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Damned-Colonial inspired this entry. hope gave me a useful amendment. melannen explains how journalfen accounts can be used as OpenIDs.

So, the reason I first got a domain was because I was going to host an X Files slash archive.

That ... never actually happened.

And, sometime last year, I was thinking that I would like to change my URL to be less about a fandom for which I haven't written a story since 2005, when I wrote an emergency remix when Victoria couldn't match anyone else to the X Files. Before that, I wrote three stories in 1999. Or possibly earlier. They're from before I wrote updates for my story page, anyway.

So, I bought the domain zvilikestv.net and I let it sit, because I was planning to reorganize my website when I could install the otw-archive software on my website.

That also hasn't happened yet, but, at least, this one is clearly not my fault.

However, tonight, I decided that it was finally time to delegate my OpenID to my own domain, and now slashx-files.com and zvilikestv.net point to the same files.

However, slashx-files.com is hardcoded into a lot of places on my website. (Fortunately, perl provides an easy search and replace method for getting rid of a lot of them, so that's not the worst part.)

The worst part is that I can't decide what it is, exactly, that I want to keep. Well, first things first. Clearly, as soon as Open Doors is set up to take collections, I'm getting rid of the Farscape/Archive. I am a horrible, terrible, awful archive maintainer. I'm not sure that it works in any fashion whatsoever, at the moment.

Just as clearly, I'll keep up all of the ficathons, although I may, when the otw-archive software is available for distribution, shove it all into that software, and use the world's longest .htaccess files to redirect as needed.

My fanfiction, likewise, is getting shoved into ao3 software. I may not set up detailed redirects for those ... I might just redirect it generally to the front page.

And so, I'm left to ponder: proto-Fastlane website, joke/religion from college, and slasher hanky code? Should they stay or should they go?

I guess I'm most concerned about incoming links, and my thought on that is, mostly, that anyone who really cares about what's there, can get it off archive.org ... I've never had a robots.txt file.

Actually, the slasher hanky code is funny, even if it never did catch on. And the proto-Fastlane website needs the recs URLs updated, but, other than that, it's still okay, I guess. Second result on google for 'fastlane slash'.

I probably will just delete the shox website. I'm not worried that anyone's linking to it; I just tried to search for it on google, and I got cyrillic and hebrew results without being able to bring up the slashx-files.com website, which I know is indexed, because it comes up when you search for my fannish stuff. Ah ha! Searching for 'shox witchqueen' pulls it up. Yeah, itsdeadjim.

So, I'll have to, yuck, download everything tomorrow, and then run the perl script I found on it. Not an insurmountable challenge. And, I guess, while I'm at it, I should go ahead and get the redirect file ready for when I can install the otw-archive software. Jeez, that's a metric ton of stories between remix and three ships, and then another buttload of what I've written.

Expect I won't get it done tomorrow.