#datahoarding

[reseptivaras]

all of this is great but relying on neocities or dreamwidth or tumblr or any service to stay up (and free!) is not ideal

save the media and information you care about, take backups (ideally have an "off site" copy, at a parents / friends house)

also, if anyone wants to learn how to make their own website (for fanfic archival or any reason), feel free to ask me. either here on tumblr or @reisir on discord.

kind of a tangent but, i have also made a script that downloads every youtube video you like. because the internet does forget. i won't.

How To Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just Ten Easy Steps

As the go-to "person who knows about AO3" for quite a few people who read fanfic but aren't really linked-in to wider fandom culture, I've fielded a lot of questions about how to do certain things on AO3 to which my best answer is "you should really start your own archive!" I think, in general, more fans starting their own small archives would be a net good for fandom. AO3 was never meant to be the only archive for all fandom, or even the main archive, and the more spread out and backed up we are the more resilient we are.

But of course I have to be reminded that a lot of fans these days don't really have any idea how little "you should start your own archive!" really involves. (Also, that I should practice what I preach.) So I am now making my own fanfiction archive, and writing up this post as I do it to tell people how to make theirs!

Go to https://neocities.org/ and sign up for an account. It only needs a username (which will also be your website address), password, and email. Pick a username that will be related to your archive's title!

Choose the free account option (if you ever need more than what the free account offers for a text-only archive, you should probably look into graduating from neocities.) This should take you to a menu of "how to make a website" tutorials. You should do them! They're useful skills. But let's get your archive running first.

Hit the big red Edit Site button, or open the menu under your username and select "Edit Site".

Select the "Index.html" file to edit. You're now in an HTML Editor. Congrats, you're a web developer c. 1999!

Find where it has text between the < title> tags. Delete the filler text, and put in the title of your new archive. This text will be what shows on the tab when people go to your archive.

Find where it has text between the < h1 > tags. This will be big header text at the top of your page. Put the title of your archive here again. If you have no experience with HTML, you should read over the other sample text. It covers the basic basics very well! Once you've done that, you can delete everything else between the < /h1> tag and the < /body> tag. Save your index.html file.

Get an HTML file for a fanfic you would like to add to your archive. If it's on AO3, you can use the html download option built into AO3. If you have it as a word processor/google docs file, you should have the option to save as an html file. Save that html file to your computer.

Go back to Edit Site on Neocities and go to "upload". Find the html file you saved and upload it. (You can also drag and drop files to upload.)

The file you uploaded should now be showing with your other neocities files. Right-click on the title and select "copy link".

Go in to edit index.html again. Under where you put your header text, type < br> < a href=" . Then paste in the link you copied. Then type "> Then put in the title of the fic. Then type < /a> . Then save the index page again when you're done. You can do this for every fanfic you have.

Congratulations! You now have your very own personal private fanfiction archive that you are 100% in charge of and make all the rules for. It's at least as good as half the ones I was reading on when I started reading fanfiction and will serve its function well as a way to let people read your fic. You can link to it from anywhere you want! (Including your AO3 profile.)

Blogpost version, with FAQs and discussion

Anyway, here's my beautiful new fanfiction archive made using this tutorial:

Melannen's Fanfiction Archive

(I am honestly way more disproportionately proud of finally making that than I expected to be. It's nice to have your own archive.)

If you make one, share it here ! I want to see!

[swissdatahoarding]

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[frankierohugejorts]

is anyone here good with computers?

hey guys, so ever since jude died i've been trying to sorting thru his socials and stuff, and ive been trying to like. see if i can archive some of his stuff, especially pictures and videos of him

ive been trying to do this on tumblr, but bc his privacy settings are set to 'hide from ppl without an account' i cannot use an original post finder tool and i can't even access his /archive page, and trying to scroll thru his blog manually is almost impossible bc eventually the site reloads and sends me back to the beginning, and changing the page number in the url manually does nothing, so i cant even find my place again

ive been looking into those webpage archiver tools, (like tumblthree i think?) but i don't understand enough about computers to know how to run most of them im finding in places like github, and even if i did i only have access to a chromebook, so im unable to download a program, especially one that runs on windows or linux

anyway, im basically wondering if there's anyone who knows about computers who might be able to give me any sort of advice or point me in the direction of a decent archiving site or chrome addon that doesnt require any special apps and might be able to actually access jude's blog, and maybe won't give me 8 billion viruses???

