• I am now an official Supporter of Neocities, because... they're really good, and deserve a bit of money (& also it lets me have multiple sites that way).

• The PPC Histories are finally transferred to GDocs. Sorry to anyone who really loves reading them on mid-grey.

• I've transferred all my site archives over to the new Multiverse Monitor Archives. That's where all the grey went. The Monitor is also hosting the Temple of All Faiths, and will include the Freakish Five archive once I... er... find the account details for it. ^_^

• FanficLand/World are backed up, but not rehosted yet. I'll need to fix them first. Plan is for a third Neocities site with both of them plus a Shipfic Archive, but we'll see.

• I've backed up all (most?) of the random pages I still had hosted on Webs. I still need to rehost my Alternate PPC stuff, but that shouldn't take too long.

• I've created a backup copy of the second issue of the New Multiverse Monitor, but the first issue seems to be down. Does anyone have a copy?

• If anyone has any early PPC-adjacent websites they think should be restored from the archives (not necessarily on Webs), point me at 'em and I'll see what I can scrounge up. I've got space for them. (I also need to pull together some more of the Misssandman.com material; my archive is pretty sparse so far.)

hS

Because I'm pulling webpages from my own sites, it's really easy for me to get a list of what pages exist. Actually saving them requires right-click saving each file, which for things like FanficWorld (190 pages) is a bit extreme.

So I've kludged together a tool to do it for me. The Archive Dumper is an Excel file which reads a set of URLs and the filenames you want for them, and then - look away, techies, you're going to hate this - manually opens every page in an invisible Internet Explorer window and saves them all. ^_^

It runs incredibly slowly - I used the same code for a full archive dump of All PPC Stories Ever and it took hours - but it gets it done. The biggest flaw is that, for most of my pages, the IE 'Are you sure you want to leave this page?' has to be clicked every single time (they stack, so you can leave it for 30 seconds and then just hammer them). Oh, it also seems to break when faced with anything that isn't a htm/html file - CSS files are just opening in TXT and crashing the archiver. But it's fine.

This version is set up for FfW; it's automatically creating the filename column from the URLs, but that code won't work for other sites. Oh, and make sure the path to your archive ends with a \, or you'll wind up prefixing the last folder onto every file. In other news, all FanficLand pages now have very similar names... ^^

hS

• http://agentelanor.webs.com/ (2 instances)
• https://agentrez.webs.com/ (2)
• http://agenttomato.webs.com/ (2)
• https://agenttomato.webs.com/ (52)
• http://bonsaimallorn.webs.com/ (1)
• https://bonsaimallorn.webs.com/ (11)
• http://bonsaimallorn2.webs.com/ (1)
• https://bonsaimallorn2.webs.com/ (18)
• http://bookofnightmares.webs.com/ (2)
• http://caddy-shack.webs.com/ (1)
• http://delta-mike-lima.webs.com/ (4)
• https://duty-of-a-fangirl.webs.com/ (1)
• http://fanfic_land.webs.com/ (15)
• https://fanfic_land.webs.com/ (22)
• http://www.fanfic_land.webs.com/ (2)
• http://fish-custard.webs.com/ (57)
• https://fish-custard.webs.com/ (1)
• http://freakish_five.webs.com/ (4)
• http://huinesoron.webs.com/ (9)
• https://huinesoron.webs.com/ (50)
• http://manxandshadow.webs.com/ (3)
• https://manxandshadow.webs.com/ (54)
• http://myimmortalrehost.webs.com/ (2)
• http://nadineandjodi.webs.com/ (2)
• http://orkenandthomas.webs.com/ (1)
• http://pirateuniversity.webs.com/ (1)
• http://ppc19.webs.com/ (2)
• http://ppc23.webs.com/ (1)
• http://ppc_manual.webs.com/ (1)
• http://ppchistory.webs.com/ (111, how nice)
• https://ppchistory.webs.com/ (180)
• http://www.ppchistory.webs.com/ (5)
• https://www.ppchistory.webs.com/ (2)
• http://rc1701.webs.com/ (1)
• https://rc1701.webs.com/ (9)
• http://rc5593.webs.com/ (1)
• http://rcphi.webs.com/ (1)
• http://reicheruskittypowers.webs.com/ (1)
• http://responcecenter81.webs.com/ (3)
• http://responsecentre32f.webs.com/ (1)
• https://stormtracer.webs.com/ (2)
• http://stranglerfig.webs.com/ (29)
• http://twistedskein.webs.com/ (89)
• https://twistedskein.webs.com/ (23)
• http://www.webs.com/ (1 for some reason)
• https://wildrose68.webs.com/ (1)
• http://xdallyx.webs.com/chapterone.htm (1)

A lot of those are on the Complete List of PPC Fiction, because Hieronymus Graubart thought the dead links might be useful for future reference. I... disagree. I think we want links to be functional first. And, if we want to know the old URLs, they're preserved by Wayback Machine and Archive.today. Nothing will be truly lost if I update them. Everyone on board with this?

My search keys were http://*.webs.com and https://*.webs,com, so I may have missed any links still formatted in the older style of webs.[domain].com or, heaven forbid, anything still lingering as Freewebs. The wiki external links search only allows the wildcard "at the start of the hostname" for some reason. I'll figure out some other way to check for stragglers. Individually if I must.

~Neshomeh

We're fans of a 19-year-old Web Original canon, but we're not just trying to preserve one story, or even one series: we're trying to preserve everything ever written in the setting. Doesn't matter who wrote it, how good it is, or even if it's been explicitly removed from continuity: we want it safe and sound somewhere.

Is that weird? It feels weird.

But also hilariously cool.

hS

I thought it was this site that was going down.

I'll... ugh, I've left half my stuff up there, I'll have to pull it out to GDocs and relink from Neocities. It'll be fine, it's... fine.

Good news is, I do have an auto-collected archive of every PPC story as of about six months ago, so anything we miss should still be safe.

But /ugh/. Thanks Nesh for catching this.

hS