I don't seem to have anything affected, but then I don't have a lot shared from Drive, and what there is is likely published.

I'm still concerned about docs with URLs that end in /edit and variations on that, and there are an awful lot of those from Iximaz, SkarmorySilver, Zingenmir, and others. I'd love to hear from you or anyone else with un-published docs about what Google has to say about your stuff.

Also, a request to all Docs users: Please credit yourself as the author by name somewhere in the doc. If it's published, there is otherwise absolutely no way to tell who it belongs to within the doc. I'm begging you, please please please do this.

~Neshomeh

Good to see you! Nostalgia seems to be in the air this year. I hope it continues. ^_^ All is well with you, I hope?

Re. Gdocs, fortunately, I believe this is an easy fix. For each doc, simply select File --> Publish to the web, and that should generate an HTML page with a stable link ending in /pub.

We think these will be stable, anyway. To be extra-sure, you can always save pages at Archive.today, too. This is a little tedious for Gdocs (Archive.today preserves as much of a page's function as possible and there's quite a lot to preserve in a Gdoc, so it takes a while), so anyone and everyone pitching in would be most welcome. Just check to be sure someone else hasn't saved a particular page first. {= )

Oh, and while I'm at it: Gdocs users, for the love of Kanun and Spelin, please attribute yourself and any co-writers as the author(s) by name somewhere in your docs! There is otherwise no way to figure this out from a published doc alone, and it's giving me anxiety. I mean, I know who wrote which agents for the most part, and I can usually figure it out when I don't, but not everyone is me. {= P So, please, for posterity.

~Neshomeh

Publish to AO3, or a website, or something.

If you must, use Google Docs' HTML publish feature (which might actually be affected by this, but really shouldn't be). And keep backups.

I can pull a list of original URLs from the wiki. If other people help find archival links and/or updated ones post-change, that will be dandy. I'll need it when it comes time to replace them with AutoWikiBrowser.

~Neshomeh

According to Slashdot, "Users who have shared a file that is affected by this change will get an email from Google informing them of this change and how to opt out of needing those files from being updated. These emails will be sent out to users starting on July 26th. ... Users have until September 13th to decide if they want the update applied, so if you have no files that are publicly accessible, then you won't need to do anything."

So, keep an eye out starting July 26, opt out any files you want to remain public, and you should be fine.

In the meantime, actually using Publish to Web for files you wish to remain accessible seems like a good idea. It makes them load faster, too, which is nice on the reader's end. Also if, say, someone of an archival bent wants to scan through it multiple times for mentions of canon characters so the mission can be listed on the characters' wiki pages. Hypothetically. ^_~

~Neshomeh

I don't even know how many hundreds of raw Gdocs links are currently in use, but it's more than a few. And it'll be annoying for me to work out which ones are broken, since I've probably opened them all at one time or another.

At least I don't have many of my own to worry about; I never much liked Gdocs as a hosting solution. I might have a few things that didn't fit well elsewhere, but shouldn't be many.

~Neshomeh really didn't need another project right now.