sometimes the internet sucks (especially when fannish domains disappear)

[ratcreature]

Does anyone know what happened to the reversathon.com domain? I just tried to reread a mcshep_match story (for those interested, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing by ras_elased) and was cruelly thwarted by a link leading from the community into the ether of an expired domain. Did that site move? *hopeful* Or just vanish? :(

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[ratcreature]

Seriously? I get one of these awful pseudo-search/portal pages with a notice at the bottom that the domain expired. And for all links to that domain, as well as for the domain itself.

[stasha2g]

Seriously. Could be that I'm getting it from some semi-local cache and it'll disappear soonish for me too. *rushes off to save stuff just in case*

[ratcreature]

That is so unfair! *kicks the internet* *waves chicken to placate the connection gods*

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Man, that SUCKS!!!!

I hate having to constantly update my recs page and I really hate expired links. It wasn't even half a year old...gr.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

grrr...not on her fic journal; nothing in archive. org; not on wraithbait; and I guess i didn't save anything last summer...

headdesk

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Though, scarily enough, there's ANOTHER SGA fic by the same name on ffnet...http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3698160/1/Wolf_in_Sheeps_Clothing

sadly not the one we're looking for.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I hate that part of maintaining a recs site too. I had it happen that I recced something and a month later the link wasn't any good. Actually a few times I marked something for inclusion and by the time of the recs update it already wasn't there anymore. Sometimes I think it's like trying to rec smoke signals.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Yes, I mean, ephemerality is all great as a theoretical model, but I'd prefer a bit more permance :D

[ratcreature]

I can honestly say that I don't care at all about ephemerality. Well, okay it would be cool if plastic waste were more ephemeral, rather than to just persist and accumulate forever, but not the fanfic stories I'd like to read. *clutches*

One really nice thing about mailing list distribution was that you didn't have to remember to save a copy, just to not delete what you liked.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

*clutches with you*

:)

[stasha2g]

Seems like 'Wolf...' is the only mcshep_match fic that can't be found elsewhere. *wipes brow*
Maybe she'll post it to ras_fic, if you poke her. Meanwhile, I could send it to you, if you want?

[ratcreature]

Oh, it would be awesome, if you could send it to my LJ email address.

And apparently I really know how to pick things, though it's cool that the others at least are still to be found somewhere.

[stasha2g]

Sent!

[ratcreature]

Thank you so much for sending it.