Goodbye, Geocities!

[jaybee65]

My very first webhost! *Wipes away a tear*

The question is: what to do with old stories I hosted there? I suppose I could post them (backdated!) here. Or should I just let them linger on the Wayback Machine? (They're there. I checked.)

Comments

[jackiejlh]

I vote for posting them here. But then, I just really like the idea of your stories being easily accessible, so my opinion is a little biased. :D

[jaybee65]

Some of them already are here, so I suppose it might be easy enough to add the few that aren't. I was only hesitating because they absent ones are all *so* old, but I suppose as long as I backdate them so they won't spam my friendslist it won't be a big deal. (Of course, I'll have to resist the urge to edit them. My writing style has evolved over the years...ack!)

[madamedarque]

Post them here! Post them here! Post them here!

Speaking of which, I've just been reading Intersections again, which was the first story of yours I ever read. Good times. I'm actually doing a very unchronological LFN rewatch. It brings back memories.

[jaybee65]

That's the main story that I was thinking of adding here. There are a couple of others that were co-authored with other people, so I'd have to ask permission for that. I probably will add them here, though, since I have more recent stuff posted already -- one stop shopping and all!

[ms_artisan]

You should totally post them on the Archive of Our Own when it goes into open-beta, and it's not all that far away...

[jaybee65]

That's the reason why I just sort of sat on my hands despite knowing since the spring that Geocities would be closing -- I thought that maybe by the time October rolled around, Archive of Our Own would be open. But it seems to be on indefinite closed beta status? (Except I'm seeing comments farther down that suggest there might be ways of getting on there after all...hmmm.)

[ms_artisan]

Archive of Our Own is scheduled for open beta mid-November and there's a lot of work going on right now to get it ready. There's always a chance it will be delayed a little, but it shouldn't be much later than that.

Otherwise, as Nestra suggests, you can request an account as part of the Geocities rescue project. There's some more info here: http://transformativeworks.org/projects/geocities-rescue

[jaybee65]

Oh, if it's opening next month, I can wait. No need to try to get special treatment.

Is there someplace where they make announcements about it opening? I used to stop by their webpage every once in a while, but it was always somewhat uninformative about that sort of thing.

[nestra]

You can request an account at the Archive of Our Own here, and mention that you had a page on Geocities. They're trying to offer space to people who were unhomed.

[jaybee65]

I'll have to look into that. I was hoping they'd open it out of the closed beta at some point soon, but it seems like that might still be a long ways off. This might be a sneaky way around it, though!

[sk56]

I'd say post them here, but this

http://transformativeworks.org/projects/geocities-rescue

looks possible as well.

[jaybee65]

That might be an option worth looking into!

I pondered your ff.net suggestion for a while, but I think I have just barely enough adult content in the stories in question to be problematic. I could edit them, I suppose, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

[sk56]

I think a couple of different places (here and elsewhere) would be a good idea, given the ephemeral nature of the internet.

(and after having read that Microsoft has somehow lost a huge chunk of files from one of its "cloud computing" sites)

However, you need to remember that this is advice from a girl who hardly ever archives anything...