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201 weeks
Downtime & Server Move

Hi all. Firstly, apologies for the extended period of unexpected downtime. Obviously any kind of downtime is non ideal, but unexpected is more annoying all around.
On Friday morning (GMT) we experienced a hardware failure on our database server. To our knowledge there is no data loss of any kind. We have fairly regular backups hosted off-site, regardless. The exact cause isn't entirely clear at this time, but instead of wrestling with trying to get the hardware sorted (it was a dedicated server) we decided that this was a good opportunity to make a server move we've been planning for a long time over to Digital Ocean.
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236 comments · 15,386 views
278 weeks
BBCode updates

Performance improvements
Over the last few days I've been working on improving the performance of the BBCode parser. I've managed to implement a few major optimizations, reducing the run time in common cases to around 1/4th to 1/20th compared to the older version. This has reduced total server-side render times on some of the more complicated test pages I've been using to around 50ms–70ms, which should be a noticeable improvement.
New features
Opacity
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49 comments · 4,898 views
301 weeks
Recent Changelog
We've done various unannounced changes of the past few weeks so I thought I'd group up the things we've done so you guys know what's changed.
- Added account linking page for Patreon / Twitter
- Added ability to cross post stories, blogs and bookshelf additions to Twitter
- Added twitter userpage module
- Added account deletion page
- Reorganised user toolbar dropdown to better fit more items
- Added session management page to see logins and active sessions on your account
- Added new articles system and moved some existing ones into it
- Redesigned PM page a bit to be cleaner
- Increased font size in major places across the site to improve readability
- New cookie consent controls for EU users and updated privacy policy
- Recommended groups list on groups page - WIP
- Tooltips in many locations around the site with helpful tips
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114 comments · 6,022 views
302 weeks
Help Articles
Something I've worked on the last couple of days is adding the ability for us to add arbitrary "articles" to the site which we can use for various things. Sort of an extension on the manual articles we've added in the past like the bbcode page, writing guide, etc.
So far I've added 3 guides:
I'd love to know if you guys have any idea for articles that would have helped you out when starting out or anything else that comes to mind.
65 comments · 5,183 views
329 weeks
Night Mode

I've been working on it for ages but only really got the impetus to finish all of it off over the last few days. In the "settings" dropdown at the top on desktop, or the bottom of the slide out bar on mobile you'll find a toggle for night mode. Enjoy!
Oh, and although I've tried to cover everything there is a 100% chance I've missed styling some things so apologies in advance for any funky pages.
246 comments · 6,807 views
330 weeks
Additional Search Update

Hey folks,
Over the last few days I've added a few things to the new search system. A lot of people were unhappy with not being able to filter various things as quickly as they used to be able to. To that end, I've added a little filter dropdown to the right of the search box which effectively contains everything the old sidebar used to. It even has some niceties like quick word count filters and a highly rated filter.
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132 comments · 5,303 views
331 weeks
December 2017 Update

Hey guys, got a whole bunch of updates for you today.
Tags
This is a small but important step on our way to the tagging system I envision. The existing way we handled things like characters and genres has all been merged into a single tagging system. That won't result in much difference for you viewing and using the site but it makes it a lot easier to add new tags especially.
We now have a couple of new tag types: series and warnings.
The series tag is for identifying what series (franchise) your fanfiction contains. I've added a whole ton of various TV shows, movies, comics, books and games but clearly we will have to add a ton more in the coming future. Stories must also contain one of the four MLP tags which are FIM, EqG, Movie and Comic, as this is a pony fanfic site after all. Feel free to bug me on Discord if you have a requirement for a series to be added.
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630 comments · 13,773 views
331 weeks
Math BBCode tag

I've added [math] and [mathblock] BBCode tags, which can be used to display formatted math. We've had a few requests for this, particularly for group forum threads and blog posts. Most math-related TeX syntax is supported. (We are currently using MathJax to handle the layout.)
The documentation from the BBCode guide is repeated below for your convenience.
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84 comments · 4,410 views
354 weeks
Fimfiction API

