FanFic

It seems that since the internet and fanfiction combined there have been fanfic sites hosted at GeoCities - Authors could upload and host their fanfic on their own homepages to share with the world. While nowadays there’s plenty of sites that host and archive fanfiction there’s still plenty of old stuff to be found via  GeoCities.

Unfortunately that won’t be the case for much longer according to this report. At the end of the year GeoCities will be closed.

As mentioned there are plenty of places to choose from when it comes to fanfic from personal pages to sites like my own fanfiction archive and fanfiction.net etc but if you have (or know of anyone) that has some old stuff hosted on GeoCities and nowhere else now is the time to move it somewhere else if you still want it available to share with others.

Over time there’s been an awful lot of incredibly good fanfic that has just disappeared from the ‘net - some of it is deliberate (the authors wanting it removed etc) some of it not (sites closing before authors have a chance to move it - and not having a backup etc)  and I’d hate to see more of it go.

If you have your stuff hosted on a GeoCities homepage and you want it to remain online please take a moment to find out where else you can host it (or if you no someone please pass the message on) there’s plenty of other hopefully more permanent places it can be archived**

Help spread the word now before more fanfic sites disappear

** as a side note if you’re interested in hosting it on your very own site or blog but don’t know where or how to start feel free to give me a yell and I’d be happy to help you get your own site set up

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