Another archive down?
Jun. 23rd, 2015 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snowgallAnybody know what's happened to www.thequidditchpitch.org?
It seems like every few months another classic fanfic archive is in danger of closing. I know that these archives have nostalgic value (and indeed, as someone who's very concerned about accurate dating and records, I prefer having the original places of publication still available online) but it really seems to me that it would be prudent to try to get the owners of these sites to allow transfer to AO3 through the Open Doors project. Short term solutions like funding drives are just that - short term, and I worry about the long term availability of these fics.
But I'm pretty new here, so what do I know?
It seems like every few months another classic fanfic archive is in danger of closing. I know that these archives have nostalgic value (and indeed, as someone who's very concerned about accurate dating and records, I prefer having the original places of publication still available online) but it really seems to me that it would be prudent to try to get the owners of these sites to allow transfer to AO3 through the Open Doors project. Short term solutions like funding drives are just that - short term, and I worry about the long term availability of these fics.
But I'm pretty new here, so what do I know?
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Date: 2015-06-23 07:10 pm (UTC)I will say that of all the old archive sites, I mind thehexfiles the least. That is, something about their color scheme is oddly soothing to me, and makes me nostalgic for fics I've read there. I still prefer AO3 for all the usual reasons, but thehexfiles ain't so bad :)