This top post, not matter how old, is always the most relevant post regarding Sycophant Hex on the whole.
Goodness, we have made it another year! I want to thank everyone again for the donations, particularly since we were hit hard by spam bots in November, December and January before Nexcess could help us block them all out, causing us to have montly overage fees of $75 per month. That was a hard financial hit, so I wanted to thank all of you who were incredibly kind enough to help donate to mitigate that unexpected expense!
I am always blown away by the help that is extended to pay for our site to continue to run.
We are officially paid up until June 1, 2027 for both the webhosting fees (which are unfortunately $370 a year now) and the smaller domaine fee. So thank you again to everyone that has helped.
DONATIONS
Again, I am always extremely grateful of for all of the donations that anyone sends our way. Sycophant Hex has always been free to use; I cannot express how very thankful I am to everyone whom donated, your contribution has allowed us a place where you can find the fan fiction you would like to read for free.
As always, we understand if you are unable to donate - the one thing I have learned with the new social work position I have, is that some of us are just one car repair away from disaster - I know all of us have suffered in some way, so if you haven't the funds, or even the inclination to, please don't sweat it, lord knows it's an effort even to get out of bed somedays. I'm just glad we can be here for another year!
If you do have a desire to donate, we have a couple of methods to use...
PAYPAL
You can always donate directly through send a friend money on PayPal via sh.userhelp@gmail.com email address or through the paypal group pay set up:
https://paypal.me/pools/c/8qaGEpi05m
LIBERAPAY
We are still using Liberapay... I know several people have expressed disatisfaction over the site because it forces a person to then use Paypal and not everyone is a fan of Paypal. I have not, unfortunately found an alternative to this that will allow someone to dontate to use without using Paypal.
The direct link is (in case the widget is unavailable or wonky):
https://liberapay.com/SycophantHex/donate
Unfortunately, Liberapay doesn't allow for a one time donation, so if you do use this, please just do a custom amount per year, then once the first transaction has gone through, discontinue it so it stops right away.
If you know of a place to set up for donations that is free and easy to use, please let us know, since we're always looking for easier options for people to use.
INTERNAL EMAILS
We are still limping along with the E-Fiction software. Right now, we are going to keep chugging along with this - I know the buggy problems are annoying, but financially we don't have a way to pay for a new program that would work better and no one with enough knowledge on the software that otw-a offers (which is what Archive Of Our Own uses) has been available to help.
I always interested in hearing about other website platforms that could possibly work, as I don't know what I will be able to do once E-Fiction is unsupportable at all. So if you have any advice, please let us know.
This means if you register to create a new account or have lost/forgotten/can't access you account and need a new password, you have to email sh.userhelp@gmail.com to get a new password created for you so you can access the site.
When you email for a password I need to know:
Archive name (ie Ashwinder, Occlumency or one of the others):
pen name/user name chosen:
email address on the account (even if you no longer have access to it):
Please be patient while you wait for a response - it can take up to take anywhere between 10 to 14 days before a new password has been sent to you, depending on work schedules, holiday and school scheduled and whatnot. If you haven't received an email response back within 15 days, please email again, as the original email may have gone astray.
CALIBRE
As we head into summer, I know many people are looking for options to download their favorite stories so that they can take them with them to read. The ebook reader, Calibre free, has a fanfic extension where you can copy and past the link of the story you want and it will convert it into whatever readable format you want (epud, pdf, mobi). Youtube has tutorials on how to work the program for this specifically.
Calibre's website: https://calibre-ebook.com/download
We are actively trying to fix some database issues across the board on all five of Sycophant Hex's archives so that we can get email functions set up again.
Because many of the problems are spam related and is actively harming the site, we are doing our level best to control that issue.
Until this is done, the automatic emails for new accounts and password resets will remain off.
If you create a new account or need a new password, please email the help desk with the user name you chose as well as the archive name, since each of our archives is it's own database. Keep in mind that it may take up to 10 days for a response depending on work schedules and the amount of email requests received.
This means that we are deleting suspicious user accounts... accounts with links to pornohub and whatnot.
If we have accidentally caught and purged your legitimate account, we deeply apologize.
Please send us a note to sh.userhelp at gmail.com - with the archive name, your user name and the email you used on the site and we will do our level best to resolve the situation of the deleted account.
It has been brought to our attention that due to the Yahoo data breach, if you used a Yahoo email account to create a Sycophant Hex account that your password may have been compromised. We request that you a) change your password if you are able to, or contact us to create a password for you and b) use a different email service than Yahoo when you use the site.
Thank you,
Celis
