History YMMV / FanfictionDotNet

** "There are no FF.N Mods" due to the fact that FF.N Mods are almost non-existent on the site, and there's no real way to contact a specific one directly, and even if you do, they rarely respond to what you're contacting them about. As a result, a ''lot'' of FF.N rules such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or having real life people appear in fanfics is rarely, if ''ever'', enforced, and are still posted on a regular basis and often stay up for years even if they break one of the rules FF.N has in place.
** Korean adbots. For what ''ever'' reason, FF.N Forums infamously tend to get flooded with them, with the worst cases resulting in entire front pages of Forums reading like a Korean website. It's so infamous that the site admins had to forcefully remove links from Forums... And Korean adbots ''still'' tend to flood the Forums.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'The Purge', one of the most infamous events in the sites history. In an attempt to free up space, the FF.N admins in all their infinite wisdom saw fit to purge 'inactive' Forums and threads, extremely old fics or fics that break their set guidelines, without informing anyone until ''after'' it had already happened. Not only has this render a lot of popular fics {{Missing Episode}}s, most of the 'inactive' Forums were actually still really active, with multiple threads and memories being deleted left and right, multiple PlayByPost {{Role Playing Game}}s having key arcs rendered as {{Missing Episode}}s and killing any activity the Forum section of their archive had, with many users jumping ship in disgust. Even today the events of the purge can still be felt, with many Forum archives of even popular franchises like ''Pokemon'' rendered virtual ghost towns.

** The introduction of 4 character choices in filters. For the vast majority of fandoms the site is used solely for {{Shipping}} two characters together. Since the update this ability to add more characters has lead to an infuriating level of people who put all the main characters in a story as the 4 characters even if the story is just for shipping one of them. Example: Wanting to find Spencer/Aria stories for ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', only to find that filtering for those two characters now also brings up dozens of stories that have Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily all included in the filters.
** [[BrokenBase On the other hand]], this has now made seeking out pairings like the OT3 a lot easier, now that one can filter out the fic that deals with just two thirds of the threesome.
** It is possible for writers to make pairings which are recognised by the filter. Whether enough people do it to avoid irritating the people who still hate the new feature, however...
** The hatred is somewhat lessened by the introduction of the exclusion filters, which allow you to filter out stories with specific characters and/or genres that you don't want to read. It's especially helpful when trying to exclude a story with an OC (thanks to the newly created OC character added to all sections) in order to avoid a shameless SelfInsertFic, or exclude a character you don't particularly like. Though sadly, the OC character is a recent feature, so many of those stories lack it, ensuring that a few always manage to avoid the filter.
** As of June 2015, links outside the site no longer show up in forum post anymore thanks to Korean adbot spam, and any outside links on a profile page just link back to said profile page. To say FF.N goers were ''not'' pleased would be an understatement.
** The site uses the infamous 'robots.txt' code in its programming, preventing sites such as ''WebSite/WaybackMachine'' from working with FF.N. This, as a result, renders a ''lot'' of Forums, Fan Fics, and [=RPs=] {{Missing Episode}}s. This is especially infamous since the higher ups at FF.N like to periodically purge inactive forums/threads/fics after a certain point to save on space, ''even if said threads were locked and unable to be reactivated or the fanfiction had already be completed''. Naturally, bringing up robots.txt is a good way to ignite a bonfire that can be seen from space.

** The hatred is somewhat lessened by the introduction of the exclusion filters, which allow you to filter out stories with specific characters and/or genres that you don't want to read. It's especially helpful when trying to exclude a story with an OC (thanks to the newly created OC character added to all sections) in order to avoid a shameless MarySue SelfInsertFic, or exclude a character you don't particularly like. Though sadly, the OC character is a recent feature, so many of those stories lack it, ensuring that a few always manage to avoid the filter.

