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FF.net goes on strike & schadenfreude ensues
I can't be the only one amused by the fact that fanfiction.net goes down (or at least, their login authentication does) and LJ rant communities have a collective meltdown. Heh!
There's been a rumor (let me stress RUMOR) floating around that part of the reason for the outage is that FF.net is purging all M-rated fics. This seems unlikely to me (given the source - the Twilight IMDB board, aheh), considering the site is not in read-only mode, and that some people have been able to get through and update their stuff / review / favorite, but apparently back in the day, when FF.net decided to purge NC-17 fics, they did it under the guise of taking the site down "in remembrance" of 9/11. So, take that as you will.
All I can say is - thank Jeebus we still have Media Miner! At least we anime/manga fic writers aren't going through withdrawals quite as bad as those poor souls only on FF.net, LOL...
ETA: The source of the afore-mentioned rumor. Twilight wank, anyone? LOL.
There's been a rumor (let me stress RUMOR) floating around that part of the reason for the outage is that FF.net is purging all M-rated fics. This seems unlikely to me (given the source - the Twilight IMDB board, aheh), considering the site is not in read-only mode, and that some people have been able to get through and update their stuff / review / favorite, but apparently back in the day, when FF.net decided to purge NC-17 fics, they did it under the guise of taking the site down "in remembrance" of 9/11. So, take that as you will.
All I can say is - thank Jeebus we still have Media Miner! At least we anime/manga fic writers aren't going through withdrawals quite as bad as those poor souls only on FF.net, LOL...
ETA: The source of the afore-mentioned rumor. Twilight wank, anyone? LOL.