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  • 24 weeks
    The Day of the Dead Anthology

    The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is a now-famous tradition from ancient times that has been a huge part of Mexican Culture through the centuries. Like so many things in Mexico, it's influenced strongly by certain aspects of the Aztec people.

    It has shaped the way those of us with that heritage look at life and death in many ways, and most importantly on the remembrance of, and honoring the deceased. We traditionally decorate little altars dedicated to the memories of those that passed away… but it's not a somber occasion.

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    22 comments · 4,618 views
  • 25 weeks
    Jinglemas 2023!

    Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!

    Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!

    You only have until November 24th to Sign up!

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    30 comments · 5,792 views
  • 48 weeks
    PSA: Using AIs to Write and Publish Stories in Fimfiction

    Hello everyone, this is a PSA (Public Service Announcement, for those of ESL) to put to rest consistent questions about using AI to 'write' stories and publish them here. This is not intended as a poll or a request for feedback. It is exclusively a clarification on an already-existing rule.

    People ask: "Can I, oh great and powerful D, post a story or chapter that I got ChatGPT to write for me?!"

    And the answer, my friend, is... No.

    Absolutely not. Not in a thousand years!

    Because you didn't write it.

    It is not your creation. You are NOT the author. In fact, you are the opposite.

    There seems to be some confusion when interpreting the following rule:

    Don’t Post (Content)

    [...]

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  • 77 weeks
    Jinglemas 2022!

    Jinglemas is the annual tradition on Fimfiction to exchange stories around the holidays with users on the site. This single event allows all Fimfiction users to come together and celebrate the reason for the season. Ponies!

    Enroll in this Secret-Santa-style gift exchange to request a holiday themed story, to be written secretly by another participant during the month of December. And in turn, you will be tasked with writing someone else's request. Then all the stories will be exchanged at Christmas! Simplicity itself! Thanks to the hard work of the Breezies, everyone will be ensured to get their gift!

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    62 comments · 12,444 views
  • 104 weeks
    Phishing Awareness

    Have you ever found yourself in a situation like this?



    And then you magically find yourself in a suspiciously familiar site, except that you're not logged in, and it requires you to do so?

    Well. Don't log in. This is a scam, and a cheap one at that. 

    There've been recent attempts to obtain Fimfiction users’ personal data, like passwords and/or emails through links like the one I'm making fun of above. And a distressing amount of people don't seem to know what phishing attempts are.

    If you HAVE entered a site like this and put in your data, make sure to follow these basic steps at least.

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    167 comments · 15,419 views
  • 116 weeks
    All Our Best [Royal Canterlot Library]

    As should be obvious from 15 months without a feature, life has taken the Royal Canterlot Library curators in different directions. While there’s still plenty of awesome stories being written in the My Little Pony fandom, we’re no longer actively working to spotlight them, and it’s time to officially draw the project to a close.

    Thank you for all of your support, suggestions, and comments over the years. We’re grateful to have been able to share seven years of exemplary stories with you, and give more insight into the minds behind them. In the spirit of the project, please keep reading and recommending fantastic fics to friends—the community is enriched when we all share what we love.

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  • 120 weeks
    Jinglemas 2021 has come to a close!

    Jinglemas had 114 stories written and exchanged this year!
    You can read them all here, in the Jinglemas 2021 folder!

    Jhoira wrote The Hearths Warming Eve Guest for EngageBook
    GaPJaxie wrote Twilight and Spike Hide a Body for Telly Vision
    SnowOriole wrote The Armor Hypothesis for BaeroRemedy
    snappleu wrote Words Said So Often That They Lack Any Meaning for Trick Question
    NeirdaE wrote Starlight and Trixie Direct a Play for Moosetasm
    Ninjadeadbeard wrote Garland Graveyard Shift for NeirdaE
    Roundabout Recluse wrote Apples to Apples for Ninjadeadbeard
    MistyShadowz wrote The Times We Shared for NaiadSagaIotaOar
    Petrichord wrote A Gentle Nudge for Angel Midnight
    Jade Ring wrote Past, Future, and Present for Frazzle2Dazzle
    Jake The Army Guy wrote The Big Talk for Dreadnought
    The Red Parade wrote Heart Strings for Franso
    Greatazuredragon wrote A Hearth’s Warming Question for GaPJaxie

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  • 151 weeks
    Reunions: A Swapped Roles Contest!

    Okay guys here's something fun presented by Nitro Indigo.

    Presented by me, I guess, but I digress.

    Last year, I (Nitro Indigo) noticed that there was a surprising lack of roleswap fanfics on this site. To fix that, I decided to run a roleswap contest over the summer themed around secrets. While it didn’t get many entries, it nevertheless attracted the attention of some big authors and was the origin of two of my favourite fics. Overall, I think it was a success, so I’ve decided to run another one!

