[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[ILB]

I wrote a mail to ff.net´s support. Let's see if an answer comes.

Every story alert mail I got since Sunday 21 clock doesn´t work.
If I click the link manually I get an error message on the site:



But it's a shame that there is nothing on ff.net´s twitter or their home page.
A short info like "problem is know and we are working on it" would be nice.

[ownedbycats]

From various posts, the FFNet app seems to be working. Not much help in the case of FFF though.

[tricklem]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I have to disagree--I still have two story notices from yesterday and a new one from over night that don't appear on the web site. Plus another update that I did get the new chapter, but now doesn't appear.

Something bad is still going on. And their direct twitter feed is still last updated a month ago.

Me too. It seems to be sparadic. I have some updates that have come through and downloaded, but most haven't.

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Posted

2020-11-02
- Add Yes/No to all to most question_dialog boxes.


Most of the dialog boxes that ask you for a yes/no decision now have 'Yes to All' and 'No to All' buttons now.

These are the applicable dialogs:

1. Reject URL? - %s is on your Reject URL list
2. Remove Reject URL? - Remove URL from Reject List?
3. Are You an Adult?
4. Skip Anthology Story? - %s is in series that you have an anthology book for.
5. Change Story URL? - title by author is already in your library with a different source URL:
6. Download as New Book? - (from answering no to above)

Fun fact: it takes some doing, but it is actually possible to trigger all six of those in the same download.

[ownedbycats]

I did a quick test. It seems to work fine.

FFNet still seems to be not working right. The RSS feed started working again, but it's showing old dates and chapter counts. Still no sign that FictionPress is aware.

Aside from that one fic I mentioned earlier (interestingly, the chapter disappeared again after I managed to download it...) the last time I successfully updated any FFNet fics was on the 31st.

[Dragontrapper]

Created an account specifically to look for help on this:

For whatever reason, FFF is only downloading the first post of story's. They're threadmarked, its on default settings (tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin several times) and the problem persists.

I was originally trying to figure out how to download sidestories as well as threadmarks, but now I'd just be happy if it was working normally again.

[chrnno]

Originally Posted by Dragontrapper

Created an account specifically to look for help on this:

For whatever reason, FFF is only downloading the first post of story's. They're threadmarked, its on default settings (tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin several times) and the problem persists.

I was originally trying to figure out how to download sidestories as well as threadmarks, but now I'd just be happy if it was working normally again.

Known issue with site change, download the test version here.

[JimmXinu]

Already fixed in the test version. See link in my sig.

[ownedbycats]

How would I have FFF nullify an integer column upon fanfic update? " "=>#percentread under custom_column_settings caused an error.

[JimmXinu]

I assume you got a "invalid literal for int() with base 10: ' '" error. Which is perfectly true--it's not.

And knowing you, I doubt you'll happy with the easy answer: Use "0".

FFF deliberately skips setting custom int/float columns to empty string values (''). Probably to 'do the right thing' on update when a user has manually populated a column with a value that particular story or site doesn't have. Which makes me reluctant to change the existing behavior.

How many other people would find the ability to explicitly set a column to empty string (or None, which appears equivalent) useful?

Or would prefer if empty metadata values in general would also blank int/float instead of leave them?

[ownedbycats]

Unintentionally blanking columns would probably be annoying. I'll just use 0.

[ownedbycats]

For the reading list settings, is there any way to exclude fics of certain criteria (#fanficstatus: oneshot) from being added to the "send to device" list?

While redoing my reading list setup (instead of using replace-device, I switched to add-all and used the column settings with KoboTouchExtended to make my lists appear as collections) it seemed that making an add/overwrite list that cleared itself after syncing could be a way to solve my forgetting-to-resend-updated-fanfic problem, but that would send all the random oneshots as well. Though I guess I could manually clear those out before syncing.

[JimmXinu]

No, there's no mechanism for selectively adding only some downloads/updates to reading lists when configured to do so automatically.

If you're using a clear-on-sync list, why would you need to clear 'those' more than once?

[ownedbycats]

Mostly for new oneshots. I download a lot of them.

[ownedbycats]

Until FictionPress gets its shit together and fixes FFNet (if it ever does...), would anything break if I swapped the URL to the AO3 version of crossposted stories and updated from that?

Some of them I swapped over already with overwrite, but FFNet sometimes has cover images.