why OTW!

[astolat]

Over in otw_news, the Community Relations team of OTW is running a Why I Joined/Support OTW week, and here is my contribution. :D While I'm posting, I will also take this opportunity to pimp the latest recruiting posts up in otw_news -- volunteer to be a Ruby Coder or an XHTML/CSS Coder! It will be fun! ♥

Comments

[kassrachel]

When I want to take out a book from the library, in disappointing cases the book might be out or worse yet missing, but at least I don't have to spend three days finding out where the library's address is this week, what it's been renamed, what the secret password for access is today.

Word!

*\o/*

[astolat]

\o/

[ainsley]

♥

Thank you for sharing your dream with so many of us!

[astolat]

heeee! yes, let us describe it that way, as opposed to "thank you for talking really fast and somehow tricking so many of us into ridiculous amounts of work!" ;-)

[half_elf_lost]

You describe why a few of us continue to keep the Library of Moria updated and running, even with submissions down. It provides some of the history of a fandom I'd be loathe to see disappear.

[perfica]

And I thank you for it! It was the first major archive I hit and loved when I entered fandom.

[half_elf_lost]

I do hardly anything, but thank you. It too was my first archive and I still remember the astonishment of realizing all the lists of names were pairings and each of those links was FILLED with stories. To me, losing something like that is equivalent to a library burning down.

[astolat]

*nodnodnods!* Yes! I want all this fannish history around! *<3 to you guys*

[thepouncer]

Data loss haunts me. When I established my del.icio.us account and imported links from the desktop computer I hadn't used in over a year, I was appalled at how many fan-run sites had disappeared. Entire archives, individual author pages, fan sites - the thought of there being a fan-run place, with the proper organizational framework to keep it running: that makes me very happy.

[astolat]

It is seriously AMAZING in a terrifying way how fast fan sites vanish. I don't know if you remember the old ksnicholas AOL site, the huge master list of fan fiction sites on the internet -- she stopped updating it, and in less than a year it was practically useless except as a way to taunt yourself with the stuff you couldn't find, because too many links were broken. :/

[nestra]

Oh, god, that was one of the first sites I found and used. *sigh*

nostalgia

[copracat]

And it seemed so very big then but compared to now: scarcely a handful of sites.

It's not just fan sites. I found many broken links to deleted LJs and now-locked entries when I tagged my LJ.

[carmarthen]

That's not at all the same thing as wanting to be serious in fandom.

Thank you so much for making that distinction.

I'm seriously about all my hobbies, or they wouldn't be worth my time. I'm serious about my friendships. But that doesn't make them not fun.

[astolat]

right! :D