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Post by orokiah on Apr 11, 2012 17:00:26 GMT
I've had DreamDangerously's Prophesies website/archive as one of my Favourities for years, and have visited it every couple of months. Sadly, it appears to have recently closed down. Oh, that's a shame. Another part of the Hex fandom gone.  |
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Post by fenris on Apr 12, 2012 14:39:30 GMT
Oh, that's a shame. Another part of the Hex fandom gone. The site hadn't been updated for some considerable time, but I still checked it periodically. It was up-and-running as normal when I last visited, two-three weeks ago, but when - on a sudden whim - I checked it earlier this week, it was gone. I visited the site address again yesterday (11/04/12), just to ensure it hadn't been a temporary hitch, but it appears to be permanently defunct. An observation: it seems old-fashioned fansites are becoming obsolete, due to the popularity of emerging new technologies and the (resulting) changing habits of internet users. These days, instead of going to the time & effort of creating dedicated fansites, fans of movies and TV shows just Tweet about them or set up Facebook pages. |
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Post by orokiah on Apr 17, 2012 18:58:46 GMT
An observation: it seems old-fashioned fansites are becoming obsolete, due to the popularity of emerging new technologies and the (resulting) changing habits of internet users. These days, instead of going to the time & effort of creating dedicated fansites, fans of movies and TV shows just Tweet about them or set up Facebook pages. That's very true. Fandom, when I started out in it, was mostly labour-of-love personal sites (Geocities was very popular at the time), with the odd message board here and there. |
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Post by fenris on Jun 20, 2012 15:51:03 GMT
Fandom, when I started out in it, was mostly labour-of-love personal sites (Geocities was very popular at the time), with the odd message board here and there. It's also sad (but probably inevitable) how many fansites either close down or have their domain names lapse as time goes on, presumably because their creators/owners either lose interest or no longer have enough time to maintain them, due to changing priorities and responsibilities (education, job, career, relationships, family life, etc). I have a couple of dozen fansites dedicated to old genre TV series amongst my Favourites, and over the last couple of years I've unfortunately seen some truly impressive, well-designed & informative sites about shows such as Dark Season, Century Falls, Kolchak: the Night Stalker, Urban Gothic, Werewolf, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Strange, and Crime Traveller (plus robgairey's Laura Pyper shrine) all vanish. |
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Post by orokiah on Jun 20, 2012 19:40:15 GMT
I have a couple of dozen fansites dedicated to old genre TV series amongst my Favourites, and over the last couple of years I've unfortunately seen some truly impressive, well-designed & informative sites about shows such as Dark Season, Century Falls, Kolchak: the Night Stalker, Urban Gothic, Werewolf, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Strange, and Crime Traveller (plus robgairey's Laura Pyper shrine) all vanish. Yep, know the feeling--there are so many things I wish I'd had the foresight to save, instead of just bookmarking them. Have you ever used the Internet Archive? It doesn't make up for the sites that have vanished, but it's one small way of preserving them. I've managed to dig up several long-gone gems that way; this board's former parent site Strange Thoughts, for instance. Sadly Prophesies seems to be gone forever. |
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Post by fenris on Jun 22, 2012 14:23:01 GMT
Have you ever used the Internet Archive? It doesn't make up for the sites that have vanished, but it's one small way of preserving them. I didn't know about the Internet Archive (film-maker John Carpenter once described himself as ' an analog person in a digital world' - I totally relate). Thanks orokiah, I'll check it out. |
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