If any more get stripped, I'm not sure what to do

[farla]

So I'm checking my options as I redo PR's coding. There were four symbols left to denote different sorts of speech:

\ or \\
/ (// doesn't work)
( ) or (( ))
: (:: doesn't work)
#

I know [] was working last time I checked, but it's gone the way of its fancier cousin, {}. Halfway through writing this post, \ and \\ stopped working and, upon checking, has been stripped from Inheritors and, presumably, any other story that's used it.

EDIT 9:11 - FFN is not loading HTML asterisk scene breaks when formated to the right, but does show them if centered. I'm certain they were loading fine a few minutes ago, and they can currently be added in with either centering.

I think I speak for us all when I ask, WTF?

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[farla.livejournal.com]

The weirdest thing was, when I was uploading the last Unoriginality chapter, even the line breaks weren't working (I had to jump to HTML, add another copy of the code, save the formatting, get two lines, then save the entire document and get one.) and I thought they were in the process of removing even those.

And now I can write *********** if I want.

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Hmm, look at what I saw on the front page:

Private Messaging (PM) page/feature improvements: a) can now embed links to fanfiction.net or fictionpress.com addresses, b) preview feature has been added, c) previously banned characters are now valid, d) PM message is now limited to 6000 characters.

Maybe the PM updates managed to cross wires with the actual story-publishing system, which would explain the apparently inconsistent implementation. Or perhaps this just foreshadows their allowing banned characters in actual stories, and what we're seeing now is a kind of "work in progress thing" as the coding is still getting worked out.

[farla.livejournal.com]

I checked and missing characters have come back in places they were long gone.

I thought the ~ were gone from PR and they were showing up, but I thought that might have just been that they were HTML in the first place. I checked an old story that I know got them stripped months ago (it was one of the ones I uploaded to Fanlib and I had to re-add the characters when I copied it, so at least eight months back), and now it has ~ again.

And their current update does seem to indicate they've been messing with their document manager...