Welcome to the Fandom History Rescue Project!

[duskpeterson]

Our goal is to save online fandom history that is at risk of being lost. Feel free to join our conversations.

Our current project at this comm is saving fandom history from LiveJournal.

Especially important posts here will be placed in the Memories. You can find more information about us at our Tumblr blog. Our Discord chatroom is also working on a project to save fandom history from Yahoo Groups.

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introductions: Introduce yourself (or re-introduce yourself, if you've been away for a while), so that we can say hi! Feel free to ask questions about our project.

livejournal: Posts everyone in our community might be interested in reading, concerning our goals and our work on our LiveJournal project. Ask questions, offer ideas, and share with us stuff that we need to know to do our work here.

chitchat: Posts that not everyone will necessarily want to read, such as personal progress reports, ventings, and fic recs. (Well, okay, everyone might want to read the fics.)

news: Links to related news stories, big events happening at similar projects, and so on.

tools: Links to tools to preserve fandom history.

This tag is reserved for the moderators:

moderator announcements.

8tracks is shutting down on December 31

[duskpeterson]

According to the Organization of Transformative Works:

Popular fanmix and fan soundtrack website 8tracks recently announced that it will be shutting down on December 31, 2019. While the site might be available after this date, there’s no guarantee it will stay up - so if you’re a fanmix or fan soundtrack creator (or have created any type of playlist on 8tracks), now is a very good time to save the data from your playlists or make them available on another site.

These Tumblr posts offer detailed information from OTW and from our Tumblr blog on how to save playlists.

One of our members is helping with the race to save fandom-related 8tracks playlists. Our Tumblr post ends by saying, "If you need help saving a lot of playlists, email the list of URLs to admin@vidders.net Please put the word 8Tracks in your subject line."