Rumours of ff.net collapsing

[mific]

Warnings about fanfiction (dot) net disappearing for good have intensified on tumblr. Obviously it's not a problem if the writers later uploaded their works to AO3, but there are some significant writers who never did.

The site's a nightmare to rescue fics from as it has barriers to copy-pasting, and now a captcha barrier to any downloading.

 

Ways around this that I've found:

- Use a pc and right-click to save the page as an html, which can later be resaved as a text file to get rid of unwanted crap. You lose any italics but at least the fic is saved and can be made into a pdf or ebook (if you prefer to read it that way).

- A better alternative is to see if the fic (often more than one page, if multiple chapters) has already been saved in Wayback. This only works if the Wayback link is fairly old, i.e. precedes the introduction of the captcha barrier. But there often are these older Wayback links, so I'm making summary documents with a working Wayback link (where all the chapter links also work) for each fic, for each author (doing SGA currently). I hope to be able to upload these as webpages to Fanlore, eventually, or maybe squidge.org might archive them.

 

Got any other fic-saving tips or tricks?

 

And can you think of any due South writers on the ff site and not on AO3 it'd be good to save/create one of these summary Wayback pages for?

Updated fic links on the Audiofic Archive

[mific]

Just to let you know that all the fic links for due South stories on the Audiofic Archive have been updated (almost all were still locatable). So there may be some older dS fics that were never on AO3 that you can access this way. Here's the link to all the due South podfics on the Archive. NB: If you use 'advanced search' with 'due south' in the fandom field and and 'backup' in the top freeform field, it'll locate fics that aren't on AO3 (where the backup is for the text post rather than the podfic post). 

Not all of the due South podfics in the Archive have streaming links, but they almost all do have working download links now, and for a few fics, the podfic is the only copy still available.