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Here's a list of archives that people have mentioned as examples and a few that they haven't. One has to log in to look at the upload pages for nearly all of these sites, unfortunately. Many of these are probably fairly redundant (use the same code as each other, have the same layouts etc.), but here are the links for convenience' sake:

Fanfiction.net: search, upload

AdultFanFiction.net: search, upload

MediaMiner.org: search, upload

FicWad: search, upload

Glass Onion: search, upload

.moon: search, upload

Skyehawke: search, posting by invitation only

The Archive At the End of the Universe: search, posting by invitation only

Amor Yaoi (Spanish language yaoi): search, upload

Fandomination.net: I didn't see a search function (aside from category browsing), upload

Fanworks.org: search, upload

SlashFanfiction.com search, upload

Slash Cotillion: search, upload

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Area 52 (Stargate): search, upload

Wraithbait (SGA): search, upload

The Gossamer Project (X-Files): search, no automatic upload

Trekiverse (alt.startrek.creative archive): This came up, but the site itself doesn't have anything interesting in the way of search or upload functions.

BFA (Buffy & Angel): search, upload

Due South archive: search, upload

852 Prospect (Sentinel): search, upload

Cascade Library (Sentinel): search, I'm not sure how uploading works on this site

Henneth Annun (LOTR): search, upload

Vicodin for the Soul (House/Cameron): an example of a links-only "archive"

Twisting the Hellmouth (Buffy crossovers): search, upload

The Smallville Slash Archive: search, upload (a personal favorite for the search features alone)

Rockfic: A RPF archive about band members. Registration costs $2.

Fiction Alley: search, no automatic upload

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ETA: People have mentioned lots of other archives and sites in the comments below. Among them are:

The NCIS Fanfiction Archive, which uses code written by the owners

The Faramir Fiction Archive and DaveUncensored, both of which use TextPattern, a CMS.

Favorite features people have mentioned include:

The ability to preview stories and edit text as you're uploading

Full text search of stories, not just keyword/title/author searches

The ability to mouseover keywords and get definitions

The ability to change the font you view the site in

Review/reply notifications for anyone (authors, commenters etc.)

Automatic word counts

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The House Fanfiction Archive (House MD)
http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/

The Sugar Quill (HP)
http://www.sugarquill.net/

http://www.smallvillefanfic.com/ Level Three has a "search in text" feature where you can actually search for all stories that contain certain words or phrases.

Thanks so much for collecting these!

A few more:

Heliopolis (Stargate) http://www.sg1-heliopolis.com/

Hermit Library (Blake's 7) search (a mixed links and hosted archive)

Seventh Dimension Highlander Fanfic Archive http://www.seventh-dimension.org/

http://www.lcfanfic.com/ (Lois & Clark)

I did a poll about a year ago on the archives my friends used, so if it's helpful I've got these to add.

Fictionised (eF): search upload

Always Brian & Michael Fanfic Database (eF): search upload

OZ Unit-B Fanfiction Archive (AA): search upload

the Basement - The X-Files Slash Fanfiction Archive (AA): search upload

Notorious (eF): search upload

Across The Pond (eF): search upload

Firefly's Glow Archive (AA): search upload

Just thought I'd mention that anyone (18+) can get a free 2-day subscription to Rockfic to check out the archive features, including uploading and search functions.

There's also www.harrypotterfanfiction.com which is a very big archive.

Many of these are probably fairly redundant (use the same code as each other, have the same layouts etc.),

Would it be helpful/worth the time to organize this list by type of code used? (Not a coder here, and maybe for coders it's completely self-evident.)

Another archive: Silverlake (http://silverlake.imjustsayin.net/).

- hossgal

I agree that you could set aside a fair number of archives just by collecting those running efiction and astolat's code (where I hate the former and adore all archives using the latter :).

But if we're still going one by one:

TPM: Master and Apprentice (http://www.masterapprentice.org/html/archive.html)

Pro: The Circuit Archive (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/)

XF slash: Down in the Basement (http://basement.ditb.org/)

Yes.

- package used, if standard (source license if applicable)
- technologies used if possible (e.g., php connecting directly to a mysql database, or whatever)
- number of stories currently archived & number of users registered

The numbers will give some clue about whether the software has a prayer of scaling to support millions of stories in the archive.

Most of the archives above don't even come close to the size of ff.n, so I doubt the technical details will be especially useful to us. The user interfaces of these sites might give us some good ideas, but I agree with

astolat and others who've been saying that the code needs to be written from scratch. (Though if you want to go through and figure out which archive uses what, don't let me stop you.)

Oh, good, because that was one of my points.

I also suggest that you not worry about looking at other site's interaction design. Your designer will be familiar enough with it all.

www.thealphagate.com (SG1)

I love having the ability to edit my archived fic here. I can go in and correct errors on the fly and that's *NICE*!

-Slash Heaven (http://slasheaven.com/) [Yaoi-Slash] (Spanish archive)

-Paraíso Fanfiction (http://www.cafeotaku.org/fanfiction/) (Spanish archive)

-fanfic.es (http://www.fanfic.es/) (Spanish archive)

I'm happy to do screencaps of any of FictionAlley's pages if anyone is interested.

