Fimfiction Advanced 4.6 - The Blast from the Past Update! · 6:18pm Jun 5th, 2021

I told y'all I'd be making an update. I told you.

After many weeks and months spent meticulously digging through the deepest reaches of the internet...

Dipping into the darkest depths of the internet archive, probing the inner recesses of archive.is...

New friends were made. Old friends were reunited, and then subsequently fell out of touch, then reunited again with each other once again...

I have delved beyond the veil. I have known the face of god, and I have found his online portfolio.

Now, I return to you, bringing a gift...

This update brings back several old pieces of Fimfiction's history from beyond the grave. I present to you:

9 New Old Banners

Fields (my personal favourite)

Fluttershy-Pinkie

Fall-Weather-Friends

Flutter-Cloudchaser

Reu Fluttershy

Rarijack

Stealth

Twidash

Twixie

21 Nostalgic Backgrounds & Patterns

You want backgrounds? We got backgrounds. You want patterns? We got patterns out the wazoo!

Notable (nostalia-ridden) background choices include:

Day Town
Night Town
Old Apple House
Memories
Trees
Trees 2
Clouds
Christmas

Also featuring several new, never-before-seen, and updated backgrounds, such as:

An all new Rainbow Dash image
Revised Pinkie and Twilight patterns
Big City
School House

For maximum nostalgia factor, I recommend the cloud pattern with day town, and a background colour of #d9e5f0. (results pictured above)

(disclaimer: some patterns might not work. Recovering them is an ongoing procress. If you think you have any of Fimfiction's old background patterns or know where to find them, comment, or send me a DM on here or Discord. I'll be sure to have them added post-haste.)

And that's everyth-

What's that? You need more?

Well okay, I've got more! I've got a LOT MORE!

5 New NEW Banners

Default Set

Yakovlev Zecora

Extended Set

Moe Balloon

Moe Twilight

Symbian Izzy-Sunny

Symbian Sci-Twi

A Feature Box Improvement

Only one improvement... If you click into the feature box you can navigate between stories by holding control and using the up/down arrow keys. It's fun! Try it!

Weeeeeee.......!

Bug Fixes

So many bug fixes! Too many to count!

Banners now support multiple sources! They appear as hashtags on the banner selector.
Massively improved page rewrite performance! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....! No more flashes of the original site when visting heavily modified pages. Backgrounds are also applied immediately.

Full Changelog for the techies

The banner selector will now remember which tab you're on when refreshing the page
Massive rewrites and restructuring to make my life easier
Added support for multiple banner source links
Fixed various dead links in banner source
Fixed a broken link in the site footer
Fixed formatting of the footer link to the banner selector
Fixed banners not animating the change when switching either through the selector or the preview function for custom banners
Moved several utility functions out of the main body of the script
Added support for NSFW banners that only show with "Show Mature" turned on (shhhhh)
Fixed story cover art displaying incorrectly in banners when on chrome
Fixed custom background dialogue not accepting an opacity with fractions between 0 and 1
Sponsor badges will now show the full name (the single-letter approach was... ambiguous)
Fixed the snow generator duplicating/not properly updating when changing the settings
Fixed the "default" background colour not updating the UI properly
Fixed setting a colour manually through the text input not saving/applying at all
Added a button to revert the background colour to the default
Added keyboard navigation when switching between stories in the featured box
Adjusted the glass pattern to be less stark
Removed cringy old background images
Reduced the size of the wool pattern image
Added "Dots" background pattern
Added "Flowers 2" background pattern (and fixed tiling)
Removed some dated banners form the "Extended" set (sorry, they just weren't up to my current standards. I'm replacing them with new ones though!)

Also I'm aware knighty is working on an update to Fimfiction itself. It will most likely cause some parts of Fimfiction Advanced to break, though I have no way to tell which parts exactly until the update actually drops. This is part of why I'm releasing 4.6 now, and not later. Even though I don't have all the patterns yet, I still wanted to get this out so people have the time to use it before knighty breaks everything.

As always, download links below! Keep pony, my friends!