4 Bookmarks by SLWalker
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How to Host a (Very) Popular Website for 30 Altairian Dollars a Day by james_ (AO3_Systems)
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom
01 Dec 2024
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For 15 years, the Archive of Our Own (AO3) has provided a safe haven for fanworks while refusing to implement paid accounts, sell user data, or restrict fans' creativity. We're completely donor-funded and volunteer-run and currently serve about 34 billion pages a year—using servers that we own in order to reduce the likelihood of de-platforming due to our commitment to creative freedom.
We know a thing or two about getting the most out of an Altairian dollar without compromising user privacy or free expression. Even if your project has different constraints, our approach might just help you stretch your project's budget.
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Bookmarked by SLWalker
02 Dec 2024
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Another fantastic write-up on AO3's (and somewhat otw-archive's) infrastructure.
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The Technical Architecture of the Archive of Our Own by zz9pzza
Fandoms: The Archive - Fandom
03 Aug 2017
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This is an introduction to the Archive of our own, a multi-fandom archive of over three million fanworks, used by several million people per day. This talk will be given at Nine Worlds 2017.
Bookmarked by SLWalker
20 Jul 2024
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AO3 sysadmin guru talks infrastructure. A good guy to listen to if you wanna run an archive on this software.
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The unfinished padawan, the unwanted apprentice.
Once they were both tools for greater powers, but now they are beholden to no one but themselves.
[An AU in which Maul saves Ahsoka after Mandalore, and with precious few options left open to them, they dissolve back into the criminal underworld to try to make sense of the universe again.]
Bookmarked by SLWalker
05 Sep 2021
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Fantastic. This is a story with a lot of heart, and some really deft psychological work. It left my heart squeezed in my chest several times, and there were a bunch more where I melted for the gentleness that was written well, but never trite or overpowering. Excellent stuff!