FF.net story deletion

Discussion in 'The Index' started by Ash's Boomstick, May 29, 2012.

  1. NOPE.

    It's based on that unusable architecture with non-functioning search technology. I had high hopes for it, but none of the forty or fifty archives using that architecture are functional.

    Edit: Oh, wait, no, I'm wrong. It looks like they're using TTH's architecture. Someone's just decided to make sure the skin looks identical to eFiction 3
  2. zweibach ᛞᛁᚱᛏᛁ ᛃᛟᚲᛖ

    There's no reason not to use both.
  3. JoeHundredaire I posted on SpaceBattles once. It was awful.

    Actually, we deviated from the Storyline code severely when Jay took over. It looks similar for continuity and "I'm too slow to relearn a new interface" purposes, but the back end was almost totally recoded from scratch. I could find the date of the major revision if you're curious; we spent four months using a secondary test server to perfect it before implementing it.
  4. It's more of a question of whether you use eFiction 3 or not. I'll be incredibly impressed if you do, since every other interaction I've had with it has been awful.
  5. Random832 The Coolest

    I'm pretty sure he is talking about TTH, not YFF.
  6. ... I know. Hence my post. I'll be impressed if TFF is based on a efiction 3 shell.
  7. Faralis Ancient onsen master

    It´s me or FF format is broken again?

    all the pages are showing the align centered instead of left or compensated ...

    sigh.
  8. zweibach ᛞᛁᚱᛏᛁ ᛃᛟᚲᛖ

    Same here and I can't use the dark mode.
  9. amitakartok Antisocial Mecha Fanboy™

    It's been like that for a week or so now. And from the look of it, they probably forgot that some people could view the site with widescreen monitors; if there's a way to expand the column to span the whole browser window once again (without increasing font size), I haven't found it yet.
  10. Random832 The Coolest

    The whole point of having a width limitation is so that people can view it on a widescreen monitor without having to go all the way across it. There is a school of thought, which I happen to agree with, that having each line of a text be too long has a negative effect on readability.
  11. Faralis Ancient onsen master

    This is from the other FF thread:

    I´m using it and it works perfectly. At first I thought it was this what was centering the paragraphs but even with the greasemonkey off still doest not work.
  12. amitakartok Antisocial Mecha Fanboy™

    That script works only on the content section of the site but not the member section.

    They should leave it up to the user. Having a widescreen display text at 4:3 size defeats the whole purpose of having a widescreen.
  13. arthurh3535 Writer

    Basically, you should not have to turn your neck left and right to read a story.
  14. Random832 The Coolest

    The purpose of having a widescreen is, in fact, watching movies, rather than displaying text in a sprawling view two feet wide. The latter is only a side-effect. But anyway, learn some CSS and you can put together your own stylesheet to view it however you want, using Greasemonkey or Stylish (I myself have a Stylish script to make Spacebattles posts show up in a narrower column)
  15. amitakartok Antisocial Mecha Fanboy™

    LCD or not, if you have to turn your neck to read from a monitor then you're sitting way too close to it anyway.

    Doesn't mean we can't display text in a sprawling view ~61 cm wide if we want to.
  16. Wakka Drive Systems

    If you're not using noscript (and dear god why not, man?), just turn off javascript on FF.net while you're reading a story {EDIT: Wait, no. For some reason that centers all the text. I have no idea why it does that}. If you are, you can just turn off googleapis.com for the same effect.
  17. amitakartok Antisocial Mecha Fanboy™

    Because AdBlockPlus already does what I would use noscript for anyway.
  18. Robo Jesus Your Mechanical Messiah

    Sometimes Adblock misses something. Noscript covers the shit Adblock can sometimes miss.
  19. stormbringer951 Lingering Shadow

    This is the wrong way to use NoScript :(
  20. NexusCell This is why we can't have nice things.

    Wow. Just looked at CU and LU and it seems they are run by complete assholes.


    Someone should go Team Avolition on their asses!
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  21. Wakka Drive Systems

    Oho? And here I thought the purpose of Noscript was to allow one to use javascript from reliable websites (to let them function), and cut out anything unreliable (Like, say, ad networks [or Twitter. Or Facebook. Or the 10,000 other social networking bullshit javascript sites that slow the web to a crawl]). I thought it was to aid me against other miscellaneous web scripting attacks like XSS and frames. I fail to see why temporarily cutting out reliable websites for a wanted effect is a bad thing. Unless, of course, you believe that the purpose of Noscript is to disable javascript universally; in which case I have bad news. You can do that without a plugin. Assuming you've bothered to look at your browser's settings.

    I very rarely allow a website to use all of its wanted scripts. For example, on Spacebattles I have two of five allowed: Spacebattles itself, and googleapis. How do you think Noscript should be used, just for the record?
  22. Vlad III Indeed, Mr. Watson.

    That is the entire point of a site where people could post whatever they want. I do not want censorship in any measure as those that do the censoring are few and may censor something I like. The same goes for me doing it as I don't want to push my opinion into denying someone something they might want to read.

    Censoring would not be worth it if there were a 1000 bad fics for everyone I would read as of the thousand I consider bad someone else might like it and if people don't then it would die on its own as most people usually avoid reading unrecd fics or quickly realize how shitty it is and review it poorly. Driving other potential readers away.

    Ban spammers and trolls, but not someone for seemingly breaking a social convention or taboo. That way leads only to things like what happened to RaaB though most likely with a less outcry.

    IF DO NOT LIKE IT, DON'T READ!

    Or review it so other don't read it.
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  23. ShadowPhoenix Dark Lord of Shadows

    Yeah, they are not nice people.
    I think some may actually be moderators.
  24. stormbringer951 Lingering Shadow

    From the way you said it, I assumed that you had NoScript set to globally allowed, and was turning off js for certain websites as opposed to disallowing globally and whitelisting websites as appropriate.

    Good to hear that's not the case. :)
  25. Harry Leferts That Suave Kaiju

    ... You remember how they deleted RaaB for the title because they're "Cleaning" up the site, right? And how now we can see Avatars...

    Because I just saw a K-rated story where the author's avatar is a fucking naked Hitler in the Harry/Hermione section! The fucking hell!?

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