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By the turn of the millennium, ASSTR was one of the best places to find a vast, unmoderated range of fiction, but today it is a "digital zombie." The website is still online but essentially unmaintained. The site stopped being maintained around 2017 and has severe functionality issues: the list of authors is outdated, the FTP system for uploading stories is broken, and no new authors can register. Nevertheless, a few existing authors continue to upload new stories, keeping the site on "life support".
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