If you're not a developer you can probably ignore this post.
It's been like 6 years, but hey, things take time. The API is currently very WIP still but it's ready for people to get working on in our development chat room.
API documentation can be found at https://www.fimfiction.net/developers/api/v2/docs and you should join the Discord Chat and PM me to add you to the private API channel and I can help you get started. The functionality is very limited right now but I'm dedicating all my time to it at the moment and would love to have people add their input to the process.
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358 weeks
New BBCode Tags
Hey guys,
One of the features in this new update was reader-side paragraph formatting. This helps improve consistency for readers across the site, especially for those of us who can’t stand reading indented text on a computer screen.
However, one thing that wasn’t accounted for was the legitimate need for specific indenting of passages and for certain blocks of text to have no paragraph formatting. Some examples would be lyrics and poetry.
Taking this into account, we have come up with a couple of new tags that remedy this situation which are documented below (copied directly from the bbcode guide)
[indent] Indent
The indent tag can be used to, unsurprisingly, indent portions of your text.
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[indent]The indent tag can be used to, unsurprisingly, indent portions of your text.[/indent]
```
It also support levels of indenting
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168 comments · 6,395 views

May

30th

2017

Site Update » 💩 · 11:57am May 30th, 2017

So, emojis are now supported all over the site. Go have fun and stuff.

oh god what have we done

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Alex_

Alex_ #1 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · 3 ·

Yay!

Silentwoodfire

Silentwoodfire #2 · May 30th, 2017 · 6 · ·

Why is everyone so amazed at these silly things?

Meeester

Moderator

Meeester #3 · May 30th, 2017 · 89 · ·

Still no Luna ponemoji

Lord Weesus Christ

Lord Weesus Christ #4 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

💩

Exemter

Exemter #5 · May 30th, 2017 · 26 · ·

You've made a mistake.

Comment posted by Chrome Masquerade deleted May 30th, 2017

PresentPerfect

Author Interviewer

PresentPerfect #7 · May 30th, 2017 · 55 · ·

knighty poops on Fimfiction, news at 11

Vic Fontaine

Vic Fontaine #8 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

Xaquseg

Server Administrator

Xaquseg #9 · May 30th, 2017 · 15 · ·

4552286
This change is also required to make some other modern characters work, including some math related symbols, some lesser used Chinese characters, and a few uncommon scripts, including things like Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

Bendy

Bendy #10 · May 30th, 2017 · 31 · ·

Emojis are tolerable.

But the Emoji movie needs to be cast into the fires of Mount Doom.

Sollace

Sollace #11 · May 30th, 2017 · 24 · ·

🍆

Exemter

Exemter #12 · May 30th, 2017 · 4 · ·

4552294

You've doomed us all.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

I cannot imagine a single scenario in which this could ever be useful.

I better be able to type a story out in Webdings, or I'm gonna be pissed.

Cold in Gardez

Cold in Gardez #13 · May 30th, 2017 · 5 · 1 ·

This will end well.

Exemter

Exemter #14 · May 30th, 2017 · 1 · ·

4552297
4552286
The end is upon us.

Xaquseg

Server Administrator

Xaquseg #15 · May 30th, 2017 · 6 · ·

4552302
It's not just that, there are 103 blocks in plane 1 that we didn't used to support at-all, which now all work. Emoji, by itself, is also worth supporting as it has become very common on the internet, and it'd be weird for us to disallow it. People are going to use text-based emoticons anyway, no real harm in supporting emoji too.

PaulAsaran

PaulAsaran #16 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

4552284
😫

Dusk_Writer

Dusk_Writer #17 · May 30th, 2017 · 3 · ·

You've doomed us all 🍆💩

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime #18 · May 30th, 2017 · 1 · ·

🚂

Exemter

Exemter #19 · May 30th, 2017 · 3 · ·

4552308
You call this:
4552301
4552297
