Oct. 14th, 2022

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Well, phooey.  

A few years ago I created a personal site on Weebly to host my fanfic, including stuff that - for a variety of reasons - I haven’t put up on AO3 (and some of which is not currently posted elsewhere).  It’s in no way transactional, but Weebly is suddenly requiring that I create a Square account to continue to use their service.  

I don’t want a Square account.  I don’t need a Square account.  I get Weebly’s point - its focus is small business sites - but I have no intention of complying.  I’m not giving Square my information just so I can still post fic.  Especially since it would have to be my IRL info, not my pseudonym.  

However, that means that my Weebly pages are, at best, frozen.  I can’t add anything more (not that I was, I’m way behind on updates).  I don’t think it was getting many hits, but...now what?  

Personal fanfic sites aren’t really a thing any longer.  I could go the DIY route - buy a domain name and some hosting and create pages from scratch.  They would be very simple, but I could do it.  Eventually.  

I don’t know of any hosted system that’s set up for this kind of thing.  I have an old WordPress account, but that’s a blogging model.  Ditto Dreamwidth.  

The other option, I suppose, would be to create a separate AO3 account and put everything else there.  I know about pseuds, but using a pseud lists everything in the same place, and the reasons I’ve kept some stuff off of AO3 means I don’t want to jumble everything together.  I’m not trying to conceal authorship - most of it’s on FF.net anyway - some of it’s just not very good.  Among other things.  

Probably there isn’t a good solution.  *bleah*  

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