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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 11:15 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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