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megumithegreat:
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liz-squids:
pearlmaser:
elfwreck:
olderthannetfic:
unclutterme:
olderthannetfic:
I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.
2002 - FFN bans porn
2002 - FFN bans RPF
2004 - FFN bans script format
2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough
2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2010 - FFN forums deleted
2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
2014 - Quizilla shuts down
2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.
… they deleted Fandom Wank???
Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.
2007 - Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
2012 - Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost
I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.
I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.
Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.
Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down.
Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.
Yahoo owns Tumblr.
1356: 50% of monks.
People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.
AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.
I really hope this BS never touches AO3. Jfc the internet is slowly rotting away as far as fandom communities are concerned.
More is more. Keep your own backups. Post to multiple sites.
But AO3 was set up by fandom olds who were tired of shit getting deleted. It’s about as safe as anything can be.
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megumithegreat:
tsuki-chibi:
whitmerule:
liz-squids:
pearlmaser:
elfwreck:
olderthannetfic:
unclutterme:
olderthannetfic:
I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.
2002 - FFN bans porn
2002 - FFN bans RPF
2004 - FFN bans script format
2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough
2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2010 - FFN forums deleted
2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
2014 - Quizilla shuts down
2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.
… they deleted Fandom Wank???
Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.
2007 - Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
2012 - Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost
I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.
I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.
Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.
Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down.
Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.
Yahoo owns Tumblr.
1356: 50% of monks.
People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.
AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.
I really hope this BS never touches AO3. Jfc the internet is slowly rotting away as far as fandom communities are concerned.
More is more. Keep your own backups. Post to multiple sites.
But AO3 was set up by fandom olds who were tired of shit getting deleted. It’s about as safe as anything can be.
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