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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*
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*