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nonny · 7mo

any examples of fandom community driven fanfic archives? i don’t have enough fics to make my own personal archive but that would work for the small discord of the fandom i’m in!

i'm glad you're considering this!! so are you looking for examples of like how they look/work when active, or examples of how to set one up? i'm going to assume the latter, but if you wanted examples of functional ones too let me know!

https://efiction.org is what i use, and what most old-school fanfic archives ran on (if they used anything at all besides just straight html, anyway). it's extremely easy to set up as long as you have a domain with php. it kinda lags behind in updates, but it's still very much usable!

https://getourchive.io/ is newer and way more advanced. you need vps and need to be okay with python... which i do not have and am not. i'm waiting for a release with an installer that does it for me lol. but it's one to keep an eye on!

wordpress (a self-hosted domain) is also a decent option, and there are plugins and themes that make it look more like a publishing archive.

i think some other fanfic websites use different CMS but i am not all that familiar with them.

what i'd really love is seeing a newer, easy-install software for archives, but i don't know if it'll happen. but i can hope!

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