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[heidi]

You'll all be thrilled to hear that FictionAlley is moving to our new ISP this weekend! This means that we should be through with "server busy" messages for good!

We'd like to thank the wonderful guys at dragon.com for their incredibly generous server donation - they've put together a wonderful package for us, and all FA has to do, going forward, is cover the bandwith costs, which we expect will be between $100 and $150 per month - of course, the money for those costs (and things like license fees and domain name registration) comes from donations from our users, and what we earn from our affiliations with Hot Topic, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, the WB Shop, Cafe Press  and clicks on the GOOGLE ads you'll see on some fictionalley pages. We appreciate all your help.

In the immediate future, what does the site move mean for you, other than the end of the Server Busy messages?

It means that we're not uploading fics on Friday or Saturday (UK time), because that's about how long it's going to take for us to move the fic houses.

It means that at some point in the next week, we are going to close FictionAlley Park to new posts, and new registrations, and we're going to close to new reviews and new art posts as well, as we move all the reviewboards, ArtisticAlley, and the Park. Instead, we're going to have moderated chatroom discussions for the duration, to help you weather the lull.

You can take advantage of the pause in fic uploads and read a fic for The Unexpected Task or spend some time in the Cookie Jar threads in FictionAlley Park at  - or spend a little extra time tweaking your own story before you upload it.

Also - just so you know - one of the reasons we're doing the changeover now is because it's FictionAlley's third birthday.
Take a look at what we looked like three years ago! Oh my, how we've grown!

Thanks for your patience!

Heidi for FictionAlley

Comments

[no-remorse.livejournal.com]

Do you know that you can still look at some of the old forums through the webarchive? It's kind of really, really interesting and strange for people like me who never saw the old board.

[luminousmarble.livejournal.com]

Ok to X-post?

[owlman.livejournal.com]

::nods::

[luminousmarble.livejournal.com]

Is that
::nods:: I have the same question
or
::nods:: I speak yes on behalf of heidi8
or
::nods:: Yes! Please post to the new journal with the cutesy name I suggested just the other day, plus any unrelated communities on your friends list?

(Will post up in my a.m.) ;)

[owlman.livejournal.com]

::nods:: I speak yes on behalf of FictionAlley

(though the last option is quite amusing ;) )

[mad-madrasi.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!! This is awesome!

[vlamidala.livejournal.com]

:D!

*goes back to her HTMLing ;)*

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

You got the email yesterday re setup?

[vlamidala.livejournal.com]

Yup! I'm really happy with how it's coming out. Gonna look into the dropdown menus now. :)