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开云体育I really doubt that FFN is going away -- they must have far too much ad revenue based on what I saw while I was testing ffdl. I was using it in clean virtual machines, so I didn't have any ad blockers. I was shocked at the number and size of the ads on the pages. They must make it exceptionally hard to read anything.m In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. On 9/26/22 10:03, Patrick Cross wrote:
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First I heard anything about a potential shut diwn was a email posted by someone. Cant remember name? About a week ago saying it was 'falling apart", updates weren't working, stats not adding etc... and claiming owners abandoned site. Clearly not true. I check almost daily an seen no issues with stats or updates. I've posted updates myself on stories that were live within a short time and received review alerts and everything seems to be working. Another menrioned that site was migrating to new servers. On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, 10:51 am Alex Cherry, <raginginsincerity@...> wrote: I don't know what started the rumor that FFN was shutting down, but I would say that I've seen no indication of it.? The site is up, running well, and making lots of ad revenue as far as I can see.? I find it highly unlikely that they'd shut it down. |
开云体育This isn't the first time this rumor has popped up and I doubt it will be the last. I've been a registered user for 17 years (and reading on it for 19) and I've lost count of the number of times it was being sold or shut down or whatever else someone pulled out of their, erm, butt. All that Cloudflare protection isn't cheap, so I suspect it will around for a long while.Mike In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird.? Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. On 9/28/22 21:25, Marcel wrote:
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Whatever the truth, IMNSHO, it is still a good idea to keep your own, local copy of anything you enjoyed reading, just in case it gets pulled for whatever reason. Alysson On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 22:17, Karen Lewellen <klewellen@...> wrote: Personally, I will believe it when I stop getting cloudflare stuff when |
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Yup. It's why I've been archiving for 20 years.
It's a fun project!!! Frustrating lately with the Fanfiction net stuff, but I'm
so happy a few people are working on downloaders still. I remember the days of
grabbing by hand. Each chapter, putting it all together in notepad. Actually I
used to use word. Yikes. And a Braille Note!
Katy
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I've downloaded a fair amount, but nowhere near everything I probably should have. I downloaded a bunch of stories in RTF format, and one of my "maybe if I think about it while rereading" projects is to correct punctuation (I'm a big fan of the Oxford comma), grammar, word choice, and spelling. I do have a DTP package, so I daydream about making proper ebooks, but haven't done anything yet.
And, yes, the FFNET is frustrating - the format appears?designed to be hard to parse. I keep my "stories I've read or plan to read" in a spreadsheet, and a while back, I was looking into writing a Python program that would read the spreadsheet, line by line, then use the URL to look up the story and see if it had been updated. I could probably do something for AO3, but FFNET would not be fun. |
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Me too. Save to floppies at school, get home transfer to my massive 10 Gb hard drive and post up on my geocities site.? Copy paste individual chapters 1 at a time for several hundred stories over the course of YEARS before found first Downloader site and program. Have files dating back to 90s doing this. On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, 8:53 am Katy Todd, <ktlynn687@...> wrote:
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On 9/30/2022 12:55 PM, Steve Wheeler wrote:
I've downloaded a fair amount, but nowhere near everything I probably should have. I downloaded a bunch of stories in RTF format, and one of my "maybe if I think about it while rereading" projects is to correct punctuation (I'm a /big/ fan of the Oxford comma), grammar, word choice, and spelling. I do have a DTP package, so I daydream about making proper ebooks, but haven't done anything yet.There used to be a website called favoritestracker that would do just that. However, Cloudflare stopped it from working on Pit of Voles. |
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I used to do that in the '90s before I had dial-up at home. However I didn't save from fanfiction.net in those days. IIRC ff.net didn't get started until 1998 and I got dial-up around then.
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In any case, before FF.net people used to post on their own private web pages, with a few fan sites hosting multiple authors. I think FF.net was the first to let users upload their own stuff. However, those private websites, or most archive sites that required the authors to e-mail the webmaster for posting the fics had the chapters easily downloaded from an index page. I'd just use that. On 9/30/2022 1:46 PM, Marcel wrote:
Me too. Save to floppies at school, get home transfer to my massive 10 Gb hard drive and post up on my geocities site. |
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