I want to answer the fairness question directly, because you've raised a real one.
The limit isn't a charge to read any particular author's story. It's a cap on overall use of the platform — the hosting, indexing, moderation and serving that costs us money to run no matter how a story got here. Free stories are still free; what's metered is how much of the service a reader uses in a day. For authors who do want to earn, our Earners program pays commission, with consent, on subscriptions — so nobody's work is ever sold out from under them.
A few honest things about why it works this way: we can't run advertising given the nature of our content, and unlike a donation-funded non-profit we have staff and authors we actually pay. So the money has to come from somewhere, and we'd rather it come from heavy consumption of the service than from putting individual free stories behind a paywall — which we haven't done and won't.
The overwhelming majority of readers never reach the limit, and it doesn't touch the experience of writing here or having your work read. But I hear the deeper point — that contributors should feel recognised, not metered — and that's the part I'm genuinely looking at.
2 months
Ffancy:
Reading and writing stories has always been THE primary reason I come to FF. And over the years I've seen many good writers come and go, and their stories disappear into the ether. Always thought that staying and keeping my stories available was good for the site. Apparently not, because now I'm getting hit with the limiter and told I have not contributed enough.
Hey Ffancy,
I see you've contributed 30 stories over 16 years, and that's a real and meaningful benefit to this community which is genuinely appreciated. It's authors like you are a core reason why readers come here.
Your frustration makes sense to me. You've been giving something to this platform for a long time, and it's fair to feel like that should count for something when a limit like this lands in your lap.
I'm honestly taking this kind of feedback seriously, because the question of how we properly recognise long-term authors is one I want to get right. I can't make promises here in the forum, but this is the kind of conversation that will shape how I think about what contributor recognition going forward.
If you're open to it, I'd love to continue this conversation with you more directly. Please reach out in the PMs.
Hiccupx
2 months
Hey, thank you sincerely for your 15 years with us — that kind of loyalty genuinely means a lot.
We want to be transparent: this change only affects around 10-15% of our most active readers — the real power users who are going through 20+ chapters a day. For the vast majority of the community, nothing changes at all.
For those who are hitting the limit, it's actually a sign of how much you love the content here — that's the kind of reading our upgrade is designed to support. The writers creating those hundreds of chapters you've enjoyed over the years are still here, still writing, and helping to keep the lights on for this platform.
The 20-chapter daily limit isn't about restricting casual readers or discouraging people from discovering new stories — it's a way to make sure the platform can keep existing for the next 15 years, not just the last 15. Free access remains available to the overwhelming majority of users.
We genuinely hope you'll stick around, but we understand if you need to take a break. The door is always open.
2 months
How can you realistically stop anyone from recording a live stream on any website? Whatever block feature you have, someone can just record the screen on another device. Anyone live streaming would need to be comfortable with being out there.
2 months
Urchie:
Adding livestreams in dms seems like a bad idea
It's your choice if you want to use it or not. It's completely optional.
2 months
I've just uploaded another update to the chat application. This one was a bug fix update to try and eliminate the chat leaks. The problem is that this leak bug is elusive, because it only seems to happen under certain conditions. However, I've built additional security checks into the code, so that even though we can't completely replicated the bug at this stage, hopefully we'll still catch it with these checks.
If you find the chat leaks are still happening, e.g:
* Suddenly you are thrown into someone else's private chat
* Your in 'General' chat and suddenly you see a message that was intended for a private chat room
please let me know below, giving as much detail as possible about what happened.
2 months
Apologies for the disruption to service. The site was down:
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2 months
We wouldn't remove it, since some members may find it valid, however we'd flag it and make it possible to exclude AI generated content from a search if desired.
3 months
Scammed twice on this site? Would love to hear how this came about.
3 months
The difficulty with AI generated stories, is that they are almost impossible to detect with any accuracy in an automated way.
I have an idea though, but am not sure if it would work or not. What if readers could vote whether they though a story was AI generated or not. So say after 10 votes you might get a indicator stating '40% of readers considered it AI' or something similar.
Any opinions on this?
3 months
