Greetings to all my loyal readers! I’m taking a break from my regular update schedule to share—

Yes, my schedule. Stop laughing.

I decided to toss in a little bonus review episode here! Rather than my usual format of “three stories reviewed by three sock-accounts each”, I’m trying something a little different. Here instead, I’m running with as many accounts as I feel inspired to write, each of them picking a different story and a different reviewing style. I figured this would be something new and interesting for you guys!

Because I write all of these. Me, Wanderer D. I write all the reviews in every round, plus I also write all these intros and outros. I mean, from the comments, you guys clearly already know this, but I just wanted to put it in writing, just so we’re clear. I’m the guy who makes this all happen. Just me. By myself.

Latias is such a sexy Pokemon.

Dear Fimfiction,

It is with bittersweet regret that I must speak to you today.

As of today, I, knighty, will no longer run and maintain Fimfiction.net. Instead, I relinquish full control of the site to my best friend and homosexual life partner , Poultron.

I'm making this decision for a number of reasons; chief among them is the fact that I've grown tired of the site. I've been asking for months for a proper sequel to My Little Dashie, and you guys just haven't written enough of them. In addition, after the recent changes to the site went over less than well, a disgruntled Fimfiction user hired a contract killer to bludgeon my fingers. As a result, I have been unable to code for weeks, and am dictating this post through my secretary, Wlah.

I see this as a mostly positive change in the long run. Getting away from ponies will allow me to pursue my true passion of opera singing, and I've heard that Poultron already has some great changes planned for the site - you should be able to see some of his ideas implemented before the end of the day.

To everyone on the site: thank you for years of fanfiction, and for your hours of sanctimonious bitching at the free website I gave you. I know that Poultron will carry the same spirit of passive conflict avoidance I tried to hold myself to, and I wish him and you all the best in Fimfiction's future.

Until the next great fandom,

knig-knog out.

Hey folks! I hope no one missed me too much last week; I was very sick (feeling much better now, thanks for asking) and just couldn't summon up the wherewithal to put one of these together. We had a great turnout for the Favorite Genres poll, and you can check out the summary of results here and grab a copy of the raw data here.

As for this week, we're going back to a simpler format - who is best X, where X is a grouping of various supporting and background characters. I'm quite sure some groupings have been left out; feel free to chastise me, because we can always do more!

Are there any Kansas City bronies out there who might be interested in doing me a favor? PM me if so!

Originally posted to the Vault on 3/15/13.

Today the Vault features its first coltcuddler fic! Why should fillies get all the fun? Stallions can be just as sweet, charming, and adorkable.

[Comedy][Shipping] • 5,200 words

Everyone has things they aren't particularly good at, and we all work to make the best of our weaknesses. Sometimes, though, our weaknesses can prove to be tools of our undoing.

Hit the break for a talk with Butterscotch Cream, and links to Silverware - bane of earth ponies everywhere - out on the ponynet. Don't forget to grab your ebook copy over at the Downloads page!

For us, the cloistered monks of Seattle's Angels, silence is the preeminent charism.

Yesterday I pushed out our latest update to Fimfiction. I didn't really get a chance to talk about new features because as usual I spent the following hours frantically bug fixing. For anyone technical, curious about the initial downtime, it was due to memcache text corruption which would cause it to get stuck polling, meaning the php scripts never finished running. Putting it in binary mode fixed it. Anyway, on to what's changed:

Notifications

I talked about this change quite some time ago. Notifications are now moved into three different sections. Social notifications refer to your comments/comment replies. They are not marked read until you actually read them. This also means that you don't have to keep going to the notifications page to mark them read if you know the new ones are on a story of yours that you're already viewing. You can just refresh the comments and it'll mark them read.

The second type is meta, which is watches and favourites. These are automatically marked as read.

Finally, blog posts and stories are moved to a feed to let you see more of the content straight away. This also shows site news posts.

User data

Story pages, favourite lists and blog posts now have a use bar to the right of them. In there you'll find some basic user information, their top 10 stories and the latest 10 blog posts they made. It also shows groups that a story is in.

Mobile Site

Clearly this part has a lot of issues based on what people are saying but it's something I worked on enormously for this update. Drop down menus should now be functional on phones, and the site in general should be fairly usable on phones now.

Stories

There have been some minor changes to story pages. The like/dislike bar has been merged into a single bar which makes better use of space. Views and comments are shifted to the top right. Story titles will automatically resize based on browser size. Stories with more than 6 chapters will be compressed to just the first and last three, with a clickable link to show the others. This is to save vertical space on stories with a lot of chapters.

Browse page

Clunky filter box has been replaced with an always visible filter box that's much more compact. Type categories/characters in the filter box and press enter to add the selected tag. Click a tag to make it excluded from the query.

Groups Page

Groups page has been added which replaces the old dashboard. Has a box to search for groups, shows the latest groups and has a list of good groups I recommend new users joining.

Misc.

I've removed the user toolbar colour option. It made no sense to not tie it to the banner since that's what determines how aesthetically pleasing it is. I've added a ton more patterns too. The default background has been changed to tan and comment backgrounds will match the hue of whatever you select.

The user cp has also been visually overhauled. The writing guide by Ezn has been added to the drop down menu for the FAQ. Notifications / PMs have been pushed to the top left to make better use of space and accentuate the fact that they're different.

Originally posted to the Vault on 3/8/13.

When your name is Twilight Sparkle and you're living in Ponyville, even the most average of days can end up becoming an adventure.

[Adventure] • 6,700 words

In a world full of magic, mere words can carry viruses. When reading any correspondence or signpost could infect the unwary, and cases are starting to turn up around Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle casts the one spell that can give her time: the Curse of Illiteracy. Now she has to figure out how to stop the epidemic... without being able to read

Hit the break for a chat with Nonsanity, and links to Words Failed Her out on the ponynet. As always, grab your own ebook copy over at the Downloads page!

Gah, the delay!

Anyway, yes, it's that time again for an online panel hosted by yours truly, Arcainum and the good graces of Alexstrasza!

This time on the menu we have three prolific authors for whom, I'm sure, you have plenty of questions!

So, prepare you razor-sharp wit and curious minds... and write down some questions in the comments section for:

The date will be: Sunday 17th of March

The venue will be: Alexstrazsa's Livestream

The time will be: 3PM EDT

Hey folks! A day late and a dollar short, but I'm back with the results and raw data from last week's poll.

To the 257 of you who voted for "Winter Wrap Up" as best S1 musical number, congratulations! Each one of you is the smartest and most attractive person alive. Also, interesting just how close "Smile" and "This Day Aria" were in S2!

That brings us to this week's poll - and enough about the show itself, let's talk about you. Yes, you! You're on a ponyfic site, so you must like to read or write. But what kinds of stories do you enjoy?

And if you have something you'd like to see polled, sing out in the comments!

Welcome all to the latest Groups Post!