www.fanfiction.net is now open!!
xing li
I'm very happy to announce that www.fanfiction.net is now officially
open!!!!!! And we have done it 3 weekss ahead of projected finish date.
While everyone trick-or-treated we were hard at working debugging the site.
=) Here is what the site has to offer:
http://www.fanfiction.net
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1) 100% automated system for readers and especially for authors
2) Author profile with advanced security tracking to ensure that no one else
can submit under another person's acct.
3) Dynamic rating system for all the stories
4) Author has the option to not release their email address.
5) Top20 fanfiction feature based on the rating system.
6) Author can modify/delete any of their stories
and much much more...
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http://www.fanfiction.net
As far as we know this is the first and only fully automated fanfiction
website where there is no waiting period for any and all
changes/submissions. Everyone here at www.xcelpro.com is damn proud of our
accomplishment. Actually, it's only the two of us..=) Well, enough of my
talk..go see it for yourselves....Any and all comments are welcomed..
Nascent
I'd like to see Gossamer acquire, including self-archiving. However, the
advertising makes me VERY nervous. Xing, are you getting clickthru payback on
those banners? Because if you are, you may be jeopardizing fanfic's nonprofit
status. Until this is clarified, I'd encourage authors not to archive here.
Nascent
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X-Files fanfiction generously hosted by jordan at:
http://geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/1063
xing li
our homepage to reflect our commitment.
Please send any and all comments to my email address. Thanks...
Imajiru
multi-fandom fiction is a wonderful thought, and I commend her (?) for her
efforts and obvious hard work in setting it up, there are several reasons why I
will NOT archive my fiction there, and will discourage others from archiving
there as well.
First of all, in response to the issue of the banner advertising used on the
site, Xing says:
>we have put up a msg on
>our homepage to reflect our commitment.
The aforementioned message states that "The ad space you see above is used to
cover the costs of the server." --To me, this is still a dicey concept, in
that revenues are being raised AT ALL. Most of the fan fiction archivists I
know pay for their web space out of their own pockets -- or at the very most,
solicit donations from within fandom to keep the archives going. A flat-out
link exchange (you show my banner, I show yours) is one thing, but the idea of
mixing commercial revenues with fan fiction... just makes me acutely uneasy.
Also: The author's registration page states that by registering, you agree to
the following: "You give Fanfiction.net the nonexclusive rights to publish
your material and the right to reject any material submitted." Excuse me...
publish WHERE? On this web page? On other web pages? In fanzines? On a
CD-ROM? This is entirely too nebulous for my comfort, and I'm not about to
agree to these terms.
(Not to mention, the statement about getting permission from collaborating
authors COULD be interpreted to mean the Powers That Be who wrote the show in
the first place, and I don't think that's going to happen...)
Someone else I know mentioned that the inclusion of Star Wars in the categories
is an EXTREMELY bad idea, because the Powers That Be in SW fandom are notorious
for being AGAINST fanfic in any form... Fanfic is a grey area, and exists only
because no one has yet squashed it. Maybe we could win a court battle, if it
ever came to that, but... who among us has the kind of money it'd take to pay
the lawyers? I'm leery of ANYthing that draws too much attention to fan
fiction, and this site seems to be designed to do exactly that.
And finally -- what's with the cookies? The main purpose of using cookies is
to track visitors to a site, and frankly, I don't want to be tracked. I have
my browser set to warn before accepting a cookie, and I rarely choose to accept
them, and this is not one of those times.
...Lest this e-mail be seen as a blanket condemnation of the site: The ability
for the author to self-archive their work is a wonderful thing, the potential
for browsing works from multiple fandom and for searching through fic and
rating fic are very well-done. And the overall concept, of creating a central
'home' for fan fiction on the net, is a laudable one; for one thing, it could
provide a place for fanfics that would otherwise go unnoticed, in smaller
fandoms than our own. BUT... I've been an XF fan for too long; I'm paranoid.
I've watched FOX shut down too many websites -- none of them fanfic, *not yet*,
but that could be only a matter of time. There are just too many things about
this site, as it stands, that make me feel too uneasy to want to be a part of
it.
Sorry, Xing; it's a lovely idea, and I wish I could be more positive about it,
but the way things look now, I just can't.
Cheers,
Imajiru
imajiru at aol dot com
or visit me at unicorn dash x dot net
mir...@bayside.net
"xing li" <xi...@ucla.edu> wrote:
> As far as we know this is the first and only fully automated fanfiction
> website where there is no waiting period for any and all
> changes/submissions. Everyone here at www.xcelpro.com is damn proud of our
> accomplishment. Actually, it's only the two of us..=) Well, enough of my
> talk..go see it for yourselves....Any and all comments are welcomed..
>
> Xing
Wow, nice site. Glad to see you took down the $$$ banners, though. Face it,
the money for your server is going to come out of your own pocket. Zines are
another thing, since they're underground and people barely break even on them
anyway.
I don't think it's the first automated place, though. It looks alot like
http://www.fanfic.net/ Same sort of instant upload and archiving with search
features. But better designed. :-)
Hey, you know maybe http://www.fanfiction.net or http://www.fanfic.net and
Gossamer Project people should team up...it would certainly reduce a lot of
work for the poor Gossamer archivists.
-Mirage.
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Xing Li
automated and fanfiction archive system. The good folks over at
www.fanfic.net have an automated system but it only runs periodically which
kinds of defeats the whole purpose of having an automated system.
You be the judge. =)
maie...@gmail.com
Also do you have an email I could contact you with? I can't seem to get a response from the support team :(
biancag...@gmail.com
tal.a...@openx.com
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that www.fanfiction.net is now officially
> open!!!!!! And we have done it 3 weekss ahead of projected finish date.
> While everyone trick-or-treated we were hard at working debugging the site.
> =) Here is what the site has to offer:
>
> http://www.fanfiction.net
> ------------------------
> 1) 100% automated system for readers and especially for authors
> 2) Author profile with advanced security tracking to ensure that no one else
> can submit under another person's acct.
> 3) Dynamic rating system for all the stories
> 4) Author has the option to not release their email address.
> 5) Top20 fanfiction feature based on the rating system.
> 6) Author can modify/delete any of their stories
> and much much more...
> --------------------------
> http://www.fanfiction.net
>
>
> website where there is no waiting period for any and all
> changes/submissions. Everyone here at www.xcelpro.com is damn proud of our
> accomplishment. Actually, it's only the two of us..=) Well, enough of my
> talk..go see it for yourselves....Any and all comments are welcomed..
>
Would love to work with you to help you make more money off the ads on your site. How do I contact you?
Tal - openx.com