what's up with GE?

[madeleone]

Does anyone know what's going on with Granger Enchanted? I can access the home page but clicking on anything leads to an error or blank page. Nothing seems to work. :(

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[merlins-babe.livejournal.com]

We still have the sycophanthex archives although I think that the granger/snape one is the only one that is really active.

http://www.sycophanthex.com/index.php

and the Petulant Poetess

http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/index.php

[anticleaelegans.livejournal.com]

As a writer, I've pretty much lost my patience with the mercurial my-sandbox! policies of the former, and am frustrated by the month-long queue at the latter.

It's a shame that when archives go down, they don't make an effort to contact authors and help them migrate their fiction to more permanent homes. Presumably most authors are still alive, though, so the fics are not really gone gone. Yet.

[madeleone]

Yes, but some of the fics are older ones, and sometimes those authors have moved on to other fandoms or just lost interest in fanfic altogether. So those fics might never get reposted.

I remember early on when I used to be into Dramione. The archive Coloured Grey went down unexpectedly. And I even recall an author or two asking if anyone had copies of their(the authors) fics as they were early works, and through computer crashes or whatever they didn't have copies of them. This is why now, if I really, really love a fic I save it to my hard drive and back it up somewhere, just for my own enjoyment.