FanFiction.Net -- Javascript trojan

[LilFluff]

I should note for irony's sake that just a week ago I was having one of my irregular bouts of considering whether it was a good idea to finally get a ff.net account.  Every other time I seriously considered this, something happened (ff.net's admins being jerks about something, usually) that convinced me not to do it.  The earthshaking synchronicity of yet another good reason not to get an account there appearing within days of the question resurfacing in my mind is not without its amusement value.

I don't recall what it was that happened the last time I thought about signing up for FFN, but I recall about two years ago I almost signed up and then something made me stop. That's also been why to the confusion of some of my family who respond with, "But you're a techie, what do you mean you don't have a Facebook account?!", I to this day don't have a Facebook account. Every time I even start to consider it they either have one of their regularly sheduled massive privacy/security breaks or pull a stupid management move.

Does FFN even really have anything going for it beyond sheer size and having snagged an obvious web address? Looking from the outside it seems to me it's basically surviving in much the way FurAffinity does for furry art, "Well yes, our management regularly punches itself in the face, but no one else is even a fifth of our size so where else will you go if you want an audience?" (Which since some use FA as a source of income by using it as a portfolio to attract clients for commissions means giving up the largest online site would hurt...)