A fanlisting is a web clique that lists fans of a particular subject. Unlike most web cliques, a person does not need a web site in order to join.
The Anime Fanlistings Network is a directory comprised of anime and manga fanlistings.
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The network will be experiencing some downtime on Friday, February 8, at 10PM PST until Saturday, February 9, 6AM PST due to our hosting company, Dreamhost, doing some maintenance. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause anyone.
Since we are quickly approaching the holiday season when many of our staff and fanlisting owners will be on vacation and busy with holiday events, we have decided to hold another troubles hiatus.
This hiatus will last from December 16, 2007 through January 6, 2008; and will only affect troubles and too long on upcoming updates. Therefore, during the hiatus period, no fanlistings will be placed on TAFL troubles.
We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and expect normal troubles updates to occur after January 6th. 🙂
I have served as a staffer, manager and network owner (in order, heh) at TFL/TAFL since April 2003. Were I to continue here until next April, that’d be five years! After over a year’s difficult decision-making and preparation, I have decided to leave TAFL at the New Year.
I have chosen Rosemary as my replacement because she and I are very like-minded, and I know she has the energy and time to devote to TAFL that I currently lack. She has been with TAFL since the inception of the network and I have every confidence in her ability to lead TAFL for many years to come.
(Read more on the forum post.)
It has recently come to our attention that there was an error with the sending of the TAFL link troubles emails. The problem has now been resolved. Any fanlistings recently troubled for an incorrect TAFL link are being resent the troubles email and are being granted a week long extension to fix the problem. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Since we are quickly approaching the holiday season when many of our staff and fanlisting owners will be on vacation and busy with holiday events, we have decided to hold another troubles hiatus.
This hiatus will last from December 17, 2006 through January 7, 2007; and will only affect troubles and too long on upcoming updates. Therefore, during the hiatus period, no fanlistings will be placed on TAFL troubles.
We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and expect normal troubles updates to occur after January 7th. 😀
We have FINALLY resolved our email issues with Dreamhost. All forms at TAFL will reopen in the next few hours. Sorry about the weeks of hiatus, but hopefully all you eager beavers will be submitting to your hearts’ content very soon.
Also, starting today, December 14th, NO troubles updates will occur until January 7th. This is to give people a break over the holidays, and we’re starting it now because there isn’t enough time for the staffers to have a full troubles cycle before the 19th, when we were going to cut off updates anyway.
Happy holidays everyone, and happy form-submitting, as soon as we get them back online.
Just a note that Dreamhost has been DDOSed repeatedly all day, and although most of their servers are now back online, ours is having trouble finding PHP, and therefore the boards are still down. Thank you for your patience, hopefully all will be right with the world very soon. -_-;;
First and foremost, it appears we have been almost entirely unblacklisted, as we only received one bounce today, from Gmail, and that was the past 24+ hours or so. We hope to have the forms online tomorrow at some point, subject to Danielle’s rather insane work schedule. Johan has been scouring them for flaws, and has rewritten the one that was exploited, from scratch.
Also, in an effort to reduce our server footprint, we have secured an IPB license (thanks to the generous donations of our staffers!!) and upgraded the boards; however, Danielle was dismayed to find that the upgrade process, our board being over a dozen releases behind current, completely destroyed our customized board skin. The board will be offline tonight and hopefully will launch again sometime tomorrow, after she has a chance to do more damage control.
Regrettably, some posts and data were lost from the message board: all message board posts, updates and changes made from 10 am – 5 pm, on December 5, were lost. All data, posts, etc prior to 10 am are still intact, but any avatar changes, new topics or posts, or adjustments to your profile made after that time, as well as any new members that registered in that time period, were lost. Our apologies for this inconvenience, this data loss was quite unexpected.
Thank you for bearing with us as we repair the damage, and we hope to launch a mostly-complete, fully-functional TAFL, as you know it and love it, tomorrow. 😀
After quite a bit of research, we managed to trace down the email problems to one major blacklist, who posted a general alert on November 30 about the type of attack and spam sent — indeed, this was the attack that got TAFL as well. Since it most definitely was not just us hit by this, the blacklist was quite prompt in replying, and promises that we will be removed from the blacklist by tomorrow.
Danielle called AOL’s Postmaster tech support as well (toll-free, what the hey) to make sure that TAFL is whitelisted on their servers as well, so barring any further complications, TAFL forms should be back online tomorrow, EXCLUDING the Change Email form. As that was the one exploited, it will be down until further notice while it is completely rewritten to no longer have the weak points it currently does.
We are still dealing with our host and some overage issues that hopefully can just be pinned to the spam attack, but as the blacklisting was most debilitating, we are quite relieved to announce that this looks to be mostly behind us, and that TAFL should be back to full functionality this weekend.
Thanks, as always, for your patience.
If you need to urgently speak to Danielle or the Senior Staff, any category or any staffer, please send inquiries — PLEASE clearly describe who it goes to or what it’s about!! — to animefanlistings {@} gmail [.] com.