Area 52 HKH

[i_want_2]

Does anyone know what happened to the website? I went looking for a Johnathan (clone Jack)/Daniel story and the entire website beyond the front page is gone. Does anyone have a copy of the archives? This happened to the Smallville SSA and Tom Paris Dorm, but they transferred those to AO3 eventually.

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[princessofgeeks]

I checked and am getting the same thing you are. YIKES. This is a major archive for the Gateverse. I don't have any info; hopefully something will turn up. *worries*

[discodiva76]

It's been like this for around a fortnight or so I think ....on the Spacemonkey Facebook page I've seen comments that they're tranferring Servers or something like that and are working on it...but I was expecting it to be sorted by now....


Another sign of the slow decline of the Stargate fandom I guess....

[princessofgeeks]

That's really good news, if they announced they are transferring servers. That can take awhile.

If they did an announcement like that, they won't disappear without a trace. Especially now that archives that can't support themselves any longer can be absorbed into the AO3. There are OPTIONS.

Thanks for the update; much appreciated.

[franzeska]

Hey, do you know who the mods/owners were? Maybe they'd consider importing it to AO3 now that it has been down for a couple of years and is clearly not coming back.

[1_mad_squirrel]

If all else fails, there's the Wayback Machine.

[i_want_2]

I tried that. It won't let you use anything that you don't have a direct link. The search engine is just a saved page.

area52

[highfructose_cs]

I've been having some luck with using the wayback machine to find stories. Some captures allow me to get an author list. I've found many of the ones I was looking for that way. If you would like any help let me know.

Reached out to A03

[stillrose]

I reached out to AO3 to see if they could help rescue Area 52. They said they had reached out to the mods about importing the archive, but didn't receive a response. Without they can't help. Does anyone know how to contact the mods of Area 52 to see if they'd be willing to work with A03? They've imported other archive sites. It would be a shame to lose the this library of fanfiction.

SR