READ ME: Validation/Password Reset Issues

[Desiderius Price]

Ditto… while it works on Chromium, won’t work on Firefox (which is the one I prefer to use here).  Was also annoying while trying to find my story statistics (which I do daily/more-often-if-fresh-posted)

[DemonGoddess]

One of the things you have to do is to force clear for ALL TIME with cache and cookies. I have been able to login successfully by doing that.

[JayDee]

Heya, I’ve cleared absolutely everything for all time, restarted, and went to log in – got an error message on log in, but then I was seemingly logged in anyway as I could see my control panel. 

The only real issue I have noticed is that when not logged in, the “Originals” domain does not show on the archives menu at all for me – It showed the anime, and books comics manga, then a list from Buffy to Television – Tried that on Firefox and Edge. 

Then I logged in, and suddenly the originals link was showing above the “anime” link on the archive drop down menu.

So I logged out, cleared everything again, went back… no originals link on the menu again! I can send you screencap if it would help, though I expect someone already mentioned it on beta. 

I know you are all busy working on it so just dropping the two things I noticed here and running :) It’s all looking good and the new functionality sounds amazing, and I am grateful for all the work you’ve all put into it. 

[Desiderius Price]

One lighter annoyance… when refreshing specific story stats, puts me back to the profile page, instead of leaving me on stats.  (Thus, have to navigate back in.)

[manta2g]

I apologize for the hiccups during the upgrade. I missed a few files that controlled Ajax settings, and they were still pointing to the beta. While the bulk of the upgrade happened last night, with 640 files involved in the new site software I was bound to miss something, which is why we had the end time set to Monday evening.

[BronxWench]

1 hour ago, JayDee said:

Heya, I’ve cleared absolutely everything for all time, restarted, and went to log in – got an error message on log in, but then I was seemingly logged in anyway as I could see my control panel. 

The only real issue I have noticed is that when not logged in, the “Originals” domain does not show on the archives menu at all for me – It showed the anime, and books comics manga, then a list from Buffy to Television – Tried that on Firefox and Edge. 

Then I logged in, and suddenly the originals link was showing above the “anime” link on the archive drop down menu.

So I logged out, cleared everything again, went back… no originals link on the menu again! I can send you screencap if it would help, though I expect someone already mentioned it on beta. 

I know you are all busy working on it so just dropping the two things I noticed here and running :) It’s all looking good and the new functionality sounds amazing, and I am grateful for all the work you’ve all put into it. 

Originals is now showing for me as a separate dropdown link, right before Fan Fiction which has all the other subdomains. 

[DemonGoddess]

I quite like that Originals has its own menu separate from the fanfiction.

[JayDee]

46 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

Originals is now showing for me as a separate dropdown link, right before Fan Fiction which has all the other subdomains. 

When logged out The bar just shows “Home” “Fanfiction” and “Forum” options without originals option – When logged in it also has eg Account drop downs you don’t get logged out. I wonder if it’s something to do with the way Firefox is loading the bar when logged out? I just logged out, originals disappeared, logged back in, there it was! 

[JayDee]

58 minutes ago, manta2g said:

I apologize for the hiccups during the upgrade. I missed a few files that controlled Ajax settings, and they were still pointing to the beta. While the bulk of the upgrade happened last night, with 640 files involved in the new site software I was bound to miss something, which is why we had the end time set to Monday evening.

You shouldn’t have to apologize for anything! You’re doing great work, nobody was sitting here expecting it all to be 100% through straight away I am sure  Thanks for all the effort and work!

[manta2g]

4 minutes ago, JayDee said:

When logged out The bar just shows “Home” “Fanfiction” and “Forum” options without originals option – When logged in it also has eg Account drop downs you don’t get logged out. I wonder if it’s something to do with the way Firefox is loading the bar when logged out? I just logged out, originals disappeared, logged back in, there it was! 

Try doing a forced reload CTRL+F5, sometimes it takes a bit of force for changes to show up.

[JayDee]

I went and re-cleared all the cache and the rest of it again and that seems to have done it – originals showing now

Thank you again! 

[BronxWench]

1 hour ago, DemonGoddess said:

I quite like that Originals has its own menu separate from the fanfiction.

I completely agree! I write a lot of original work, and I love knowing it will be out there proudly.

 

[InBrightestDay]

Hi, everyone!

So while I can sign in here on the forums, I’m experiencing a problem with signing in on the main site.  I hadn’t logged in for a bit, and the site updated, and today when I typed my email and password in, a box popped up that reads “Please activate your account first.  Check your email for the activation link.”

The problem being...there is nothing in my inbox.  I checked spam, and there’s nothing there either.  Has anyone else experienced this problem since the update?

[BronxWench]

3 minutes ago, InBrightestDay said:

Hi, everyone!

So while I can sign in here on the forums, I’m experiencing a problem with signing in on the main site.  I hadn’t logged in for a bit, and the site updated, and today when I typed my email and password in, a box popped up that reads “Please activate your account first.  Check your email for the activation link.”

