Rockman Elysium

Thanks to a nifty little site called LJBook that I discovered, I have been able to archive R_E from GJ!

The GJ version of the community has been archived as a PDF covering its creation mid-2007 to December of 07 (it didn't include the last couple of entries during January, sorry!) and includes comments in nested order.

You can download it here (2.2 mb). Try 'save link as' and let me know if you have problems.

A couple of notes: the archival process didn't capture the names of individual entry owners, unfortunately, nor did it capture user icons, but the comment stream generally makes it possible to figure who wrote what. While this isn't completely perfect, it's far better than nothing. Sorry for those who might have trouble using PDF- this was the handiest and most legible format I could think of for easy storage, portability and most importantly COHERENCY at the end-user level. My biggest concern was saving the conversations and comments in order, and this has done that.

I'll post up the link to the PDF in the sidebar shortly!

A related house-keeping note: Please be sure to give your community entries a full subject line. I notice some entries from the old comm had no subject, and this makes it even more difficult on an archival level to backtrack who wrote posts. Remember to use [subject] tags, post full titles of fanfics in the subject line with ratings and pairings if any, and also (new for 2008) to put your name and title at the start of any fanfic texts, like:

The Zeroth Law
by mystery_muse, Jan 2008.

If you do this, it'll make future archiving much cleaner and ensure that you don't get your work mistaken for someone else's. ;D

Welcome back fire_bolero as co-moderator!

Lastly, the comm's userinfo has been updated slightly to include additional links to significant fanon discussions. I'm sure I could backlink to more of them from GJ and may do so later. :D

Er, if Zero and Lumine don't destroy the poor comm before it even begins... then welcome to version two of Rockman Elysium!

We are up and running on Insanejournal as a paid account for an entire year which hopefully will ensure both ad-free and trouble-free maintenance. Your current mod is mystery_muse and co-mod fire_bolero will be reinstated as soon as she sees what's happened and gets an account here. For the moment we are a moderated-join and invite-only community. Some of you should have recently received invites if I knew of your existing IJ account. Others should ping mmxmuse on Yahoo! if you weren't invited and I'll get you hooked up.

The status of the archiving of the GJ community is a matter of high priority and I will do my best to try and get it done this weekend, so we don't lose the scads of conversation and commentary that we developed. Moving always sucks, and unpacking's even less fun.

Now that we're here, though, we can look forward to a new year and a new layout- as well as the upcoming launch of our sister community rp_elysium as previously discussed on GJ.

So! Let's get back to it! I'm going to ask that people use this post to tack up links to their fanfics that have been moved and rearchived- just reply to this post!

Mystery Muse's fic index: http://mystery-muse.insanejournal.com/5594.html
Blunderbuss's fic index: http://blunderbuss.insanejournal.com/3802.html