I was so happy when I saw the archive back. I went to the main site, then to the fics. ALL THERE. *happy dance*

You should go to the hurtfest and browse. There's yummy angst for everybody. ^^

Yeah, same here. I found them and changed the links and others saved. *nods* But I thought many would be lost to new readers and made me so sad. Good news!

So odd, it's showing fine for me all this time, even the main page, and every fic I've tried, all showing. Maybe it's a browser problem? :/ I hope it's fixed for you soon.

Yes, it would be such a loss to miss so much fic that is only archived there, specially the older stuff, which are classics, really.

I didn't know skyehawke existed until I followed capitu's rec links. It's quite a frustrating archive, I find, because it's so difficult to download anything to my kindle. They don't have the nifty 'entire work' option of AO3 and when I finally, chapter by chapter, transfer them all to my kindle, they all show up with the same title so I spend absolute ages opening every single one of them to see if it's chapter 2 or chapter 15...

By the way, is there a reason authors aren't transferring their archives to AO3? I know it took me ages to get around to it, partly fuelled by just not getting round to it and it's so bloody fiddly, partly by an initial reluctance and wariness (now completely overcome). But just wondering if there's a special loyalty to old archives or some other reason...? *curious*

As far as I know, there's nothing of the sort of loyalty to an archive. Some authors might feel more comfortable with one archive than other; that could be a reason.

What I think might be though, is that many of the fics at skyehawke are from authors who are not longer active in fandom, so they aren't as invested in their fics and maybe unwilling to go through the whole ordeal of moving all their stuff to a new home. Some authors have done so even though they have left fandom, and I truly appreciate it, because, like you, I just love the option of downloading the entire work to my e-reader. I love AO3, to be honest, and that's one of the many reasons. :)

But for other authors is a slow process. More and more people are loading their stuff there though. Almost all fests upload longer (and shorter) stories directly there, but, of course, there's the possibility that once in a while an author just doesn't like AO3 and decides to host their work someplace else.

Oh, over here in this post, the archive owner says that in the future there's going to be the option to download stories, if the author grants permission. Hopefully that will happen and many authors will be on board. :)

I am so glad that skyehawke is back -- I learned my lesson tho-- gonna start saving stuff --

I save everything! But nothing beats links on recs. :D

Woohoo for all the things! We should team up on the guessing poll next time and then we'll win for certain ;-)

DTH has been super-good so far. What an exciting fest! And I still have a couple of things to read at remix.

Loki being happy makes me happy. Oh, and you being happy as well, of course :D

First off, I just saw your new name! LOL I'M SO PROUD. XD

DTH is killing me, every single fic has been dreamy and awesome. I'm so glad I managed to catch up with remix and hurtfest, now I can refresh and refresh for new fics over there. lol

Next time we'll team up. We'll be the pollvengers. Or, you know, something cool. ^^

YAYAY for new name! I wasn't sure if / when you would see it? :DDD Is it when you get an email notification? I can't think of other times I see people's names?

I told Mr Birds you said I was a dirty girl, and he thinks it is hysterical. I am getting teased about it all the time now. :D

Yeah, when I saw the notification mail it was OH BIRDS, YOU DIRTY GIRL and I actually cried HEY! :D The bf came and was all 'what, what, woman!' :D

I see Mr Birds and I don't see eye to eye on this matter. Maybe he doesn't know you like I do. :D

Hee hee hee! That's exactly what I hoped would happen!

No, Mr Birds agrees with you totally. He says he's glad other people now know the truth (I keep quite a good girl image unless you know me very well, heh). You have to see what he did to one of the kids' books today... we have a book called Duck is Dirty, and, well... here you go. *shakes head*

AHHHH! So it's out there. :D

Let it be heard through of the lj land:

[the truth is out there!]

LOL

ahahaha

you big crazy loon

Oh god, you and Mr Birds must NEVER be allowed to meet :DD

It would be fun. We'd get t-shirts! ;)

oo m'god, draco tops harry. *fans self in anticipation*

You'll see! The fics are super! :D

I never go on skyhawke, b/c I am lame but I am glad it's back...all the freak out on LJ was starting to get to me, HAHA...

<3

Hugs to you.

*lol* It's just that there's a lot of older fanfic archived only there, you know? The idea of losing them was. . . >.< yeah. lol I'm glad we'll stop pestering you about it. *hug*

Maybe this is a sign that I should get into skyhawke before the scare happens again.

There's so many new fics popping out that I dont have time to read old ones...

OMG so many fics...why is RL always in the way?

LOL

Ohhhh! YES! That's the thing! I read the ones at Skyehawke before I actually found ALL THE FESTS in real time posting, so when I started reading H/D I started from, you know, the bottom. :D LOL

Yeah, silly RL always in the way. :X

I have only one thing to add to this conversation:



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:D:D:D:D *dies* I mean, this dude is going to kill me. :D

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I SEE LOKI. :D

This gif makes me happy in ma pants. :D