Here's another archive: Y!Gallery (http://yaoi.y-gallery.net). It's a yaoi fanart and fanfic archive, with a focus on teh pr0n. You have to be a member to search, so I made screencaps of the process.

You can search by keyword and/or by Category (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal1.jpg), Theme (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal2.jpg), Ages (the ages of the characters involved), Series, Time Taken, Tools, Critique (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal3.jpg), and Filters (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/ygal4.jpg).

So if you wanted to see adult fan art featuring Sirius Black in a dress, your search would look like this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/lurkergrrl/y-gal5.jpg).

The same interface is used in the submission process to categorize your drawing or story, minus the keyword search box.

It's not a perfect system, but I like that you can mouse over the "themes" to get a definition. So maybe in our archive, if someone moused over "gen", they would see an explanation of whether that meant "no romance" or "no non-canon romance" or "plot-driven".

YaoiGermany (http://yaoi.bidan.de/fanfics/index.php): search (http://yaoi.bidan.de/fanfics/search.php). Stories rated MA have a time lock and can only be accessed between 9 pm and 6 am. I have no idea how that works, but you don't have to be logged in.

I like the setup at Sycophant Hex (http://www.sycophanthex.com/), which runs a variety of HP fic archives based on category. My favorite feature is being able to choose the font in which you view the site. I'm making a plea now for a feature of that type to be available in the new archive, because I detest having to read large blocks of text in a sans serif font. It makes the most compelling fic in the world read like instructions on how to program a VCR.

This archive has an excellent, smooth-running registration process -- Harry Potter NC-17 only stories.

http://www.restrictedsection.org

Icarus

www.whofic.com is a very busy Doctor Who fanfiction archive. Many of the well respected fanfic authors in the DW fandom use this.

www.lostfic is an active LOST fanfiction archive, though I'm not hot on the quality of fic posted there, from what I've seen.

Silent Hill Fanfiction Archive (http://shfanfic.splurd.com)
Add new story (http://shfanfic.splurd.com/stories.php?action=newstory)

Since a bunch of my archives are listed here, I'll say hi! :)

I'm alice ttlg, I started off in archiving with The Basement (http://basement.ditb.org/), the primary slash fanfiction archive for The X-Files. It's now using the most current version of The Automated Archive cgi scripts created by Naomi Novik. Sadly she is no longer updating it but it is a good robust version which allows reader comments that get emailed to authors (and is pretty well spam-proofed). What it doesn't allow that eFiction does is author editing or deletion, all of that must be done by the archivist, authors can only upload.

I also host and maintain Glass Onion (http://glassonion.populli.org/) which, while multi-fandom, has been for members of the Yahoogroups list only although the list is pretty much dead these days so very little new fic. And I host and maintain Firefly's Glow (http://firefly.populli.org/) for fanfic about the tv show, Firefly and the movie, Serenity.

I took over hosting and maintaining 852 Prospect (http://www.852prospect.org/archive/), the primary adult fanfiction archive for The Sentinel (and the most active of the archives I run). It is however running a very old version of The Automated Archive, I am slowly working on updating it to the newest version but work has interfered with fun stuff. :)

I also host others who maintain fanfic archives, such as Full House Archive (http://www.fhsarchive.com/) (multi-fandom) and EntSTCommunity (http://www.entstcommunity.org/) which are the two largest. I think both of those are using eFiction now.

I also share my server with Area52 (http://www.area52hkh.net/) which crafted their own customized archive and they also have a variety of related archives.

Any questions, please feel free to ask, either here or via email, alice.ttlg [at] populli.org, I'm happy to share whatever info I can.

I meant to add, that I started in XF slash archiving in 1999, taking over the existing two year old XF slash archive when the previous archivist resigned. I did it by hand originally, like Gossamer still does, taking email submissions, formatting them, adding to a database and uploading it about once a week for a couple years until I switched to the Automated Archive.

Great! Thanks so much.

Do you have any advice on creating a new archive? A wishlist of features? Horror stories? Suggestions of non-lj forums to pimp this project on?

Yes, alice, thanks for mentioning us: The Warp 5 Complex (http://fiction.entstcommunity.org/) (Star Trek Enterprise fanfic) moved away from AutoArchive and loaded all fic into eFiction for reasons too complex to go into here. I designed the site and it is minimalistic because we still have a lot of people on dialup.

Cascade Library (Sentinel): search, I'm not sure how uploading works on this site

It's done manually by the archiving team and they link to the story if it has a website elsewhere, archiving the text only if it's not already on the web somewhere.

I have a background in informatics, and have looked at the challenges of supporting cross-community knowledge exchange and various approaches to collaborative knowledge visualization. I'm not a coder, but would be interested in helping with the requirements vetting if you all decide to go that way.

I think we all realize that authors have a difficult time tagging their own stories, but as a community, we have the means to collaboratively tag stories so readers can find what they want across fandoms. The trick is to integrate this into the system, either behind the scenes, or with a reward to the reader that is an incentive for use.

