[GUI Plugin] FanFicFare

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by MidnightRose

Is there a way to exclude images specifically from author notes? (A lot of royalroad stories I follow have covers of other stories in nearly every author note, either shoutouts or advertising the author's other books.)
I would prefer not to disable the author notes entirely, likewise with images.

Basically, no. That would need specific code and I'd need to see several users asking for it before I'd consider it.

[ownedbycats]

AO3 outage: https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/jdtq4vwzqxxf

[Tharos]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

This is the first I'm hearing anything an FFN beta update. Can you provide a URL?

The URL is https://new.fanfiction.net.

However, you can currently only access it with an invitation code. These are published on their Twitter account.

If you use one of these codes, you will receive another code in your account, which you can then share again.

[JimmXinu]

I don't use Twitter.

OTOH, their Invitation Code blocking is less than iron clad. I can peek behind the curtain a bit.

From a brief initial look, FFF will not be able to use Browser Cache on the new version -- the chapter text is flagged no-cache when it is served. If the levels of CloudFlare blocking applied are similar to today, FFF may not be able to read ffnet in future.

Other things I notice right away:
- The level of 'everything is javascript' is extremely high. Like, each page is +80% Javascript and maybe 20% HTML--story and author links are all JS clickables, not actual HTML links.
- It looks like the story ID numbers are changed to an 18 char alphanumeric and there's a similar new chapter ID.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

From a brief initial look, FFF will not be able to use Browser Cache on the new version -- the chapter text is flagged no-cache when it is served. If the levels of CloudFlare blocking applied are similar to today, FFF may not be able to read ffnet in future.

Do you think an anti-FFF measure? It seems... calculated.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Do you think an anti-FFF measure? It seems... calculated.

I doubt it. We are, for the most part, a relatively small community of casual users.

CloudFlare has a business model because of all the AI trainers and other harvesters repeatedly scraping the entire web (plus DDoS attackers). I suspect we fall somewhere between 'minor offender' and 'collateral damage'.

And while I'm not a big fan, making every web site some kind of in-browser application has been the popular trend for years now. FFnet hasn't significantly updated their site in what, twenty years? They're just finally refreshing, I expect.

[ownedbycats]

I honestly though it was running on somebody's duct-taped server in a basement somewhere.