Community Story Archival Project
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As many of you are aware, writing.com, once a valuable repository of creative content, has significantly declined in accessibility following the implementation of paywalls. Additionally, numerous exceptional stories are gradually disappearing from this platform and other similar sites.
In response to this issue, I have initiated an archival project to preserve some of these important works and content. I have developed an experimental archive page that serves as a testing ground for this preservation effort.
The archive is currently hosted at https://archive.possessionportal.com
I invite the community to:
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Explore the current archive and provide feedback on its functionality and design
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Submit suggestions for specific stories or content you believe should be preserved
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Share any technical recommendations or improvements for the archival system
Your input will be invaluable in developing this resource into a comprehensive preservation platform for at-risk creative content. I welcome all constructive feedback and story recommendations as we work together to safeguard these digital works for future accessibility.
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I guess it’s good to have two but is there anything wrong with the one hosted at:
http://107.189.28.249/#/I particularly like the interface of that one. It seems like it’s been a few months since they’ve updated it, so if you could get in contact with them and maybe create a second copy, that might be nice
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The code behind the scraper for that archive site is hosted here https://github.com/Ackater/writing.com-archival, if you look in the source for that hosted one you can see it reference a webserver that has the stories captured as json in folders (last scraped 6/1/2025)