[penebui]

Clear File of Osamu Tezuka’s MACROSS THE ART 1982-2018 (Sold Out)

[signeficunt]

if youtube ever goes down for good and u want to watch any of these videos again u know who to call 🤙😎

i can't believe i missed james somertons apology video 😭😭

[ranvwoop]

I am generally a proponent for being able to care about multiple things however every post i see fearmongering about @o3 hypothetically being Censored because What if they come for your f*nfiction is. hmm

[amuseablesun]

hey, mysterious benedict society enjoyers!

i read about the series getting scrubbed from disney+ and it genuinely broke my heart. the novels were my comfort series as a kid and i wanted a tv/movie adaptation for as long as i can remember. for it to be scrubbed like this just so disney can cheat their writers and not pay their taxes is nothing short of disrespectful to the people who worked on the show. i refuse to let it hit the memory hole.

i have a full copy of the show, both seasons, available as .mp4 files, and i'm happy to share! i'm not gonna drop a link or anything in here bc i would like to keep my blog, but if you want the files just dm me! i'm glad to send it over.

[gay-david-tennant]

The tale of Rumpelstilzchen (rumpelstiltskin) has lost any and all meaning in our world. Ten seconds after Rumpelstilzchen tells the queen he won’t take her firstborn if she guesses his name correctly she would just call Mark Zuckerberg and would not only receive the name but also birth certificate, search history, preferences in bed, bank account details and every single password he ever used. And not only wouldn’t she find that creepy at all but she would probably congratulate Zuckerberg on his business model which ‘benefits the whole kingdom’.

[anyonghalimaw]

so. tumblr shitting itself coz capitalism demands endless constant growth that eventually becomes unsustainable huh

[pleasant-plant-x]

I FUCKING LOVE M-DISC !

I WANT PILES UPON PILES OF OPTICAL MEDIA VIRTUALY IMMUNE TO BITROT !

[elvishcynicism]

finally, a dedicated external drive just for hoarding a bunch of music :3

[swissdatahoarding]

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[hanzelaislam]

Web scrape Data

My new work Create element selectors.

[youtharcade]

Save all the Games!

I haven't written in a while, but it occurred to me that maybe since the 3DS store is closing down, I should put more thought into preserving my Switch collection as I've spent so so much money on the store and continue to do so.

I had an epiphany of sorts - I realized that you can leverage multiple MicroSD cards to store your collection and as long as the SD cards are assigned to your Switch - you can switch(hah) them out as you please (just remember to turn off your console first!)

So I think my game plan looks something like: 1. Buy a bunch of 256GB cards (since they are the best price per GB option atm) 2. Figure out how to put games onto the cards organizationally. I'm thinking of just using the Group feature on the Switch to figure out what goes on what card 3. Use a spreadsheet to keep track of what game is stored on what card 4. Print QR Codes for each spreadsheet so I can quickly lookup what game is where. Thinking about it more, I could use Shortcuts on Apple products to basically create a query service where when I have a game I want to play I can just type the game in and it will find the info and let me know what card it is on.

While this sounds like a convoluted system, I actually don't mind it too much as it allows me to preserve my entire collection no matter what. I think at my last tally - I had more than 700 games digitally, so this would definitely take some time and resources to put together. I might wind up outlining the process throughout so I don't forget what I did. It would be fun to see how many games per card, how many cards, etc it would take to hold that many games. Plus not having to rely on redownloading games constantly would be nice.

[zackcharine]

I'm having Visions but idk if i'll act on them tho

[hiveswap]

Thanks!!! Saving!!

mcyt is a constantly burning library of alexandria i am so serious