Registration and login-
Starting approximately mid December of this year, how a user registers and signs in to the archive will be changing. This will be done by using your email address to sign in to the archive. The email address field will be set to unique, and the new registrations will be sent a validation email to finish registering. For changing email addresses, current users will also be sent a validation email. As these kinds of emails are generated by a php script, please do be sure to check spam/junk folders for them.
Passwords will be encrypted, so one will have to use the utility to retrieve/reset a password from the archive. Staff will no longer be able to retrieve password information for users once this is done.
Allowed Characters in login AND pen names-
a-z
A-Z
0-9
'
- (dash or minus sign)
_ (underscore)
Using anything other than these characters will make it so the name is not usable. So, if you are right now, please change your pen name before December, to get rid of the illegal characters.
Duplicate registrations-
As registration will be governed by email address, what's going to happen, is if you have multiple accounts, you won't be able to login until I merge those accounts. So please, if you know you have more than one, contact me at technicalsupport@adult-fanfiction.org with links to all profiles. This way, you do not lose your data. It's merged in to the account you wish to keep.
Search engine upgrade-
As you all know, we upgraded the core for search some time ago. However, with the age of the script, and the fact that the bulk of it is still php3, we cannot implement it in the current script. It crashes everything.
Script overhaul-
I'll go in to details for this probably next month. We expect to launch sometime in January, after we test it out and make sure we won't be crashing anything.
There are many new features which I'm quite sure will make everyone happy.