The problem being...there is nothing in my inbox.  I checked spam, and there’s nothing there either.  Has anyone else experienced this problem since the update?

I’m showing you as needing to reactivate. I don’t know if this is a function of the update or not, but if you haven’t cleared your cache and cookies for all time, that might also be an issue. (This is the step I frequently forget, and DG is kind enough not to laugh at me for it.)

[DemonGoddess]

10 minutes ago, InBrightestDay said:

Hi, everyone!

So while I can sign in here on the forums, I’m experiencing a problem with signing in on the main site.  I hadn’t logged in for a bit, and the site updated, and today when I typed my email and password in, a box popped up that reads “Please activate your account first.  Check your email for the activation link.”

The problem being...there is nothing in my inbox.  I checked spam, and there’s nothing there either.  Has anyone else experienced this problem since the update?

I activated you, you no longer show as pending.  Try again

[InBrightestDay]

1 minute ago, DemonGoddess said:

I activated you, you no longer show as pending.  Try again

It works now!  Thank you! ❤️

Edited 3 hours ago by InBrightestDay

[InBrightestDay]

3 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

I don’t know if this is a function of the update or not, but if you haven’t cleared your cache and cookies for all time, that might also be an issue. (This is the step I frequently forget, and DG is kind enough not to laugh at me for it.)

I also did this just now, so that might have played a part.  Sorry for being a bit behind everyone else. 😅

[InBrightestDay]

I actually wanted to say a bit more here, not just to apologize for speaking up here before seeing if clearing the browsing history would help (I knew it fixed an issue with the age verification button, but arbitrarily assumed this problem was completely different), but also to say something I think goes unsaid a lot.

I know @DemonGoddess and folks like @manta2g do a lot of work behind the scenes and may be stretched very thing, since donations can be scarce.  I just wanted to say that I appreciate everything you all do, especially when something happens with the site and I’m suddenly anxious about what to do, as happened just now.  I’ve never really interacted directly with either of you, but since I know that sysadmin can be a stressful job and can feel very unappreciated, I just wanted you to know that I don’t take you for granted, and that what you do for the site and for the people here means a lot to me.

Edited 2 hours ago by InBrightestDay

[DemonGoddess]

52 minutes ago, InBrightestDay said:

I actually wanted to say a bit more here, not just to apologize for speaking up here before seeing if clearing the browsing history would help (I knew it fixed an issue with the age verification button, but arbitrarily assumed this problem was completely different), but also to say something I think goes unsaid a lot.

I know @DemonGoddess and folks like @manta2g do a lot of work behind the scenes and may be stretched very thing, since donations can be scarce.  I just wanted to say that I appreciate everything you all do, especially when something happens with the site and I’m suddenly anxious about what to do, as happened just now.  I’ve never really interacted directly with either of you, but since I know that sysadmin can be a stressful job and can feel very unappreciated, I just wanted you to know that I don’t take you for granted, and that what you do for the site and for the people here means a lot to me.

Manta is our coder and when she makes a suggestion about site code, I listen to her.  

While I was working abominable hours, BronxWench and all the other moderators picked up the slack for me.  For years, all I did was work and sleep.  

I certainly appreciate the acknowledgement, but, there are others more deserving of it, such as manta2g, BronxWench, Melrick, etc.  I’ve only just recently (the past few months) become more active like I should be.  It’s taken over a year to recover from the years of overwork.

[BronxWench]

I think all of us on staff feel the same way about the site. It’s a home online for us all, and we all want to make this site a haven for our members. We all have each other’s backs, and honestly, I can’t imagine not being a part of AFF.

And that goes for all our members, too. I’ve gotten to know some of you, and I thoroughly enjoy feeling like I can make friends here like all of you. 

[InBrightestDay]

24 minutes ago, DemonGoddess said:

I certainly appreciate the acknowledgement, but, there are others more deserving of it, such as manta2g, BronxWench, Melrick, etc.

I understand.  I knew Manta was involved heavily in site-related matters, and you’ve always been around as well, whether you were formally working here or just struggling to survive your job (I’ve been there).  My apologies for not also mentioning Bronx and @Melrick

24 minutes ago, BronxWench said:

I think all of us on staff feel the same way about the site. It’s a home online for us all, and we all want to make this site a haven for our members. We all have each other’s backs, and honestly, I can’t imagine not being a part of AFF.

And that goes for all our members, too. I’ve gotten to know some of you, and I thoroughly enjoy feeling like I can make friends here like all of you. 

Thank you. I don’t know everyone here, and I don’t always talk, but this is also how I feel about this site.  thank you for all that you’ve done for the site, and as with all the others, even if I don’t really say too much, please know how grateful I am for all of it. ❤️

[DemonGoddess]

@InBrightestDay No apologies needed for not mentioning the others, silly.