The New Fimfic · 9:12pm Jun 5th, 2017
Is it April again already? Because this new site update is a joke.
Edit: Okay, it's not a complete joke. There's actually a lot of good stuff in this new update. Bugfixes and cool stuff galore. Buuuut there are also some not-so-good changes, and the flood of new code seems to have broken... everything, at one point or another.
Let’s see...
PINKIE, HAND ME THE TIME MACHINE!
Nope. It’s June.
I say give it time. A lot of work’s gone into it and I can see a bunch of stuff that’s been improved and added. To be honest, I think a shake-up is what Fimfiction needed.
People said this about the past updates, I say we need to give it time and people will cool off. Seems like you can never make anyone happy on this site.
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The visual changes aren't my big issue. Nor are the bugs, though they are a problem. For example, I had to manually code in your comment numbers to be able to reply, because the reply button doesn't work for me. My problems are with the pulling of features and the implementation of new ones that make things worse. We are no longer allowed to format our stories with any spacing, paragraph spacing, or indents. The chapter pages remove all such formatting and convert it into whatever display the reader chooses. Sure, it means people won't complain about indents vs. double-space, but it means we have far less control over our own work. This is not cool. Mix that with lots of little annoyances, like having to scroll to the bottom of a story list to go through the pages and avatars becoming circles sometimes and squares at other times, and I consider this a very mixed update.