Offering

[zekkass.livejournal.com]

Hallo there!

I have two things.

1. I was wondering - since the Jooster Archives seem to be down, and have been for some time for me, could I offer something?

I am reasonably adept at organizing things, and I enjoy the work that comes along with putting together Master Posts that contain links and summaries of fic as well as author names and other information.

I understand that this would be quite the undertaking - seeing as there is a lot of J&W stuff on the web, and that there will be more in the future, but I would like to try.

So, in short: would any of you object if I attempted to put this together? Also, would anyone be willing to help?

2. I am remembering something from way back in the indeedsir archives, and I can't find it. This is greatly distressing, and if I could have your assistance, I would appreciate it.

The post was a discussion post, and in the comments there was a great string of comments about the idea of abusive!Jeeves. I mean abusive!Jeeves in the sense that he would injure/verbally abuse Bertie - not pleasant, but fascinating. I personally adore the idea of dark!Jeeves, and I'd love to read those again. (And, perhaps, fic? Who knows?)

So! If I could have your input, readers?

Comments

[random-c.livejournal.com]

Indeed, the hardest part with any archive is getting the fic in there. Making it a community effort makes it a lot easier. I took the alt.drwho.creative over from someone else, and was putting in up to 8 hours work a night on the thing and still couldn't keep up. I tried recruiting helpers to pre-sort the stuff so all I had to do was code it, but there was a limit to how much help they could be. Every fic had to be manually added to every page it was on. However, autogenerated tag-based sorts, with account-holding readers able to add new tags as well as the authors adding tags when they upload makes it all a lot easier.