Subject: Re: Important: Going with the whole 'progress' boat...
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Posted on: 2009-10-01 07:40:00 UTC
Wish I could be useful but all I have saved are most of the original Jay and Acacia missions, which all seem ‘locatable’. With a lot of the dead links it took me ages to find a lot of the up and running stuff, and that happened because an active agent managed to link me to them! (Thanks Lily Winterwood!)
We have a lack of a link to the constitution right now, and the PPC page on Cam's site has a defunct link to the board.
Beyond that, a lot of geocities sites seem to be kinda dead and if not dead will soon be dead, and Oddlots has disappeared into the ether.
Obviously this is not a job a July intends to volunteer to fix singlehandly since that's not possible, so I'm pointing this out to everyone else, since more people results in more fantastic explosions.
Thoughts? Solutions? Suspensions? Colloids? *puns*
Wish I could be useful but all I have saved are most of the original Jay and Acacia missions, which all seem ‘locatable’. With a lot of the dead links it took me ages to find a lot of the up and running stuff, and that happened because an active agent managed to link me to them! (Thanks Lily Winterwood!)
and considering my minimal ability with web pages, I'm probably not the best person to be involved with mirror sites, but in case anyone's wondering, geocities is going down entirely on October 26.
…if we made offline copies as well, just in case more host sites go fwoomp. (Also, I mean to give one of my sisters a binder full of PPC missions and goodfic for Christmas.)
I started putting the Oddlots site (or rather, the PPC section of it) onto one of my sites, here. A lot of the links are still dead (I haven't restored much beyond the Buffyverse missions and chargelist), but the Constitution is up there. So it'd work for now, until I can get internet access back long enough to finish the job.
hS
I know someone has a copy of the constitution we can put somewhere (the Wiki?), and I also know someone was undertaking to save some of the Geocities sites.
I don't remember who either of these people are, because my memory is full of holes. Like cheese. I like cheese...
But anyway, I will volunteer to save the JAAKSONS, the Handbook, and SIELU to start with. I'd be happy to host the Handbook and at least the FicPsych bit of the JAAKSONS, too. I'm a little leery of putting a bunch of other people's stuff where they can't get to it, but if we decide we want to do that... *shrug*
Actually. What if we started up a website just for mirroring this stuff? I happen to like Tripod better than Freewebs for the most part, and they do offer a lot of storage. I haven't even begun filling my StarShadow Hall space (which includes my PPC stuff), and I've been using it for years.
This is just for starters. I've got plenty of links in my PPC bookmarks that are on Geocities that need saving, too. I can provide a list when I'm back on the computer that actually has those bookmarks on it.
~Neshomeh
The Department of Cool and Unusual Punishment (Agents Twiggy, Scorpia, Brittany)
The Department of Improbabilities (Alec Troven)
Response Center #44 (Artemis)
Response Center #444 (Gundamkiwi and Wayne)
And that's it for my links. I think I can probably get to them, but it doesn't hurt to have multiple copies, so please take any that catch your fancy.
And, incidentally, you don't have to be a genius at HTML to help out. All you have to do is go to the page, right-click, select Frame (because it's Geocities), and then View Frame Source. Then just copy & paste everything from the opening HTML tag to the closing HTML tag into a Notepad file. Rinse and repeat for everything linked from the landing page. And don't forget to save any images.
Also, really, who would be interested in helping out with a website for rescued PPC stuff? Something more than one person would be able to access and edit?
~Neshomeh
We could stick them on the wiki and just lock them to editing if it wasn't minded.
That would be okay for just text, but some sites are more than that. The Wiki doesn't allow for the same flexibility of formatting as a regular website. I'd prefer to preserve as much of the originals as possible, including their looks. Maybe that's just me, though.
~Neshomeh