fandom Meta: archiving stories directly from LJ

[arrow00]

So, this is all (once again) cesperanza's fault. It all started with a posting she made in which...well, I'll let you read it for yourself if you're interested, but what came to me while reading it was we need better archiving. Not that existing archives aren't beautiful and whatnot, but there is no tie in with LJ, and the LJ community is thriving, and many

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[pir8fancier]

Thumbs WAY up for me!

[arrow00]

Yay! \o/

[arrow00]

That's the real problem. I like the idea of the script because it can archive stuff to any number of locations, so if a fandom has more than one archive, no problem.

And blither away.

[morgandawn]

I like this idea - if I grok it correctly, your database will only archive the tag info - being able to read the actual story texts will still be dependent on whether the community is still online (or the writer).

As a side note to the community maintainers: I encourage them to use the current LJArchive tool and back up their communities every week. I wish there was an automated tool for that.

[arrow00]

Definitely (as we talked about) I will be archiving the text of the stories as well, just in case lj communities disappear into the night.

[morgandawn]

I love the fact that this is an opt in - and love even more the idea of having multiple ways to backup and archive our fic. I am looking forward to seeing the new 'tool'

[aprilvalentine]

There's been a long discussion on SENAD recently about just this issue. Would you be doing stories for just DS fandom or could there be TS stories too?

[arrow00]

As I mentioned in my post, I would def start with ts and ds. And hope that 852prospect would be willing to participate; if not, I would set up a server somewhere off the grid (not a paid-for server, in other words, but belonging to a sympathetic geek.)

But there would be the possibility of doing this for other fandoms as well; once I have the kinks worked out it shouldn't be too hard to add fandoms to the list.

[true_brit]

Brilliant concept! But you're still going to write, right?

*regards arrow sternly from beneath lowered brows*

[arrow00]

Ah. Heh.

Yes, it did occur to me that once I get sunk into this I might not surface for a while. OTOH, I might go back and forth between coding and writing, writing and coding. They exercise two very different parts of my brain. Sometimes I dream code on the screen, and sometimes I dream of boys boys boys.

A girl's gotta have variety. :)