* NeverLiveItDown: 'The Purge', one of the most infamous events in the sites history. In an attempt to free up space, the FF.N admins in all their infinite wisdom saw fit to purge 'inactive' Forums and threads, extremely old fics or fics that break their set guidelines, without informing anyone until ''after'' it had already happened. Not only has this render a lot of popular fics {{Missing Episode}}s, most of the 'inactive' Forums were actually still really active, with multiple threads and memories being deleted left and right, multiple PlayByPost {{Role Playing Game}}s having key arcs rendered as {{Missing Episode}}s and killing any activity the Forum section of their archive had, with many users jumping ship in disgust. Even today the events of the purge can still be felt, with many Forum archives of even popular franchises like Pokemon rendered virtual ghost towns.

** The introduction of 4 character choices in filters. For the vast majority of fandoms the site is used solely for {{Shipping}} two characters together. Since the update this ability to add more characters has lead to an infuriating level of people who put all the main characters in a story as the 4 characters even if the story is just for shipping one of them. Example: Wanting to find Spencer/Aria stories for PrettyLittleLiars, only to find that filtering for those two characters now also brings up dozens of stories that have Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily all included in the filters.

** The site uses the infamous 'robots.txt' code in its programming, preventing sites such as ''WebSite/WaybackMachine'' from working with FF.N. This, as a result, renders a ''lot'' of Forums, Fan Fics, and [=RPs=] {{Missing Episode}}s. This is especially infamous since the higher ups at FF.N like to periodically purge inactive forums/threads after a certain point to save on space, ''even if said threads were locked and unable to be reactivated''. Naturally, bringing up robots.txt is a good way to ignite a bonfire that can be seen from space.

* NeverLiveItDown: 'The Purge', one of the most infamous events in the sites history. In an attempt to free up space, the FF.N admins in all their infinite wisdom saw fit to purge 'inactive' Forums and threads, without informing anyone until ''after'' it had already happened. The problem is, most of the 'inactive' Forums were actually still really active, with multiple threads and memories being deleted left and right, multiple PlayByPost {{Role Playing Game}}s having key arcs rendered as {{Missing Episode}}s and killing any activity the Forum section of their archive has, with many users jumping ship in disgust. Even today the events of the purge can still be felt, with many Forum archives of even popular franchises like Pokemon rendered virtual ghost towns.

** It is possible for writers to make pairings which are recognised by the filter. Whether enough people do it to avoid irritating the people who still hate the new feature, however ...

** The site uses the infamous 'robots.txt' code in its programming, preventing sites such as ''WebSite/WaybackMachine'' from working with FF.N. This, as a result, renders a ''lot'' of Forums, Fan Fics, and [=RPs=] {{Missing Episode}}s. This is especially infamous since the higher ups at FF.N like to periodically purge inactive forums/threads after a certain point to save on space, ''even if said threads were locked and unable to be reactivated''. Naturally, bringing up robots.txt is a good way to ignite a bonfire that can be seen from space.

* ScrappyMechanic: The introduction of 4 character choices in filters. For the vast majority of fandoms the site is used solely for {{Shipping}} two characters together. Since the update this ability to add more characters has lead to an infuriating level of people who put all the main characters in a story as the 4 characters even if the story is just for shipping one of them. Example: Wanting to find Spencer/Aria stories for PrettyLittleLiars, only to find that filtering for those two characters now also brings up dozens of stories that have Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily all included in the filters.

** As of June 2015, links outside the site no longer show up in forum post anymore thanks to Korean adbot spam, and any outside links on a profile page just link back to said profile page. To say FF.N goers were ''not'' pleased would be an understatement.

* MemeticMutation: "There are no FF.N Mods" due to the fact that FF.N Mods are almost non-existent on the site, and there's no real way to contact a specific one directly, and even if you do, they rarely respond to what you're contacting them about. As a result, a ''lot'' of FF.N rules such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or having real life people appear in fanfics is rarely, if ''ever'', enforced, and are still posted on a regular basis and often stay up for years even if they break one of the rules FF.N has in place.

* MemeticMutation: "There are no FF.N Mods" due to the fact that FF.N Mods are almost non-exsistant on the site, and there's no real way to contact a specific one directly, and even if you do, they rarely respond to what you're contacting them about. As a result, a ''lot'' of FF.N rules such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or having real life people appear in fanfics is rarely, if ''ever'', enforced, and are still posted on a regular basis and often stay up for years even if they break one of the rules FF.N has in place.

