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Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

Last post 09-21-2009, 5:04 by matneee. 11 replies.
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  •  03-07-2005, 11:20 870257

    Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    Here, on these forums, we can't copy word documents to the boards itself, and they have to be attached. This has several downsides: - Some people with other versions can't see our stories. - Other people can CHANGE the attachments, like recently happened with someone's story, like I noticed. - We got less room for other attachments. So we want to be able to post our stories without attaching them! I already asked for it before, but as far as I know, it still hasn't changed! So once again: Let us post the stories normally! Copy and paste from Word, and post it then! I would hate to have to post on an other forum, just because I want to be sure no changes are made, and because it's easier... I hope you respond and do something about the problem soon! Cya! Solar, an annoyed writer.
  •  03-13-2005, 12:41 872807 in reply to 870257

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    Any answers? Bump...
  •  03-14-2005, 21:18 873354 in reply to 870257

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    I'm confused, why can't you just paste your story into the message window when making a new post? If it goes over the character limit just split it up into different posts one after the other - you could even use chapters in this way.
  •  03-14-2005, 22:58 873459 in reply to 870257

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    The forums have a problem with anything that isn't plain ascii. So various things from word like the apostrophe stop the post from being printed at all. Its a real pain actually.
    I have no idea what I am talking about
  •  03-15-2005, 8:11 873584 in reply to 870257

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    How about attaching them as PDF? That will look the same for everyone, be readable by everyone, and it can't be changed as easily (if you want to be sure it stays unchanged, add a digital signature...). MS Word .DOC is a horrible format for interchange.
  •  03-15-2005, 18:10 873784 in reply to 870257

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    I was going to suggest the same thing but I would imagine that most people who are posting don't have the ability to save as a PDF. As far as I'm aware you need to buy Acro Pro to do that? (I have it anyway so have never looked for any freeware stuff to do it though I think some open source office software provides that kind of functionality..).
  •  09-20-2009, 4:50 3405355 in reply to 873784

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    4 years later i make an account and am interrested in making fanfiction for fable on the lionhead website. is anyone interrested in supporting this idea?
    Aren't you the nasty tattle-tale! Ratting me out before I've had my fun... Pappa spank!
  •  09-20-2009, 9:18 3405405 in reply to 3405355

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    its quite annoying, alot of folks complain about it on fable 2 fan fiction board. If copied from word directly the post contains a code making the story unreadable.

    I tend to use microsoft works as well I haven't got word, so I've never had the problem but this seriously needs sorting out.

    Hermit




  •  09-20-2009, 19:07 3405531 in reply to 3405405

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    Orakaius:
    I've never had the problem but this seriously needs sorting out.


    Hermit



    A lot of problems on this forums needs to get sorted out. But it has been here for years now with very few updates solving problems and the same stupid bugs on the site that was here from the start is still here.

    Is it really that hard for lionhead to get smiley picker and the other stuff (like url tag button) to work in anything but firefox ? and why do i have to visit the hotmail site and login at least once a week because lionhead forums gives me a error when i just visit here (i cant even see the forums and cant log out). But logging in on hotmail site makes it work again...

    Not to mention that f****ng error you get when posting so your whole post disappears if you didnt copy it all. Also where is my join date ? Where is everyone join date who joined a couple of years back ? Yeah i wrote mine into my profile myself but how hard can it be to give everyone a join date... maybe from when they posted their first post ?

    It's a mess and what's even worse is that we believed the bullshit when lionhead bought microsoft about nothing would change for us.

    Only reason to still be here is that there's some cool people.
  •  09-20-2009, 19:37 3405544 in reply to 3405531

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    maggot:
    when lionhead bought microsoft
    Wait what? ORLY [orly]
  •  09-20-2009, 19:41 3405547 in reply to 3405544

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    RAVEK:
    maggot:
    when lionhead bought microsoft
    Wait what? ORLY [orly]


    You havent heard ? Lionhead word 2010 will soon be released.
  •  09-21-2009, 5:04 3405606 in reply to 3405547

    Re: Still waiting for fanfiction on the boards!

    S' true. I was using the beta a few days back and this sodding paperclip kept popping up and sying "It looks like you're trying to write a whimsical action-RPG. Would you like assistance?"

    On the plus side, they've got rid of the Ribbon. On the down side, they've replaced it with a Springer Spaniel, and spellcheck only works once you've completed the seven tower quests.


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