Harmless?

Just to be clear I'm not actually bothered by this at all.

CroakyEngine

CroakyEngine #20 · May 30th, 2017 · 36 · ·

We're upgrading some database related things at the moment so if you see any page stalls it'll be related.

We're upgrading some database related things at the moment

some database related things

DATABASE RELATED THINGS

💩

CyberCommand

CyberCommand #21 · May 30th, 2017 · 4 · 1 ·

🔫

Mine_Menace

Mine_Menace #22 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

Ha! Joke's on you, I don't even use emojis!

Yeah, okay, I use ponemojis occasionally, but that's only because pony. And I don't see those being a part of the awfully stupid-looking emoji movie.

Crescent-087

Crescent-087 #23 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · ·

.....WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime #24 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

🍟👂🐴➕🍕⬆️🐓

ShadowLDrago

ShadowLDrago #25 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · ·

Welp. We're boned.

Pearple Prose

Pearple Prose #26 · May 30th, 2017 · 3 · ·

😎👉👉

Crescent-087

Crescent-087 #27 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

🌈 Yay!

WarKing76

WarKing76 #28 · May 30th, 2017 · 11 · ·

Great, the levels of shitposting on this site have been dramatically increased by 45 percent. This is what Fimfic really needed more.

👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖👖

Thanks, Knightly.

Wild Zontars

Wild Zontars #29 · May 30th, 2017 · 11 · ·

>site about the written word (and ponies)
>rebus shit everywhere
>no, really. literal shit
derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/3/20/580685.png

MagicKnight55

MagicKnight55 #30 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

"...and then I said this was a good idea!"
*HAHAHAHAHA!*

Opium4TmassS

Opium4TmassS #31 · May 30th, 2017 · 12 · 1 ·

I now truly believe their is no God.

mrkillwolf666

mrkillwolf666 #32 · May 30th, 2017 · 9 · ·

Fluttercheer

Fluttercheer #33 · May 30th, 2017 · · ·

4552294

Does this mean I can include hieroglyphs in my fics now? Or just comments?

nebulaegalaxy

nebulaegalaxy #34 · May 30th, 2017 · 1 · ·

ooooohhh no

lemme go get my phone this'll be fun

VariusMayhem

VariusMayhem #35 · May 30th, 2017 · 5 · ·

4552284
That won't do. Not at all!

Hoops

Hoops #36 · May 30th, 2017 · 5 · 1 ·

Fuck.

Xaquseg

Server Administrator

Xaquseg #37 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · 1 ·

4552342
All Unicode code points should now work, before only plane 0 worked. Font support for all characters on all devices may not exist however.

The most useful portion of this change is Emoji, most of the other characters aren't super useful.

Chicago Ted

Chicago Ted #38 · May 30th, 2017 · 7 · ·

As someone who once tried to type Coptic on Fimfiction once (that's a long story) and who once couldn't preview PMs for several months after getting one in Traditional Chinese, this update is a godsend.

Doctor Disco

Doctor Disco #39 · May 30th, 2017 · 80 · ·

Why not more ponemoticons?

WHY NOT MORE PONEMOTICONS!?

ABronyAnonymous

ABronyAnonymous #40 · May 30th, 2017 · 3 · ·

I can literally shitpost now, but still can't include Best Princess...damn.

(Thanks for the update!)

the other sans

the other sans #41 · May 30th, 2017 · 1 · ·

The end times have come...💩

Fluttercheer

Fluttercheer #42 · May 30th, 2017 · 6 · ·

4552347

That last statement is quite bold. Pretty sure using chinese letters and hieroglyphs in related fics to increase atmosphere and immersion is more useful for a writing site than some silly pictures in comments that people use because they are too lazy to type out the full words.
FIMFiction.net is a MLP: FiM fiction site, not a social network.

Xaquseg

Server Administrator

Xaquseg #43 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · 1 ·

4552362

I only meant that they'll probably see the most use, between comments, group threads, and private messages.

The Psychopath

The Psychopath #44 · May 30th, 2017 · 1 · ·

Welp, time for blood for the blood god.

yamgoth

yamgoth #45 · May 30th, 2017 · 2 · 13 ·

HOLY MACKEREL! I CAN PLAY WITH MYSELF!

Behold! Pinkie Pie! Master fartbender!
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