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[personal profile] heidi
Oh, the loveliness that is FictionAlley's brand new, sparkly, shiny, delicious search engine! Ships! Characters! Ratings! Length! House! Genre! Hits! Word count! Spoilers! Upload-date! It's finally all there.

Oh, the cleverness and organization that is the Story Management page, where registered users (you must be logged in to see it properly) can see all their fics on one page, edit the summary, ships, characters, era, spoiler and rating information, upload new chapters, and yes, upload new fics (in other words, we've reopened)!

Oh, the usefulness of an alphabetical listing of authors that shows all of an author's fics in the same summary, and in line with that, oh, the structure and brilliance of an author page that lists all of an author's fics with summary, spoiler, hit, rating, last-update, first-publication date and chapter count information!

SO much love to everyone on Team FictionAlley, from [livejournal.com profile] nostrademons, who dreamed it three years ago, to Paul, Jason, [livejournal.com profile] alice_and_lain, [livejournal.com profile] smilie117, [livejournal.com profile] inthesewalls and everyone else who helped with the development of Links, the precursor to this, as well as the building-out of this system, Charles at Dragon.com who makes so much of this possible, and everyone who helped migrate fics, code and process fics, particularly in this last week where we cleared out the in-box, explain the old system (tiresome as that became at times), and especially, every single person who has ever submitted a fic to FictionAlley.

We're moving a little slow tonight as everything gets back in gear, and not all ISPs have resolved to our new urls - if your fic is already up there, we'd appreciate it if you waited a day or so before editing the newly-included information - a lot of it has already been incorporated from things like your Keywords - but I am so damned proud to say that FictionAlley has reopened.

Come on, check it out - and don't forget to submit your essays to the will-be-live-over-the-next-24-hours HPInkPot "house", and have fun editing our Wiki.

We hope you will enjoy it here on FictionAlley.

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:09 pm (UTC)
ext_2998: Skull and stupid bones (Default)
From: [identity profile] verstehen.livejournal.com
Fictionalley is love!

...I may have to actually update my fics there now. It's so... so... EASY now.

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
We're glad people are feeling that way!

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-ajhalluk585.livejournal.com
Don't want to be rude, but using the new search tool I don't exist: there are apparently no completed fics at schnoogle which ship Draco with Neville according to the search engine.

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
You need to edit your fic information on the story management page to include that information for your fic. If you searched by, say, author name, you'd find your fic, but the other info just isn't in there yet.

And have I complimented the pink Dalek yet?

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chinawolf.livejournal.com
Huh. I was about to comment soemthing along the lines of Bloody Brilliant!! about the search engine, but unfortunately, a simple query searching for a popular pairing, leaving all other fields untouched, didn't turn up any results. I guess it's not *that* easy... I shall surf further when I am less tired. For now, HURRAH! You finally got it running!

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
People just haven't updated their fics to include that info yet. Search for mysteries where the main characters are Draco and Hermione, and see what you get... ;)

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Also, we had an easier time porting over the lead character info than we did actual ships. Put those characters in the CHARACTER box instead of in SHIP and see what you get.

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chinawolf.livejournal.com
Hmm. So it's dependant on the authors going back to fill out the new information? Let's hope all of them do! I do love your icon, by the way. :))

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Date: 2005-12-02 02:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Yep, and an email is going out to all of them tomorrow asking them to do so. And hopefully, most will, and for those that haven't by the end of the year, I'm going to spend a day or so in January doing it for the 300 most-requested-but-not-yet-done fics.

And thanks for the icon-compliment - er, I assume you meant the Draco/Hermione one? I've decided that I am a "canon spinner" inspired by Prof Flitwick in GoF - sometimes, the things that are just a smudge different from the books are the most enjoyable, whether they're in fanfic or in the fanvids, um, I mean, the films.

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:30 pm (UTC)
ceilidh: (stronger together <3)
From: [personal profile] ceilidh
HarryandHermioneandRon is in the ship selections! SWEET. :>

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
So is Weasley Family and MWPP. I know, it's a little O_O but I wanted them as character sets, and we use the same list for ships and for characters. So...

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Date: 2005-12-01 11:53 pm (UTC)
ext_9390: My Phoebers! :D  (the Trio)
From: [identity profile] chickadilly.livejournal.com
Oooh, I like it! Cool. :)

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Thank you!

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Date: 2005-12-02 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ishtar79.livejournal.com
Oooh, it's looking all sparkly and new! :D

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Date: 2005-12-02 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Technically we skipped the sparkly, the blink and the marquee text, but it's all there in spirit. :)

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Date: 2005-12-02 12:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nyourdrms.livejournal.com
It's beautiful!!!

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Date: 2005-12-02 01:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kokopoko.livejournal.com
Thank god!!!!! Now if FA would just allow alerts when our favorite fics have been updated.

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
We do - all you have to do is subscribe to your favorite author's review forum and you'll get an email about a day or so before the fic goes live.

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kokopoko.livejournal.com
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT! Oh my god. Thank you!!

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Date: 2005-12-02 05:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nostrademons.livejournal.com
By "a day or so before", Heidi means "exactly when", under the new system.

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Date: 2005-12-02 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dharmavati.livejournal.com
OMG yay! It looks so cool! I look forward to, er, managing my fics!

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Go ahead! Enjoy it!

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Date: 2005-12-02 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luminousmarble.livejournal.com
Wow--it's been such a long time! I'm sort of shocked that it's finally here.

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
I know! Isn't it weird? But it's *there* and I'm just happy.

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Date: 2005-12-02 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hermione-like.livejournal.com
Looks great! :D However, Zacharias Smith is not listed as an option in neither the character drop-down menu nor the ship menus. :O! ;)

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Added!
Also, just realised I forgot to include the founders, so they've been added too!

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Date: 2005-12-02 04:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hermione-like.livejournal.com
Awesome on both! That's such a great page. :D

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Date: 2005-12-02 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Oh My Goodness

Date: 2005-12-02 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimmyblair.livejournal.com
I love it!!! It allows me to search only completed stories! This is the BEST search engine of fan fiction EVER! I am in love

Re: Oh My Goodness

Date: 2005-12-02 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! We tried to make it shiny and happy and lovely!

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Date: 2005-12-02 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gifted-dream.livejournal.com
I didn't think I could love FA more! Thanks to everyone who made it even *better*, you guys rock. :)

I'm in love with the search engine.
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