diff --git a/calibre-plugin/__init__.py b/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
index 6a291ae5..e4cbb410 100644
--- a/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
+++ b/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ except NameError:
 from calibre.customize import InterfaceActionBase
 
 # pulled out from FanFicFareBase for saving in prefs.py
-__version__ = (2, 12, 8)
+__version__ = (2, 12, 9)
 
 ## Apparently the name for this class doesn't matter--it was still
 ## 'demo' for the first few versions.
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
index b39dc05b..9383b2d7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fimfictionnet.py
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ class FimFictionNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         self.story.setMetadata("short_description", stripHTML(descriptionMeta['content']))
 
         #groups
-        if soup.find('button', {'id':'button-view-all-groups'}):
+        groupDiv = soup.find('div', {'class':'groups'})
+        if groupDiv != None and groupDiv.find('div').find('button'):
             groupResponse = self._fetchUrl("https://www.fimfiction.net/ajax/stories/%s/groups" % (self.story.getMetadata("storyId")))
             groupData = json.loads(groupResponse)
             groupList = self.make_soup(groupData["content"])
@@ -313,7 +314,14 @@ class FimFictionNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
                 span = listItems[1].find('span',{'data-time':re.compile(r'^\d+$')})
                 ## <span data-time="1435421997" title="Saturday 27th of June 2015 @4:19pm">Jun 27th, 2015</span>
                 ## No timezone adjustment is done.
-                lastLogin = datetime.fromtimestamp(float(span['data-time']))
+                if span != None:
+                    lastLogin = datetime.fromtimestamp(float(span['data-time']))
+                ## Sometimes, for reasons that are unclear, data-time is not present. Parse the date out of the title instead.
+                else:
+                    span = listItems[1].find('span', title=True)
+                    loginRegex = re.search('([a-zA-Z ]+)([0-9]+)(th of|nd of|rd of)([a-zA-Z ]+[0-9]+)', span['title'])
+                    loginString = loginRegex.group(2) + loginRegex.group(4)
+                    lastLogin = datetime.strptime(loginString, "%d %B %Y")
             self.story.setMetadata("authorLastLogin", lastLogin)
 
     def ordinal_date_string_to_date(self, datestring):
diff --git a/fanficfare/cli.py b/fanficfare/cli.py
index 80168c75..12a31925 100644
--- a/fanficfare/cli.py
+++ b/fanficfare/cli.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import pprint
 import string
 import sys
 
-version="2.12.8"
+version="2.12.9"
 
 if sys.version_info < (2, 5):
     print 'This program requires Python 2.5 or newer.'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a0c25c11..6eec4220 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ setup(
     name="FanFicFare",
 
     # Versions should comply with PEP440.
-    version="2.12.8",
+    version="2.12.9",
 
     description='A tool for downloading fanfiction to eBook formats',
     long_description=long_description,
diff --git a/webservice/app.yaml b/webservice/app.yaml
index e0d86594..f615ee27 100644
--- a/webservice/app.yaml
+++ b/webservice/app.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # ffd-retief-hrd fanficfare
 application: fanficfare
-version: 2-12-8
+version: 2-12-9
 runtime: python27
 api_version: 1
 threadsafe: true