instance, I write a lot for the Buffy fandom and they aired on a network that didn’t have swear words or stuff that would be on HBO or the internet. Not sure if that works for your idea of chaste and avoiding mouthing off.

Are you talking about my work specifically or just in general? Because your description sounds like my stuff in many ways but I’ve enjoyed many others who do that on this site.

Totally get it. I have a whole list of stories that I have been planning on writing and right before the problem of this hacker, I was worried that I wasn’t updating fast enough because I’m writing too slow. Now I don’t feel that way. It’s going to be fun when it comes back on and hopefully it’s going to be enjoyed for people.

I figured that. No worries, I’m happy to wait. It’s helpful though because it’s given me time to write more stuff that can get posted when it’s back up.

Okay, just making sure the site is still under read only mode? Curious because I see there’s all kind of discussion on this thread I don’t know I’m going to go through it all. Also, I checked the main archive and it seems like I can go through the main process of adding a new chapter if I wanted to. I assume it’s still in read only mode?

Oh they are building something... a reputation. Things like what they’re doing is what they can use to make themselves seem cool in the hacker population. That’s how they get the much worse jobs they can take.

I do hope things are able to be resolved soon. It’s unfortunate that whoever is hacking the site seems to have such a need to screw with it. The upside though is that I have time to write more stuff. Finished off an entire chapter of a story and starting on another that should finish off the series.

It’s not currently possible to upload a story. The site had a hacker try to make problems for the site. The people in charge of fixing it are working on the issue.

Hey everyone, Just curious, I have a copy of an old fanfic that I found on a site back in the good old days of Yahoo Groups. I remember that the first fanfic which I managed to grab back then but I can’t find the sequel. The original fanfic is an AU Buffy fanfic, I think it was set in season 6 but being AU, it doesn’t matter, and the story is called Angelique. It’s an femmeslash story involving Buffy being captured and taken to an alternate dimension. Anyone know what the sequel is/was called? Maybe a place to find it?

You’re a fan of the story?

My bad. I have a thing about tagging people that probably comes from other social media.

@manta2g Totally get it. I was just kinda wondering, if I have something I want to post, should I? Or would adding more content to the platform slow down or negatively impact your roll out? I wouldn’t want to do anything that would cause a problem, but I also love the idea of being able to post stuff again. I can wait if you think it would help.

@Desiderius Price I did see that. I just didn’t see anything change where I usually post stuff since then. Now I’m seeing it change. I was curious if it was a broader fix.

So, I noticed today that the site seems to be working again. At least in the places I usually go and I can login and everything. Should we wait for a few more fixes before doing anything? Looking forward to posting stuff again.

@BronxWench Okay, I was thinking about what it looks like when we post. Like this. When I first became a member, it wasn’t “link”, it had the full link to my main archive profile. But I see this got fixed. You’re saying this isn’t possible on the main archive. Good to know.

Okay, I know there are places that don’t allow for such things so I wanted to make sure I could here. What’s the code for being able to put it as a text link? I noticed a few people have this on their forum profile. I would love to do both.

Hey so, I’m curious if it’s possible to link to other stories when posting? I have a story that I just finished writing and might want to do a sorta epilogue to it. But I want to post the epilogue as a separate story. I’m kinda wondering if it’s possible to include a link to the original story on which it’s based. That way anyone who checks out the epilogue first can see that it’s part of a longer story. Curious if that’s allowed. Thinking about posting the new story when the archive gets back up completely.

Whatever you feel works best.

@InvidiaRed Obviously I would love it if you reviewed it when the site allows it again. But if you want to let me know what you think, we can always talk about it here.