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howlingmoonrise) wrote2019-10-17 01:20 am
howlingmoonrise) wrote2019-10-17 01:20 am
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the fall of yahoo groups
oh man, this is heartbreaking.
new fans might not even have heard of yahoo groups, but yahoo has just announced they'll be deleting all the content hosted on there on december 14. and for new fandoms it's fine, it's fine, but it's a huge loss for early 00's fandoms like petshop of horrors, which is small as it is and only getting smaller with the constant purges and closing sites taking away so much of its content. in YG, namedly this one, i've found far too many fics that are no longer surviving anywhere else, and now those, too, are going down.
i've saved as many as i can, and i will try to download the rest of the content on the PSoH groups i'm on as soon as i have the time, but i can't in good conscience straight-up upload those fics anywhere for public eyes to see when they're not mine. i'm more than happy to share lost fics with anyone who asks, but i'm not foolish enough to think i'll be around forever, and even then i'm only one person. i already had to dig pretty hard to find as many fics as i did, and it's heartbreaking to think of the fans that will come after me only to find less and less fics with time, only knowing of their existence through recs leading to dead links or none at all.
there isn't much i can do about it, aside from contacting the groups' mods and backing up what i can, myself. and that, i think, might be the worst of it all.
new fans might not even have heard of yahoo groups, but yahoo has just announced they'll be deleting all the content hosted on there on december 14. and for new fandoms it's fine, it's fine, but it's a huge loss for early 00's fandoms like petshop of horrors, which is small as it is and only getting smaller with the constant purges and closing sites taking away so much of its content. in YG, namedly this one, i've found far too many fics that are no longer surviving anywhere else, and now those, too, are going down.
i've saved as many as i can, and i will try to download the rest of the content on the PSoH groups i'm on as soon as i have the time, but i can't in good conscience straight-up upload those fics anywhere for public eyes to see when they're not mine. i'm more than happy to share lost fics with anyone who asks, but i'm not foolish enough to think i'll be around forever, and even then i'm only one person. i already had to dig pretty hard to find as many fics as i did, and it's heartbreaking to think of the fans that will come after me only to find less and less fics with time, only knowing of their existence through recs leading to dead links or none at all.
there isn't much i can do about it, aside from contacting the groups' mods and backing up what i can, myself. and that, i think, might be the worst of it all.