FF.net

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I keep seeing this tumblr post from several followers about how FF.net is circling the drain, and I thought I'd try to save something. Nothing else from that time period has survived between notebooks being recycled or thrown away and different purges on sites.

It's... It's so... Let's just say, not great.

(For some context, "this time period" means, roughly, the late stages of middle school and early stages of high school. The pre-somewhat having a grasp on grammar rules time period. The churning out questionable shit before you have anything half-way decent time period.)

I need to mentally prepare myself to archive this tomorrow. Like, backdate to the time it was posted, turn off comments, restrict to only logged in ao3 users, bury that.


Archival note (December 2023): FF.net is still going. This wasn't a 'panic now' sort of post. This was meant as more along the lines of 'oh yeah, I've been meaning to look into that'.

Comments

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From the comments on the view-locked post (22 May 2021):

It's a bit strange looking at this entry versus the ao3 posts that I've gotten used to - I have to double check what the K+ rating should translate to, I completely forgot there are genre divisions on FanFiction, I don't need a mercilessly short summary on ao3 because I can actually indicate some of the info via Relationship and Additional Tags, and I don't have to put the author notes in the body of the fic itself.

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I'll admit that I've been putting this off for years because FF.net doesn't allow for imports, and for reasons unknown to me, I can't highlight and copy+paste the text for a mindless transfer. Maybe I can just save this in a Google Doc and not look at it for another 10+ years...


Archival note: I saved the info in a Google Doc, and I chose to ignore it instead of actually having to look at it and post it on AO3 on the same day.

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From a later reply on 29 June 2021:

I went looking for someone's work around to re-typing it out (copied from a tumblr reblog):

Don't know who might end up seeing this, but fichub.net can convert fics off of fanfiction.net into downloadable formats. [...] It seems like a lot of fic conversion websites don't actually handle stuff from ff.net all that well, so it took me a bit of digging before I found one that works – but this one does, it's extremely easy to use, and it supports EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and Zipped HTML formats! It even preserves all the fics' metadata and formatting, and you don't have to download it chapter by chapter, you just copy/paste the fic's url into the search bar, export it, and then choose your preferred format and download the whole thing in one shot.