firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (Default)
[personal profile] firecat
I was sufficiently motivated by [personal profile] melannen's post How to Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just 10 Easy Steps (https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/534629.html) and delighted that some folks seem to be working on recreating Web 1.0 (or maybe 1.5) that I went and squatted on my username at Neocities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocities "The service's expressed goal is to revive the support of free web hosting of the now-defunct GeoCities."). It's also got at least one fanfic webring. I haven't archived any of my fic there and don't know if I will. I should either do that or make backup epubs from AO3 though. Nothing lasts forever.

Date: 22 Jun 2023 12:03 am (UTC)
inametaphor: A curious calico cat watches from behind a sewing machine (Default)
From: [personal profile] inametaphor
I am so very charmed to see the skills we honed in the 90s become useful again. Writing html! Webrings! I mean this completely sincerely - it makes me feel like a proud internet aunt

Date: 22 Jun 2023 01:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kore
I squat on my IRL semi-pseud EVERYWHERE, lol.

I did get accounts with my AO3 pseud at Neocities and Squidge and one other place. Friends are industriously moving nd backing up their fics and exclaiming nostalgiclaly. I have zero energy anyway, and the thought of moving everything makes me sad. I should at least make backups, though.

Date: 22 Jun 2023 07:08 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kore
Yeah, EXACTLY. I don't think it's going to blow up (unless there are further really nasty revelations, please God no) and I don't even think most people will leave, but I can see it just becoming more and more irrelevant. I don't think it'll ever be sold like Livejournal (or Twitter, or Blogger, or Tumblr, or....) but the performance issues and spaghetti code are deeply concerning, as is how they just keep keeping on with chewing gum and tinfoil without any real fixes.

It's also a bummer because I've been through the fandom rinse and repeat cycle like a lot of people, from Usenet to blogs to Livejournal/DW to Tumblr to AO3 to....now what? and every time there's a big readjustment and then later, a big hole. (Except Discord. Jamais Discord. Je ne refusarai Discord!)

Date: 22 Jun 2023 06:29 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
I think having a backup is a sensible idea, and Neocities is a good place to have it and to practice all of those handy skills or to make things that are interesting in their own way.

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