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

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I went through the list, and I suspect that 458 is associated with the matching yahoogroup xmenmoviefanfic. the group might be another way to get in touch/spread the word about the project, if you haven't tried that already.

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Some sites are affiliated with mailing lists or LJ communities. I'm not comfortable joining any communities just to pimp the Geocities Rescue Project, though. I think that's generally considered rude, no matter how excited I am about the project.

Thanks for the tip, though!

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

That mailing list is for the other X-Men archive, XMMFF, but seperis and tylergrrls are the people who used to be at a few of those email addresses listed in the spreadsheet.

(I wanna say back in the day there were two lists, each with an archive, with similar names, and then they were rolled into one pretty early on, since it made no sense to duplicate.)