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True Story.
No input was acquired from the userbase at fanfiction.net before the first of the fabled character strippings. It took support request after support request before users understood that the sudden upload problems were intentional-there wasn't even a distinctly visible notification that there was a new policy. The character combinations stripped included a form of designating telepathic communication used by a segment of the Star Wars fandom. To this day, those character combinations are still banned. If I recall correctly from more recent lists, the canonical way of designating thought-speech in the Animorphs books is also now a problem.
There's a work around, but it can involve thousands of find-and-replaces manually done after upload, and if the chapter is ever edited again, the find-and-replaces must be done again.
The major accepted way of designating story pairings has been banned from summaries as well. That in particular affects most users of that site.
No amount of user complaints and pleas has been able to change any of these problems. And those same users are politely informed that the lag over a week's time was because of scheduled maintenance that no one was told of, and any notified maintenance usually causes problems for weeks without any sign the owners and operators of the site care.
This sort of common-sense treatment? It's new to at least some of us.
No input was acquired from the userbase at fanfiction.net before the first of the fabled character strippings. It took support request after support request before users understood that the sudden upload problems were intentional-there wasn't even a distinctly visible notification that there was a new policy. The character combinations stripped included a form of designating telepathic communication used by a segment of the Star Wars fandom. To this day, those character combinations are still banned. If I recall correctly from more recent lists, the canonical way of designating thought-speech in the Animorphs books is also now a problem.
There's a work around, but it can involve thousands of find-and-replaces manually done after upload, and if the chapter is ever edited again, the find-and-replaces must be done again.
The major accepted way of designating story pairings has been banned from summaries as well. That in particular affects most users of that site.
No amount of user complaints and pleas has been able to change any of these problems. And those same users are politely informed that the lag over a week's time was because of scheduled maintenance that no one was told of, and any notified maintenance usually causes problems for weeks without any sign the owners and operators of the site care.
This sort of common-sense treatment? It's new to at least some of us.