HPFF Weblog

New Opportunities to be Featured on HPFF

2009-07-10T15:48:00.001Z

Interested in having one of your stories featured on the HPFF homepage or in an upcoming Podcast? This summer, HPFF has launched two new ways to help our authors get some much coveted (and much deserved) publicity for their stories. The first is the Monthly Staff Challenge. At the start of each month, a member of staff posts a story challenge/prompt, and all interested authors have exactly one

A Princely Summer

2009-06-14T20:30:00.001Z

We find ourselves taking charge of HPFF in a very busy time. Our queue is busier than ever, we are currently

Writer's Duel

2007-05-05T21:27:00.000Z

Writer’s Duel: Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsGreat is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. … It has finally happened and all of us are preparing ourselves. We find ourselves anticipating the greatest and saddest ending of all times. The Harry Potter series is quickly drawing to a close. This is a Duel like no other. We cannot express the sentimental meaning this challenge

Looking For A Few Good Validators

2007-04-04T02:36:00.000Z

One of the biggest questions we receive here at HPFF is, how can I help the site? Here is your chance to be part of the amazing team of validators at HPFF. As you know HPFF is a growing site and during certain times we find it necessary to grow the staff. We are currently accepting applications for Writer's Duel Validators. Our Writer’s Duels are competitions hosted a few times a year where

Updates to the Rejection Rules for HPFF.com

2007-03-01T23:09:00.000Z

If you're following over from the news posting on this matter, odds are you've already gotten the jist of our new update but, on the off chance that you're hearing it here first, the HPFF staff has elected to make a small ammendment to the written rules regarding the kind of content we consider "stories." While stories that feature a reality tv-esque plotline have always been rejectionable

A Crash Course In Trusted Authors

2007-01-02T22:06:00.000Z

Trusted Authorship has been a big question around here since the Holiday Queue Closure began and, since I had a few spare moments, I thought I would take a second to give our members a bit of a crash course in Trusted Authorship.You can find the subject refered to all over our forums, and the most common place to turn to answers is a section of our Site Rules document - here. Now, there are a

New Trusted Authors

2006-12-19T04:08:00.001Z

I guess this could be considered an early Christmas present for several authors on the site...Our wonderful, talented and brilliant coder, Cattlyst, added a feature that the archive admins haven't really gotten the change to abuse yet . Some of you know that when you have a chapter that is validated, the validator rates the chapter. We now have the ability to look at these ratings as a total

Stuffing Santa: My Star Mochee Experience

2006-11-27T19:34:00.000Z

Even though the Dark Lords Competition is reaching an end there are still plots of murder and torture buzzing around HPFF. Okay, it’s really just me plotting the death of Star Mochee, the biting, complaining and ill tempered house elf that replaced the late Star Bucky. Most everybody who knows me on the site knows that I am a competition-obsessed riddler. One competition I always look forward to

Pardon Our Spiff!

2006-11-26T20:08:00.000Z

Well, if you're looking at this right now, you know that I've been up to something because it's not orange anymore :)HPFF is a big site and, unlike most big sites, it doesn't have an unlimited budget for pursuading people to integrate all of its componants so, like a very small site, not all of it's peices are built on the same structure, so they don't all match...per se ;) Well, we're about to

Backing Up!!

2006-11-23T21:43:00.000Z

Backing up is time consuming, it's true. Just trust me on this one, it's an hour well spent in guarding against the fateful day when you will wake up to discover that everything is gone - just...gone. (The last time my PC died, I almost cried...literally.)Backing Up Your StoriesOdds are, if you read our TOS or our FAQ's, you probably have a copy of your stories saved somewhere on your PC, and

Final Round: Dark Lord's Challenge

2006-11-23T03:27:00.000Z

Man, has it been a crazy few weeks here at HPFF. I don’t know about the rest of the staff but I’ll be glad to finally get rid of all these Death Eaters. Inviting all the Dark Servants to HPFF for a competition has proven to be an interesting experience. First there was my kidnapping and Star Bucky’s murder. This was followed by a most difficult riddle/scavenger hunt challenge in the history of

Server upgrade

2006-11-22T20:38:00.000Z

The server that hosts this site will be upgraded to a new higher spec. model on the evening of Friday 24 November. This is in preparation of the new features coming soon to HPFF. As you will be aware, there have been several coding improvements in the last couple of weeks and we are currently working on a HPFF RPG.The site is currently stable on the existing server, but I envisage more usage and

Busy, busy, busy

2006-11-13T00:17:00.000Z

In case you haven’t been investigating all areas of the site recently, I thought I’d give you a quick update on what’s going on. Aside from a massive influx of new submissions (keep them coming everyone and we’ll it 50,000 by the end of this year!) we have an RPG in the works for all your role playing fans. The Dark Lord’s Challenge is still going strong with a one of a kind autographed picture

Rules for the Dark Lord's Challenge

2006-10-28T21:53:00.000Z

Congratulations, you’ve accepted the task of being the newest Death Eater to join the Dark Lord’s ranks. Now, you will be asked to go through a series of trials to determine if you are worthy of this title. You will seek out several Death Eaters around the site and answer their riddles. Using the answer to the riddles you will solve their final puzzle to locate the next Death Eater

A Painful Goodbye

2006-10-28T19:25:00.000Z

written by: ScarheadIt is with great sorrow that I post today. As many of you know, HPFF’s dedicated and loyal house elf, Star Bucky has passed away. I know I speak for all the staff when I say how deeply saddened we all are from this unexpected tragedy.Although the details surrounding the beloved elf’s death are still shrouded in mystery, a full investigation is underway. The

PHP coder required.

2006-10-23T21:35:00.000Z

Due to our coder taking a very long leave of absence, HPFF requires a PHP coder to help further develop the site. If you are proficient in PHP and would like to help re-code the archive please get in touch.Please be aware that you will need to have a full understanding of PHP and MySql integration. As with all work on this site, it is non-profit and unpaid. But having said that we did recently

Logical's Attack, Star Bucky's Death and the Missing Riddles

2006-10-22T18:07:00.001Z

For those of you who haven’t heard… our beloved Star Bucky, the site elf, has been killed. The other night as I prepared the final riddles for the upcoming competition on HPFF I sent Star Bucky on an errand. I needed my very special coffee laced with Inspiration Draught to help me think of a few more clever rhymes. I simply could not think of a word that rhymed with ‘orange.’