Welcome to, what is technically, version 3 of the FFA.net codebase.  Version 2 was never released - although a few of you may have seen it on Kinsfire's personal website.

The main difference for you is the user tools, that should now actually work properly and let you manage your accounts a lot easier.

Another key change is that all usernames are now unique.  If your name has been forcibly changed, you can use the tools, once logged in, to change your name to something a little more user friendly than a number being appended to your existing name.  Note:  The user-rename tool will only be available until the end of January.

All your user data has been transferred across, however, all non-valid accounts (people who haven't received the link) have been wiped out, as has the thousands of spam reviews.  Speaking of which, anonymous reviews are no longer possible,

The main new feature is the ability to see everyone's review history, this has been the main thing that people have asked for.  Clicking a username in a review will take you to the page.

There is also now individual RSS feeds, as well as group RSS feeds, all hidden under the auto discovery item on your modern browser.  And speaking of modern browsers, if you're using IE6, I'm really not interested if the site does or doesn't work.  I know that some people are stuck on it for various legitimate reasons, but as I do this out of my own pocket, I'm simply not willing to invest the time and energy into making it work.

If you do find any bugs, please either use the contact form, or post them on the yahoo group.

While I'm here, I want to say thank you to everyone who helped test, with special thanks going to hga and tgrave, and especially Ralph for their bug finding and reporting skills.  

As always with new code, it's probably going to be a bit of a bumpy ride for the next few weeks, but I'll do what I can to make it as painless as possible.

Technical things you should (maybe) be aware of:

1. All emails now come from @mail.fanficauthors.net - so please add that as a trusted address.  I've added rDNS and SPF records to the dns server.
2. All RSS feeds have changed address - you will need to update your software to get the new updates
3. All RSS feeds are now much more verbose, so you can see what has been updated
4. There is a new /recent/ page, that will show you the latest updates from an author
5. The site is now completely UTF-8 compliant
6. If you have javascript turned off, you will see reduced functionality.  As the only external links on the site are to google (either for stats or jquery hosting) I'd advise white listing the .fanficauthors.net sites.
7. All images have been removed from stories, there is a new gallery feature in the admin for authors to attach stories to.
8. The default time is now set to Europe/London, so the dates on stories may have changed because of it.
9. The font tools are now only available if you are logged in.

I've also taken the opportunity to clean up a few old things.  Some of the more self-indulgent author notes have been truncated, and the Hope epilogue has been removed.  

ETA:

So, bug reports have been coming in - not to many, which is nice.  Fixed items:

1. Logging in displays incorrect error message
2. Site options don't save the font
3. Resize page doesn't work
4. CSS invalid in authorNames
5. FAQ page referred to non-exist content