peopleofthedas | the unbearable agony of fanfiction.net

Did you know fanfiction.net is broken?
No, really!
FFnet seems to be working again. It let me go in and edit the flagged characters on a story I uploaded using the workaround.
However, I'm still waiting on notifications for the new story, and about a dozen review notices (as well as notices for new chapters of fics I follow), so YMMV. I don't know if the errors and issues are unrelated.

To update your existing story:
Proceed as normal, go to “my stories” in the publish section, and click edit next to the fic in question.
You get a horrid error message, yes?
Change “property” to “content” in the URL and you’ll see the familiar update screen. From there you’re all set.

If you want to post a new story things get more complex.
Pick a random category, most have been using “dragon rage” under games since, well, close enough. Get your description exactly how you want it, and try to include any info about the characters involved. You can’t tag them, since you’re in the wrong category.

Upload as normal. Click on edit in the my stories section, and change the category. You’ll see that same ugly error, but within half an hour or so it should be in the Dragon Age section. Once it’s there you can’t edit the description or tag characters since, hey, lookie, another fucking error. (which is why you want to get your description right and name your characters the first go-round).

But it’ll be posted.

There are also alternatives if you want to wash your hands of the mess completely.

Livejournal/Dreamwidth...

pros: easy to update thanks to the rich text editor (you can just paste from your word processor), you're already here, communities for fandoms *yo*
cons: smaller reader base, isn't really set up for a fiction archive

DeviantArt
pros: wickedly easy to update if you've already posted the chapter to your documents section in ffnet. (open it, click the HTML button, copy, and paste into the text section of DeviantArt's update. Boom.). Also, decent sized DA community.
cons: not as big a com as ffnet, more geared towards visual arts, no way to give a written summary/description for the search feature. Wheat to chaff? horrifying.

Archive of Our Own
Pros: you can import from ffnet by pasting your url, additional servers have clearly solved their slow-as-molasses problems, posting new chapters is as easy as ffnet, or easier. Also supports co-authors, tagging stories as part of a series, and a few other nice features
cons: small community, lack of feedback, importing will require you tweak each chapter since notes invariably come out a hot mess, in beta so you need to sign up and wait to get an invite (didn't take long for me, but with ffnet's issues it may be longer now)

note: anyone want an invite? Users can apparently request extra invite codes so I'd be happy to give it a shot.
(FYI, I'm LupusYondergirl over there)

Lunaescence
I admit, I know next to nothing about this, beyond it being 'moderated' for quality. There's only about 50 DA stories on there now. Anyone have an opinion?

Anyone have any opinions on these, or know of any I missed?
I know I left BSN off. There's a reason for that... the DA2 community creation forum allows LINKING to your fan works, as opposed to the posting that was allowed in the DAO forums.

I'm kind of falling in love with AO3 again, now that it's so much faster. I've uploaded EVERYTHING there... and it took me maybe two hours.

the unbearable agony of fanfiction.net

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