Warning for purges at FFN

[madeleone]

Aurette has posted a cute little tongue in cheek ficlet called The Warning over at FFN. But rumor has it, according to her response to my comment, it is apparently serious. Word has it that stories and sometimes entire accounts are being deleted, especially anything smutty-ish is getting the cut. I don't know how true it is but just wanted to pass on the info as this is the first I have heard of it (this time at least, I've heard that it has happened in the past). So if you have any smutty fave fics that are only posted at FFN, you might want to download them now just in case.

For easy downloading from FFN, as well as a number of other archives, I highly recommend flagfic.com. It is very simple to download and you can have a choice of formats: EPUB, Mobi pocke, PDF, and HTML.

I have fic there, and some of it smutty, but I post at a variety of archives so I'm not too worried about losing my fic.(although I would probably be pissed off the they did get deleted).  Just wanted to give others a heads up though, in case there are fics they want to save...*cough*...Aurette's...*cough* which I believe was the whole point of her story today. ;) (Being the paranoid bitch that I am, I saved them long ago, as well as a whole list of others!)

Comments

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

One of the many reasons I don't particularly care for Ff.net. I didn't even know about it until months after getting into SSHG fanfiction through TPP and Ashwinder. I find their double standard appalling - it's almost as bad as deviantArt.

It's okay to post the most wretched, un-beta'd crap in the world on ff.net, as long as everyone keeps their trousers on. If they drop me, I will hate it because I have several lovely readers there, but I encourage them to switch to a moderated sight all the time.

[madeleone]

While I agree there is a lot of really bad fic at FFN, there is honestly a lot of good stuff there too, but you have to weed through things to find it. And I love TPP and ASH, but sometimes the moderated sites are a little too much so for my tastes. (Having a multi-chaptered story that takes a month or more for each chapter to go through the queue, means it might take a couple years to get a longer story posted). That is a reason I am liking AO3, but I will admit that I don't get as many comments on my stories there as the other sites.