When I'm trying to get into fanfics on ff.net, I'm getting a page that says, in big characters, "403 Forbidden".

Which sounds kind of cool and mysterious. Much more interesting than something bland, like "this server cannot be accessed at this time."

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

Any brilliant computer minds out there who know?

That site has been glitching for me for a couple days now.. every once in a while, it will just show a blank screen when trying to go to the next chapter. I also got the 403 Forbidden error message when trying to use a link to the site, then it worked just a few minutes later.

*sigh*

Methinks their servers are having indigestion, maybe?

~~Wiccan~~

*facepalms* Omg, that site -_-. Even when it's not considered to be glitching that message will still come up from time to time, but- like Wiccan said- you click back a few seconds later and there's no issue. What's killing me about FF.net is half the time I upload to that site, I have to spend an hour editing 'cause it transforms my carefully ordered paragraphs into the dreaded Wall o' Text O_O.

Fear the Wall!

Ick. The wall. :/ Yeah, FFN is becoming too much of a pain. Half the time I forget to post in there the stuff I post on here...

And I'm sorry to say, I have no idea what that means. I can ask my sister if she knows, though.

Mediaminer & FF.net . . . hmm, maybe it's the powers that be telling us to post our stories exclusively on Dokuga XD

Forbidden!
From an end user standpoint, it pretty much just means "this server cannot be accessed at this time" like you said.

On the bright side, at least it's giving you cool sounding phrases... I just get blank pages

The rejection hurts...

I got something about trained monkeys once... Just getting a blank screen atm.

-_- damn you, FFN. Damn you.

The trained monkeys is a deviantART thing. At least they have a sense of humor about when their site f's up XD

okay so whats wrong with FF.net NOW?! It just went back up and already I can't get in to it again! Is it just on my end or are others having probs with the site too?

I have been attempting to visit ff.net way more than usual in the past few days, simply because of the random chance of succeeding at accessing the site. Like an elderly person at the nickle slot machines. Maybe the site administrators are psychologists, perfoming that old experiment where they give one group of rats a consistent reward for performing a behavior, and another group of rats is not rewarded consistently, and flake out and become addicts because of it. Just we are the rats...

That's an interesting theory, Knife. XD