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: 2017-02-10 07:12 pm (UTC)I still don't know what happened to the Quidditch Pitch, but I am glad to report that the owner of the Hexfiles and HPF finally did allow the Open Doors project to archive all of those fics on AO3. So at least some got saved!
There are still more independent archives out there which would be nice to have backups of. Like Fictionalley (which went down a few months ago, and then came back) and skyehawke (which might be multi-fandom? not sure). Anyway, we can hope!