What I'm basically talking about is a customized version of "if you liked this story, then you might like" and "people who liked this story also liked". How it might work is that readers can tag stories in ways that allow them to maintain their own rec list, and the system also could internally maintaing an anti-recs list. Tagging could be organized so readers can get a "red/yellow/green" light indicator of whether the story is up their alley or not.

vikara and I have had loooong rambling conversations about this -- he is getting his PhD in the field of "sensemaking". So as I said, if you want to incorporate something in this area, I'd love to contribute in any way needed.

There was some discussion of tagging systems in the comments on

astolat's original post. There should be a summary of those discussions going up in a couple of days (if you're curious and don't want to slog through all the pages yourself). It sounds like you have some great ideas; please see the most recent

fanarchive post for details on volunteering.

There is Gossamer (www.gossamer.org) (just choose one of the mirrors to enter). It's an X-Files archive, but it doesn't discriminate based on rating or pairing. It doesn't hold every fic. in the XF fandom, but it holds the greatest majority of them. It's attached (sort of) to Ephemeral (www.ephemeralfic.org). The interesting thing about these two is that new fic gets posted to Ephemeral either directly or through auto-archive mailing lists and then Gossamer gets a feed from them. All the fic makes it to Goss, but only new fic stays at Ephemeral. It might be a relatively easy way to handle things/traffic on a panfandom archive as well.

There are several vid databases and archives as well.

The Buffyverse Music Video Database was the largest, I think; it's down temporarily, but runs on an older version of Automated Archive.

The Smallville archive is similar (and also appears to be down at the moment).

There's also the Witchblade Archive.

I'm a little surprised that WWOMB () (Wonderful World Of MakeBelieve) hasn't been mentioned yet.

multi-fandom. And there's fic from in kinds genres (kinks) and ratings there.

LJ ate my html so here's the link:
http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/index.php

While it's not strictly of total relevance, I mention DeviantArt, since there are some features that DevArt has that would be of interest to the publishing masses, even though it is mostly known as a site for graphics rather than fiction, though there does seem to be a collective of writers over there too.

Also, it covers the whole content AND journal angle...

The archive of the Feisty Daniel Appreciation Society can be found here:

http://www.pandemonium.me.uk/feistydanny/

This is an archive of J/D slash stories by writers who see Daniel Jackson as a strong character well able to take care of himself. No wimpiness here! {BG}
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The main archive I use is
Stories of Arda
http://www.storiesofarda.com/index.asp

(It's a Tolkien Archive, mostly LotR, some Silmarillion, and some The Hobbit)

What I like are ease in posting and editing, the review/reply function with notifications in both directions (both to the review and the replier); the chapterview pages, with easy access to any chapter of multi-chaptered stories, and also to reviews on individual chapters; for the author, the author page also includes such features as automatic word and review counts. In addition, there are Author pages with bios and access to all that author's stories, and if they so choose, their emails. But there are also Reader Pages, where you can go and find out any previously posted reviews, favorite stories and authors, etc.

*facepalm* I meant "their email ADDRESSES* Sorry about that!

Hey, just wanted to add a few I frequent at...
CSI Forensics (for CSI, obviously): http://www.csi-forensics.com/

NCIS Fanfiction Resource (NCIS, multi-lingual, built on the owners own coding): http://ncis.fictionresource.com/

MTAC (more NCIS, pretty small: http://ncisfic.com/

HPFandom (Harry Potter, runs on eFiction 1.1): http://www.hpfandom.net/

And two that are CSI archives but not user updated:
CSI Slash Archive (mainly links to the fics, no real commenitng): http://csi-slash.popullus.net/

CSI Slash (pretty much plain text archive, no commenting etc): http://chance.popullus.net/csislash/index.html

And as mentioned above WWOMB which has posting via yahoo groups as well as user posting.
xxx

The Faramir Fiction Archive (http://www.faramirfiction.com) is a custom built site that uses Textpattern (http://www.textpattern.com), a CMS like Drupal, but less restrictive.

DaveUncencored (http://www.daveuncensored.com) runs on what's nearly a clone of the structure of the Faramir Archive, but with a few small changes. It's not yet a running archive, so it only has sample data in it, but it does illustrate the various functions. One in particular you might want to look at is letting users link to a story on their own site. It also tackles the problem of co-authorship that many of the standard-issue fanfiction scripts struggle with.

At these archives, commenting is open to every visitor without a need to register. This has not lead to any problems besides the odd spam comment to buy viagra, but those are automatically filtered out and don't appear on the site. However it is possible to restrict comments to those with an OpenID (http://openid.net/) (including LiveJournal accounts; see http://www.livejournal.com/openid/).

Forgot to mention: the upload screen looks like this (http://iris.dreamhosters.com/albums/misc/writescreenshot.gif). (This is a screenshot from an admin's account, regular users have less tabs at the top of the screen. And of course it could all be restyled with CSS)

there's also the Angst Archive it's a multi-fandom archive for darker stories.

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