Reminder: GeoCities Rescue Project: Fanfic Writers, Please Be In Touch!

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

This is a reminder that the OTW will give Archive beta accounts to people's whose fic will be thrown off GeoCities when it closes at the end of next month! But you have to come and ask! (Please ask!) If you haven't found other hosting options for your own fic, or if you are an archivist or maintainer of a multi-author site, please email Open Doors with your site name and we'll try to hook you up one way or the other.

Meanwhile, some awesome fans are documenting the existence of fannish sites on GeoCities using Fanlore. If you ever wanted to try your hand at using Fanlore, this is a great time to learn: there's loads of sites that need documenting. And if you know any of the people hosted on or running these sites, please please encourage them to request Archive accounts: we don't want to lose the stories!

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW Blog.

Comments

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I had not heard of this at all.

I maintain a 'ship site that's got links/mini reviews of nearly all the Auron/Lulu fanwork out there (a tiny fandom, yesh). I was going to move it to my own server, but until now I've kept smut away from my own website.

Since this is the first I've heard of all this, I solicit advice:

Would it be better to move the Auron/Lulu Shrine (http://www.geocities.com/auronlu/) to OpenDoors or some other more fan-connected place?

I know nuffink about Fanlore, Big List. Guess I'd better investigate, huh?

[francescacoppa.livejournal.com]

We are totally a fannish place (!), and in any case, its not either/or. If you like, you can have a beta Archive of Our Own account for your stories (this is for the text) and we can screencap the site and describe it for Fanlore. You have total control over the account there and you can certainly host your stories other places as well. We're hoping the Archive of Our Own will be, like, fandom's deposit library: a place that some folks use as their primary hosting, but that everyone uses as a safe backup where links are stable and preserved etc.

Let me know what you want to do or if I can help.

FC for OTW