Admin Post: squidgeworld collections

[bluedreaming]

Very small admin update! I think only one player besides me has a Squidgeworld account, but I wanted to post my turn there so *waves hands*. We now have Squideworld collections that exactly mirror the Ao3 ones, so there's a parent main shirirori collection, and a child sonic shiritori collection. Use at will!

Comments

[sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com]

That's great! I think a lot of people are starting to duplicate their AO3 works on Squidge lately. (This'll give me a push to update mine, anyway.) Thanks for all you do to keep things organized here 💐

[bluedreaming]

A few people definitely are! I will get around to it…one of these days (alas). Redundancy is definitely the way to go!

Out of curiosity, are you familiar with the Ourchive project? It’s currently being developed by a few fans as, not an otw-archive replacement, but something similar to efiction or even a personal archive site solution. The example/testing site is https://ourchive.gay/ and docs/info is at https://docs.getourchive.io/

[sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com]

Interesting! So it's a sort of open-source archiving software for people to host on their own space? I hadn't heard of it or of efiction, so I had to poke around a little to understand what's going on. Anything that helps people start building websites again is promising in my book. :)

[bluedreaming]

I think that’s the plan! Efiction was a fan archive software that a lot of people used to set up different archives; adastrafanfic.com used to run it (but recently migrated to otw-archive, like squidgeworld did), a lot of other single fandom or even single ship archives. I think ourchive is meant to cover that, but also be deployable enough that someone could use it as a personal archive too.

I’ve heard over the years that people have wanted to start developing efiction again, but I don’t know if it’s ever come to anything; in the meantime, those archives have kind of been left stranded, unfortunately. I don’t know if they’d be able to migrate to ourchive (that’s still a lot of work) but maybe?
Oh, if that’s an interesting, you might be interested in fujocoded.com and fancoders.com!