Superman/Batman Archive
So...I have this Superman/Batman Archive that I've kept up for years now. I'm seriously thinking of just taking it down for good. I'm tired of paying for it every month, and I'm rather tired of answering email about passwords that can't be reset because Yahoo won't deliver the auto-generated password email, not even into the person's spam folder, apparently. I can't turn off the password generator because then the archive will end up with a ton of robot spam posts.
I'm just not sure it's worth doing this into perpetuity anymore when AO3 is available.
Traditionally (and for over a decade), I've been a serious proponent of pairing-based archives, and I've never thought that it was wise to aggragate all of fandom works into one central archive without backup and side collections. But fandom has changed so drastically, and it's not really a homey place anymore where I think I need to care. The person who was developing the eFiction script that most of the archives use hasn't updated it in ages. Eventually, the script will become completely obsolete, either in form or function, so why keep throwing money at a website that I can't develop myself?
The thing about this S/B collection is that I did get permission to archive some of the older stories of authors who are MIA and that aren't really housed anywhere else. If I shut down the site, access to those stories may cease to exist entirely. Perhaps I shouldn't really care about that at this point. Perhaps I should migrate them as a collection to AO3, but I doubt I'll have the motivation to dedicate the time.
Anyway, everytime I pay the hosting bill I think about this. LOL I wonder if AO3 will ever get out of Beta status, and if the script will ever be made available for ancillary archives, as I believe was originally intended.
Perhaps as I move towards 20 years in fandom, I simply don't care as much as I once did.
I'm just not sure it's worth doing this into perpetuity anymore when AO3 is available.
Traditionally (and for over a decade), I've been a serious proponent of pairing-based archives, and I've never thought that it was wise to aggragate all of fandom works into one central archive without backup and side collections. But fandom has changed so drastically, and it's not really a homey place anymore where I think I need to care. The person who was developing the eFiction script that most of the archives use hasn't updated it in ages. Eventually, the script will become completely obsolete, either in form or function, so why keep throwing money at a website that I can't develop myself?
The thing about this S/B collection is that I did get permission to archive some of the older stories of authors who are MIA and that aren't really housed anywhere else. If I shut down the site, access to those stories may cease to exist entirely. Perhaps I shouldn't really care about that at this point. Perhaps I should migrate them as a collection to AO3, but I doubt I'll have the motivation to dedicate the time.
Anyway, everytime I pay the hosting bill I think about this. LOL I wonder if AO3 will ever get out of Beta status, and if the script will ever be made available for ancillary archives, as I believe was originally intended.
Perhaps as I move towards 20 years in fandom, I simply don't care as much as I once did.