Palelyloitering (and alone...?) - future of a Pros website...
Sunday, 17 January 2016 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightI need to decide the future of my Pros website, Palelyloitering, because I've not been able to update it for a while now, and it's very incomplete, and while I'd actually like to keep working on it, even sporadically, it seems a bit more complex to arrange since I was last able to do it.
So, when I first found Pros there wasn't an online listing of Pros zines etc., and because I was trying to be organised and remember things, and find out things, and had been disappointed by the first few zines I'd bought in such huge excitement and wished there'd been more reviews around, I decided to have a go at making one. A very kind Pros fan with a huge zine collection helped me gather information, and eventually there was Palelyloitering. I realised as I was doing it that actually it wasn't just zines that I wanted to keep track of, and also that I'd inadvertently been copying the style of information used by the other Pros comms (cos I thought that was just how you did it/the way people wanted to see stuff!), so I eventually restructured to include lists of fic and authors where ever they were, and then storylists based on themes, and reviews and all - all of which was a huge job, and very slowly done, because I was the only person who could access the site to add stuff, and it's never been even close to complete. But I do find it useful myself, to look things up that are half-forgotten, and because I can search the site folders on my computer (though not the website, sadly, cos that always seemed to be beyond html when I looked into it).
Anyway - updating got even more sporadic when I got caught up in various real life/job things, and when I lost my old version of Dreamweaver and couldn't find an affordable replacement. Now that I'm a bit more settled again, I went to see what could be done about updating it, and whether there was any better software out there (even the replacement I found years ago has vanished from my laptop - how did that happen (the separate FTP programme is still there - argh!). Thing is, from my brief glance, most website software seems to be of the - whatsitcalled, Web 2.0? - Wordpress etc. type. Which is fine, but I'm not entirely sure how slash-friendly they'd be (although theoretically I suppose there's no reason why not). It just seems, from descriptions such as Weebly software etc., that it'd be very different to what I got used to doing/controlling, simple as Palelyloitering is, as a website. So I'm not sure...
I can look into it of course - and it might turn out that I can still work with pages and upload them via Filezilla, but... I wonder if anyone other than me ever looks at Palelyloitering these days anyway, or would if they could? Cos if no one does, I could just use it as my own personal filing system on my computer. Fanlore pretty much nicked all my zine information to start off their Pros zine pages (they did credit at first, but it looks like this is being dropped as they add info from other places too), and of course there's the Hatstand's Zine pages now as well, and are there people who even care about zines any more anyway..? Which would be a shame if there wasn't, and doesn't mean the info shouldn't be out there anyway, but...
One alternative is that I move the site to an lj community instead, which would have the advantage that other people could help add information and look after it...
So - here's my questions... hmmn, maybe I'll add them in the form of a poll! *g* They're basically - do you ever use Palelyloitering, and would you care if it was gone?
[Poll #2033817]
So, when I first found Pros there wasn't an online listing of Pros zines etc., and because I was trying to be organised and remember things, and find out things, and had been disappointed by the first few zines I'd bought in such huge excitement and wished there'd been more reviews around, I decided to have a go at making one. A very kind Pros fan with a huge zine collection helped me gather information, and eventually there was Palelyloitering. I realised as I was doing it that actually it wasn't just zines that I wanted to keep track of, and also that I'd inadvertently been copying the style of information used by the other Pros comms (cos I thought that was just how you did it/the way people wanted to see stuff!), so I eventually restructured to include lists of fic and authors where ever they were, and then storylists based on themes, and reviews and all - all of which was a huge job, and very slowly done, because I was the only person who could access the site to add stuff, and it's never been even close to complete. But I do find it useful myself, to look things up that are half-forgotten, and because I can search the site folders on my computer (though not the website, sadly, cos that always seemed to be beyond html when I looked into it).
Anyway - updating got even more sporadic when I got caught up in various real life/job things, and when I lost my old version of Dreamweaver and couldn't find an affordable replacement. Now that I'm a bit more settled again, I went to see what could be done about updating it, and whether there was any better software out there (even the replacement I found years ago has vanished from my laptop - how did that happen (the separate FTP programme is still there - argh!). Thing is, from my brief glance, most website software seems to be of the - whatsitcalled, Web 2.0? - Wordpress etc. type. Which is fine, but I'm not entirely sure how slash-friendly they'd be (although theoretically I suppose there's no reason why not). It just seems, from descriptions such as Weebly software etc., that it'd be very different to what I got used to doing/controlling, simple as Palelyloitering is, as a website. So I'm not sure...
I can look into it of course - and it might turn out that I can still work with pages and upload them via Filezilla, but... I wonder if anyone other than me ever looks at Palelyloitering these days anyway, or would if they could? Cos if no one does, I could just use it as my own personal filing system on my computer. Fanlore pretty much nicked all my zine information to start off their Pros zine pages (they did credit at first, but it looks like this is being dropped as they add info from other places too), and of course there's the Hatstand's Zine pages now as well, and are there people who even care about zines any more anyway..? Which would be a shame if there wasn't, and doesn't mean the info shouldn't be out there anyway, but...
One alternative is that I move the site to an lj community instead, which would have the advantage that other people could help add information and look after it...
So - here's my questions... hmmn, maybe I'll add them in the form of a poll! *g* They're basically - do you ever use Palelyloitering, and would you care if it was gone?
[Poll #2033817]
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Date: Sunday, 17 January 2016 06:11 pm (UTC)I don't look up zines and haven't done in a while, can't afford any, but I think your database is of great value :)