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  • 224 weeks
    Minor Rules and Reporting Update

    Hope everyone is enjoying the new year.

    Some small changes have been made to our rules as well as to the reporting process.

    Rules

    "No attacks directed at individuals or groups due to race, gender, gender identity, religion or sexual identity."

    This better clarifies our previously ill-defined hate speech rule and includes groups as well as individual attacks.

    "No celebration, glorification or encouragement of real life criminal activity."

    This includes past, present and potential future crimes.

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    747 comments · 15,912 views
  • 226 weeks
    Jinglemas 2019

    There's truly no time like the holidays. What's better than copious amounts of food, quality time with family and friends, hearing the sweet sound of Trans-Siberian Orchestra on repeat, and unmanagble financial stress from our capitalist overlords?

    Gift exchanges of course!


    Our Own Little Way of bringing Hearth's Warming to Fimfiction

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Aug
4th
2012

Site Post » Emails · 3:38am Aug 4th, 2012

As you've no doubt noticed if you're logged in, you'll have a message at the top of the screen saying you need to verify your email. As part of our server move we've had to update a lot of our email practices, and marking all emails as unverified was a necessary part of that process. Just click the link and you'll be able to verify your email.

Let me know if you have any issues. Updating your email in your profile will also prompt a reverification, but note you cannot do this more than once an hour.

You also now receive emails when people reply to your comments on blog post comments which wasn't enabled before. (Assuming you have the option selected in your profile)

If your verification failed, try again now, it should be fixed

EDIT: We haven't moved servers yet.

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I clicked to verify, got the email, and clicked the link in the email, but it said there was an issue validating my email.

I have seen no such message

Thanks for being prompt

> There was an issue validating your email.

It keeps telling me that "There was an issue validating your email." What should I do?

268011 up at the top, above the bar with knighty's info

Inb4everycommentis "issue validating your email" related.

P.S; I'm having issues validating my email.

knighty
Site Owner

268010
268015

I accidently had a bit of code wrong in there when I uploaded it initially, you you might have done it before then. Does your email link have a blank code value in it?

Great, no matter how many times I refresh it, the captcha is displaying weird characters like pi and at least half of it is completely garbled. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Queen_Chrysalis.png

Same with the "issue validating" here. Just sit tight and wait? Yup. Maybe we're spamming the service?

I'm getting an issue and I think I know why. The "code=" field in the link is left blank. That is, it goes http://www.fimfiction.net/index.php?view=validate_email&user=1400&code=

Just a guess, mind you, but it's what stands out.

Same problem, Issue validating email.

Edit: Email has a value for code, but it doesn't work.

Same as the others, got an "Issue verifying." message

268021

No, I tried it just now when you made this blog post.

268017
This might be because I adblocked that space when Knighty put up that banner when the Mic the microphone thing happened, because I was annoyed at it being there and the message it had

268010
Same for me.

Edit: and with the fix and a new email sent, it works. Yay.

I verified it, but the link in the email just led me to a blank screen that still had the "You are unverified" message on it.

I can't validate my email either. I'm also getting the blank code.

knighty
Site Owner

God damnit. Found what was wrong. Those of you who failed can try again.

Get the same error validating, but there's definitely a code in the link.

Edit: tried again and it's working now.

Yah im getting the same "Issue with validating your email" message like everyone else

Pretty weird, I just did it and the tool bar stills says the email isn't verified. I logged out and logged back in to make sure, this thing's not going away. Help?

I just tried it, clicking my verification e-mail sent me to a page saying there was an issue with my e-mail

268037 Much better. Thank you.

I didnt even get the email. lemme check some stuff

268037 Working now! :D

And done. :scootangel:

268021 I didn't look at the link, I just clicked when it said "click here to validate your email". :twilightsheepish:

268037

Yep, works now.

But the captchas are horrible. I needed to reset like a dozen times.

Never mind, worked for me now. :pinkiesmile:

Nevermind, my email was mispelled :derpyderp2:

268037

Ok, that fixed it. Just had to resend the email, again...

What does this mean?:rainbowhuh:

Done, worked perfectly fine.

There we go! Thanks Knighty!

Verified my email and logged in just to see this blog... Least I know why now.

Just did it, had no issues.

Easy as pie :pinkiehappy:

My Hawian Punch tastes like crispy creams. :derpyderp2:

What do :derpytongue2:

268022 be thankful you even HAVE A Captcha! It won't show up at all on mine.

Does this mean I need to bid goodbye to my beloved 502fiction? :raritycry:

Oh, hey! We get emails for blog post replies now too? Cool.

Please get a different captcha creator. This one is damn near impossible to read.

My avatar doesn't change, I want it to be medvedev's serious face :twilightangry2:

I've noticed that once you do verify your email it tells you that you can now log in, despite already being logged in. Is that like, the default thing for email verifications to say and you didn't change it? Or do you actually have to log in again?

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