We have been notified by our hosting provider that we will have to change the IP address of our server in the near future. This will mean a (hopefully) short outage whilst the switch-over takes place and DNS propagates. The new IP address will be http://199.101.97.50 and you will be able to access the site on that address as soon as we make the switch if you are stuck waiting for DNS to update.

However, a more long term consequence of this is that all links to tthfanfic.com will cease to work. Since Jinni dropped off the net some years ago, we don't have any means to update the IP address associated with that name. Therefore, if you have any bookmarks or links on the web, such as in your blog or your profile on other Fanfiction sites, that still use the .com suffix, please update them to .org

I'll update this announcement with more details and timings when I have them.

yeah.. because....far as I can tell... its been tthfanfic.org for years now.

Umm. . . that's probably because there's nothing there at the moment.  The switch-over is a future event, one that has not happened yet.

Correct. To make a long story short, while Jay was the one who acquired the .org version for us in the past and therefore has the password for it, the woman who bought tthfanfic.com oh so long ago hasn't been seen on the site since November 12, 2007. Understandably, that makes it a bit difficult for us to go "Hey Jen, what's the password for the .com URL so we can update it to point to 199.101.97.50?". Stuff like this is actually the reason we transitioned to .org back when we did; we didn't want to be left scrambling to implement something at the last second if a situation like this arose.

If any of us ever find her again, the .com might someday work again but since it's been four years and counting since her last contact with any of the moderators... yeah. Update your links to use .org.

Nothing there since 2007, the last story in the community she ran was added in 2004, the last story in her favourites was published in 2006. I think she simply isn't active in fanfic any more.

If you do, send her our best, eh?

When a person has made it clear that they no longer want anything to do with you, four and a half years ago even, hunting them down on Facebook or the like verges on stalking. We know her name. I had her previous phone number. She had friends from real life who were active on here. None of those avenues turned out to be useful in the past when we faced far more critical problems. Jinni made the decision to cut herself off from any and every part of this community, from this site to its moderators to her own friends. This announcement is being provided as a courtesy to those who didn't switch over their links several years ago back when we changed our primary domain. Jennifer has no interest in talking with us and therefore we have no interest in stalking and/or harassing her when she's made her stance on this site and its members abundantly clear.

And there was no way that I or other relative newcomers could have known ANY of that.  Sad that she made it so messy for you to carry on, but very grateful that you did because this is an amazing venture despite everything.  

Blue

Ah.  Didn't realize she'd cut off all contact.

up until the moment you posted that.. there was no possible way I could have known about that... so...

well, now I know, where as I didnt before.

In the interests of not turning this into a "let's bash Jinni" thread, because I know I and at least one or two other moderators who were here with her from the beginning have strong feelings about her actions, I'll simply say that the parting was closer to the latter but because of that fact, probably created more problems for us than the former would have. This being a prime example of it.

At any rate, the server will be getting replaced at 22:00 GMT. That's:
6:00 PM Eastern
5:00 PM Central
4:00 PM Mountain
3:00 PM Pacific

As stated, if you're desperate for a fix, the IP link will work by five minutes after the transition. No logging in or reviewing or anything, but you will be able to browse the site.

Why do you have to change your IP Address anyway? What was the hosting providers reason?

So they ran out of free space and are dropping IP Addresses/Sites? *edited*

I just noticed that the site is a little bit faster at loading as well.

We've just discovered that email to some providers is being bounced at the moment as they hosting company had not setup a required record for the new IP address in their DNS. I've raised a ticket to get this sorted. The missing messages should be delivered when this is done.

Wow - apparently its been 4 years since I last logged in here because I'm pretty sure Jinni was still around back then!

I'm guessing she'd recently renewed when she dropped out, and bought the maximum time period available, there's usually a big discount for that. Or had some sort of automatic payment set up for renewals and forgot to cancel it until now.

I think you did say that before, my apologies for forgetting.