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From: guest (Blog)
, 139 months, post #21 |
Are there any stories about slaves, Masters and boys choosing to
become
girls, with colour photographs?
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From: rugal
, 139 months, post #22 |
God this is old (don't know why the thread aws bumped for a
question like that) but...
Why reinvent the wheel?
Because some times things are just outdated. I can understand
resistance to change and attachment to something old but at the
same time... I'm not some programmer or web design but even I can
tell just from looking at the site that Fictionmania is
horrifically outdated. When the excuse, for example, for not
letting Google crawlers search the site isn't anything to do with
privacy but is, instead, "it crashes the vintage software" that
should tell you that maybe it's time for an upgrade.
The forums definitely need to be updated too. It's not the mid to
late '90s anymore so thread trees are just archaiac when you could
easily have a more conventional forum like an ipboard instead.
Although I've found myself visiting Fictionmania less and less not
because it's "old" but because of the story quality itself. It's a
problem people have been going on about for years but at this point
(and really it's been like this for a long time) the new story
submissions are completely dominated by sissy crossdressing fetish
stuff or bimbo transformations all of them being incredibly long
multi-part things and I think it's done a lot to drive people away
from the site if they think their submissions are going to get
burried under piles of stories of adult men acting like infants.
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From: guest
, 65 months, post #23 |
I would like to have a body search function in fictionmania.
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From: guest (anon)
, 40 months, post #24 |
I would sincerely appreciate an update to the search functions to
allow indexing all stories' texts for key words, much like google
would. All other tg sites allow this, and thus I am drawn to them
much more often.
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From: guest (Tights)
, 40 months, post #25 |
For those interested, I created a file with all fictonmania
stories. It's somewhat tricky to search, but if you know a little
bit of linux you can find your way around. It's basically a
spreadsheet document divided across several columns:
https://archive.org/download/Fictionmania/Fictionmania.xml
If you are on Windows I would advise you to download EmEditor, it's
a nice software and it is able to open those huge text file.
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From: guest
, 40 months, post #26 |
Incredible work, Tights! How big is the file?
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #27 | |
Message deleted by cj. Removal requested by Fictionmania Task Force |
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From: guest (Never run scripts from the web)
, 38 months, post #28 |
That shellscript looks suspicious as hell. What's the purpose of
executing cmd.exe in a Unix environment? And why try to use what I
assume is a text-to-speech program (balcon.exe)?
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #29 | |
Message deleted by cj. Removal requested by Fictionmania Task Force |
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #30 |
Sorry, the message ended up being posted twice.
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #31 |
Here's a gif showing the script working:
https://i.imgur.com/BpSmMRF.gif
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From: guest
, 38 months, post #32 |
Thanks, that looks much less suspicious now.
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From: Mr. Ram
, 38 months, post #33 |
Tights,
This script is a violation of copyright. Only Fictionmania has
permission to host and display the stories on Fictionmania.
As a member of the Fictionmania taskforce, I am asking the
Metamorphose.org moderators to delete the above script.
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From: hskfmn
, 38 months, post #34 |
FictionMania provides a free service, and, as far as I am aware,
they do not copyright any material that is posted to their site.
There are literally tons of stories that you can find on
FictionMania that have been posted to other TF story sites by their
original authors, or copied and transcribed elsewhere. FictionMania
does not control or mandate where or how content on their website
is “distributed”.
We delete links to full legally copyrighted material like
full-length feature films on this site due to legal concerns and
potential litigation/risk of termination of this site. There is no
such risk when it comes to FictionMania.
If anyone has any physical evidence to the contrary however, we
will be happy to consider it.
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From: cj
, 38 months, post #35 |
Since we know that Mr. Ram is indeed part of the FM Task Force, and
he asked nicely, I've removed the requested/offending posts.
hskfmn may be correct about the copyright issues, but there are
other things to consider such as use of said scripts/scripting
"against" the FM servers.
Overall, it's mainly a professional courtesy to remove the posts as
requested by a site "official".
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #36 |
>but there are other things to consider such as use of said
scripts/scripting "against" the FM servers
The script didn't do that at all. It couldn't, it only search a
copy of fictionmania database that I posted on "post #25" on
archive.org, it had zero access to FM servers. Aside from that, as
hskfmn very well put it, FictionMania does not control or mandate
where or how content on their website is “distributed”.
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #37 |
Honestly, the administration of these sites hosting stories,
whether is writing.com or fictionmania.tv are quite horrible, they
have a petty and frivolous possessive behavior, thinking the
stories put there belong to them and it's their propriety, when
this is not the case.
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From: D.A.W.
, 38 months, post #38 |
How about this? As someone who has stories on fictionmania, I ask
that you please not share copies of my work without my permission.
I'm sure many on authors on fictionmania feel the same.
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From: D.A.W.
, 38 months, post #39 |
Also, when those authors post their stories on fictionmania, they
are giving fictionmania and only fictionmania permission to host
them. By copying FM's database you are violating the copyright of
the original content creators like me.
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From: guest (Tights)
, 38 months, post #40 |
Your line of reasoning would make things such archiving the
internet impossible and illegal, initiatives such Wayback Machine
wouldn't exist, since you would need a explicit permission to
archive every page, since the default assumption would be that the
owner that site didn't allowed copying. It's a gray area, but in
any case the decision doesn't belong to Fictionmania admins, since
they definitely don't own the stories.
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