Cleaning up accounts

[gwyn]

I apologize to the people who are subscribed to me on AO3 for all the postings that have come up of old stories, and will continue for a little while. My ISP seems to have been taken over by new people, who are now charging for the piddly web space I've been using since the '90s to host my fic. I'll be damned if I'm going to keep paying them for this, so I'm beginning the slow process of moving all my old fic, and in time changing my email address (which will be hard, since everything is linked to me at this space, and I've had this email for centuries). I never thought there'd be people subscribed to me at the archive, but apparently there are.

I'm really sad about this. Part of it's that I have inertia, part of it is that I'm lazy, part of it is a lot of other things: I hate the AO3 interface and have yet to find a skin that isn't butt-ugly or completely incomprehensible to me (and I hate the way the one I have squeezes my icon), though now that you can list things alphabetically and it ignores articles like the and an, that's a slight step forward; I can't stand that my lovely cover art from people like X can't be posted with/on my fic; and it's just hard to let go of something I've had for most of my fannish life.

But I've been paying a lot for the vids hosting site, and figure I might as well use the domain I pay for to have all my stuff in one place. It seems like a waste of time to even have somewhere to post things. If I was sensible I'd probably just take it all down and go with YouTube or Vimeo and AO3. Not sure why I'm not, other than that I have always liked seeing people's fannish spaces, and there's absolutely nothing about any of these other places that feel like "mine."

Oh, and I guess this is where I say if there are any old stories you wanted to keep from the web site, get 'em now. I think I'll get everything up to AO3, but I can't guarantee it. I can't even remember most of the stuff I've written.

Anyway, at some point I will catch up to all these things being posted. I'm only partway through the X-FIles stuff, and I still have all my Buffy crap to go. There is a LOT of fic, a lot of huge stuff there since I have such a tendency to write long. And a lot of them won't post in the importer, so I have to do everything by hand. Bleh.

I hate change. Change is bad.

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha...OK so your second paragraph? Reads to me like "blah blah AO3 blah blah web page." THAT's how inept I am about this tuff, which is why I'm so frustrated with the stuff on AO3. There are all these skins that say customizable but it might as well be in Mandarin. I think a lot of the people who've set things up over there thing that everyone is as ept as they are, and they don't understand how little some of us grok this stuff.

[franzeska]

Ha ha. Basically, a user can make their own skin, but other users can choose not to see it (like style=mine on LJ). So it's still not like when everyone had personal sites that actually seemed personal. On the upside, you don't get stuck with every single person's differently terrible design sense though.

I dream of a day when DW and AO3 have the number of active skin-creators there are on LJ. Customizable or not, I'd rather just use somebody's prefab skin that I already like.