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Oh, that's it. Buh bye, ff.net. I used it back in the day, and now it's become more habit than anything else. But

aj just let me know that they've actually gone and removed story breaks from existing fics because "We do not support dash or other character based section/scene markers." In the past I got around their stupid 'you must put a giant horizontal line in your fic' by using things like -*- so they wouldn't get deleted in the upload. (Which would happen if you simply had a single asterisk or a dash.) Because I liked it that way.

So. My fics there no longer have story breaks.

This includes my 28,000 word fic which now just all runs together. Like hell I'm going to go in and edit this thing. Or any of it.

I'd delete my account there if I could figure out how. *deletes stories one by one* I don't want them left there if they're big blobs, and you are NOT worth editing for, ff.net.

ETA: HAR! All stories deleted. Excellent.

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As an anal-retentive formatting freak, I totally understand your pain. You should see my reaction when I can't get the LJ formatting to be consistent when I post a story. Or a regular journal entry, for that matter.

There's a reason I always use plain text and code my own html - I can't stand rich text because something usually goes buggy.

And I really really hate that horizontal html line. A whole lot.

I am slowly coming to love plain text and will (hopefully) soon have a firm grasp of html. I actually forced myself to start learning it because the rich text was driving me batty.

Or batty-er, as the case may be. *g*

I really wish googledocs did plain text as well. Documents that automatically format drive me insane.

Clueless icon FTW!

The world according to Cher. *g*

"We do not support dash or other character based section/scene markers."

Um, what? They went in and edited people's existing content because they like horizontal lines?

Not that I've ever even thought about posting to the giant monkey house that is ff.net, but man, if people thought Teaspoon had gotten all high and mighty (well, so long as your fic is Doctor/Rose *ahem*), ff.net wins the Asshat Mods of the Year sweepstakes.

Yup, scene breaks were all removed unless you had their horizontal line in there. I opened my Inertia fic to find a giant blob of words.

Yeah, screw that.

Um... yeah. No.

Published works have scene breaks in them within chapters. There's a readability purpose for putting them in.

YOU DON'T go take them out.

Ugh, if they're doing this, I can just imagine what a couple of my fics look like now. Guess I'll add that to my weekend projects - removing fics.

Published works have scene breaks in them within chapters. There's a readability purpose for putting them in.

YOU DON'T go take them out.

EXACTLY. I could see doing it on a go-forward basis, but modifying stuff that's been on there for years? NO THANKS.

Ugh, if they're doing this, I can just imagine what a couple of my fics look like now. Guess I'll add that to my weekend projects - removing fics.

Have fun.

The only way to delete your account is to email them and they'll get to it eventually. It's a pain but it was a huge relief afterwards.

They are morons.

That is incredibly lame. Talk about creating work for yourself to not have that automated.

LOL. I don't think I've been to that site since they deleted all the NC-17 stories in .. 2003? or so. I'm not surprised that they're still mucking it up. >:(

I remember when that happened. Heh. Poof! Gone.

*reads*
*reads again*

WTF?

*rushes over to ff.net*
*reads one her crappy 'thangs' she knows has ****** in it*

Oh, FCOL!

*HEADDESK*

The online Big Brother mentality is seriously beginning to piss me off.
That kind of seemingly worthless yet intrusive interference should have a name and an acronym.

*seethes 'cos her crap fic looks even crappier now*

The online Big Brother mentality is seriously beginning to piss me off.

And this - why does this matter to them? They've just mucked up probably thousands of fics by doing this.

That kind of seemingly worthless yet intrusive interference should have a name and an acronym.

M.O.R.O.N.S.

That's the one!

Well, SHIT.

*adds it to the week from hell tally list*

I think I said 'buh-bye' to ff.net when they changed my username - without telling me - from Jojo to Jojo6. Dude. Not on.

Oh that's right! And so very wrong since you were the first Jojo after all. (Not JoJo.)

Exactly.

Lookie! Ianto! *matches with own Ianto icon*

These people hate logic. And fun.

Like I commented up above, I could see them requiring this going forward, but to suddenly smush years-worth of fics? And I know that a LOT of people used the asterisk or dash scene break - it's pretty standard. That's all kinds of crappy.

Oh, man, how annoying. Sadly, I'm not sure I can even be bothered to go over there and delete my stories one by one.

HEH. I probably wouldn't have cared, but I was just so irked about it. And the delete button was sooooo therapeutic.

I ended up editing my profile to say "Hey, ff.net messed with my stories. They now read funny. So you should go to my website instead. It's cooler there anyway." Heh.

I did something similar. :D

BRAIN.

Holy crap...

While I respect the rights of websites to go as bugfuck insane as they desire, a little warning would be nice, you know?

A little less stupidity would be nicer but it is ff.n, after all.

Yeah, an email would have been nice. "WARNING. Your stories are about to be changed!"

They might have had something on their news page about it, but who hangs out there?

*bashes keyboard* WTF is with this image thing when I log in? Half the time those images aren't even readable to me, someone with young eyes. Heaven forbid your eyesight is impaired beyond what glasses can fix!

Also, I may follow your lead on this (if I can manage to log in, that is). Too many of my stories rely on line-breaks that aren't theirs (theirs look sloppy and umb to me, and I would always rather use my own). But going back and editing past content? Fuck them. Gah. Teaspoon is far preferrable to this.

It's really become way too much of a pain in the butt to use. I'm not sure why exactly I kept using for so long, but this was the push I needed to stop.

It has, and I hadn't really noticed it, because I'd only put stuff on there half the time, less if it was in Who-fandom. However, I think I need to leave some of my non-Who stories up. The popular few that aren't anywhere else on the net and are very, very early things.

'Course, if LJ doesn't shape up soon, I don't know what I'll do...

Times like this, and it really is nice to have my own fic site. I don't have to worry about stuff like this.

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