Fanfiction.net broken

Apparently fanfiction.net's 'planned network migration' has involved putting in some kind of very complex DDoS protection which means that neither of my browsers can so much as *display* any page on their site, let alone allow me to log into my own account. (I no longer have access to any of my past fiction; how fortunate that I still have all the original files on my computer!)

I was worried about losing my log-in, which since the last security upgrade I have only been able to access via my linked Facebook account, but I didn't actually think they'd contrive to disable basic read-only access. But -- like Pinterest and now Twitter -- they have. There was a brief window this afternoon where I was able to access the site with JavaScript disabled simply by waiting for the page to auto-refresh after a thirty-second delay, but as I suspected this was evidently an unintended security loophole which has now been patched.

In the short term, this may well improve my productivity; in the long term, I'm unlikely to bother writing any more fan-fiction if I have to jump through yet more hoops in order to publish it or even to see any reviews. ( Read more... )