** As of June 2015, links outside the site no longer show up in post anymore thanks to Korean adbot spam, and any outside links on a profile page just link back to said profile page. To say FF.N goers were ''not'' pleased would be an understatement.

** As of June 2015, links outside the site no longer show up in post anymore thanks to Korean adbot spam. To say FF.N Forum goers were ''not'' pleased would be an understatement.

* MemeticMutation: "There are no FF.N Mods" due to the fact that FF.N Mods are almost non-extant on the site, and there's no real way to contact a specific one directly, and even if you do, they rarely respond to what you're contacting them about. As a result, a ''lot'' of FF.N rules such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or having real life people appear in fanfics is rarely, if ''ever'', enforced, and are still posted on a regular basis and often stay up for years even if they break one of the rules FF.N has in place.

** The hatred is somewhat lessened by the introduction of the exclusion filters, which allow you to filter out stories with specific characters and/or genres that you don't want to read. It's especially helpful when trying to exclude a story with an OC (thanks to the newly created OC character added to all sections) in order to avoid a shameless MarySue SelfInsertFic, or exclude a character you don't particularly like. Though sadly, the OC character is a recent feature, so many of those stories lack it, ensuring that a few always manage to avoid the filter.

* MemeticMutation: "There are no FF.N Mods" due to the fact that a lot of FF.N rules such as no {{Alternate Reality Game}}s, {{MST}}s, {{Lemon Fic}}s, or having real life people appear in fanfics is rarely enforced, and are still posted on a regular basis and allowed to stay up even if they break one of the rules FF.N has in place.

* ScrappyMechanic: The introduction of 4 character choices in filters. For the vast majority of fandoms the site is used solely for {{Shipping}} two characters together. Since the update this ability to add more characters has lead to an infuriating level of people who put all the main characters in a story as the 4 characters even if the story is just for shipping one of them. Example: Wanting to find Spencer/Aria stories for PrettyLittleLiars, only to find that filtering for those two characters now also brings up dozens of stories that have the FourManBand of Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily all included in the filters.

** The hatred is somewhat lessened by the introduction of the exclusion filters, which allow you to filter out stories with specific characters and/or genres that you don't want to read. It's especially helpful when trying to exclude a story with an OC (thanks to the newly created OC character added to all sections) in order to avoid a shameless MarySue SelfInsertFic, or exclude a character you don't particularly like. Though sadly, it's the OC character is a recent feature, so many of those stories lack it, ensuring that a few always find themselves in.

** The hatred is somewhat lessened by the introduction of the exclusion filters, which allow you to filter out stories with specific characters and/or genres that you don't want to read. It's especially helpful when trying to exclude a story with an OC (thanks to the newly created OC character added to all sections) in order to avoid a shameless MarySue SelfInsertFic, or exclude a character you don't particularly like. Though sadly, it's the OC character is a recent feature, so many of those stories lack it so a few always find themselves in.

** It is possible for writers to make pairings which are recognised by the filter. Whether enough people do it to avoid irritating the people who still hate the new feature, however ...

** On the other hand, this has now made seeking out pairings like the OT3 a lot easier, now that one can filter out the fic that deals with just two thirds of the threesome.

** [[TropesAreNotBad On the other hand]], this has now made seeking out pairings like the OT3 a lot easier, now that one can filter out the fic that deals with just two thirds of the threesome.

** [[TropesAreNotBad On the other hand]], this has now made seeking out pairings like the OT3 a lot easier, now that one can filter out the fic that deals with just two thirds of the threesome.

* [[TropesAreNotBad On the other hand]], this has now made seeking out pairings like the OT3 a lot easier, now that one can filter out the fic that deals with just two thirds of the threesome.

* ScrappyMechanic: The introduction of 4 character choices in filters. For the vast majority of fandoms the site is used solely for {{Shipping}} two characters together. Since the update this ability to add more characters has lead to an infuriating level of people who put all the main characters in a story as the 4 characters even if the story is just for shipping one of them. Example: Wanting to find Spencer/Aria stories for PrettyLittleLiars, only to find that filtering for those two characters now also brings up dozens of stories that have the FourManBand of Spencer, Aria, Hanna and Emily all included in the filters.