Audiofic Archive
| Name: | Audiofic |
| Date(s): | 2006-present |
| Archivist: | jinjurly |
| Founder: | jinjurly |
| Type: | Podfic Archive |
| Fandom: | Multifandom |
| URL: | http://audiofic.jinjurly.com |
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The Audiofic archive, a multi-fandom podfic archive, was created and is maintained by Jinjurly. All files are hosted with permission of the creators, and all archive entries include links to the original story text and include feedback links for both author and reader.
All files are available in mp3, for accessibility purposes, but may also be available in additional formats.
Audiofic archive maintainers actively solicit permission to host podfic in any fandom and of any length or story type. A few filks are also included, and a single podvid, Keylines, by Cupidsbow.
Site history
Audiofic originated in March 2006 as a set of mirrored podfic files kept in a webfolder.[1] The first podfic hosted was Rageprufrock's recording of her Stargate Atlantis story #435, The Atlantis Local Stitch'n'Bitch Chapter. Other SGA stories followed, read by Jaebi_lit and Hack_benjamin22.
On August 25, 2006, Audiofic debuted as an html page of links to all hosted files.[2] At that time[3], all recordings were of Stargate Atlantis stories.
In early June 2007, a second page was added to cover Due South and C6D fandoms[4]. The first reader archived outside of Stargate Atlantis was Slidellra[5]. In July, a third page was added, for non-Due South-related fandoms.
On August 22, 2007, Audiofic moved from those three list-form index pages to a Wordpress software installation at http://jinjurly.com/audio/.
Hard limits in the category capacity of Wordpress crippled site performance within only a few months, and the site collapsed in early April 2008. The breakdown was brought about by the first week of the Amplificathon challenge, a content drive for the archive with an aim of increasing diversity in fandom offerings. A series of temporary fixes were put into place, merging some categories and converting others into tags, but the site remained slow, and maintenance-oriented repairs could not keep pace with site growth.
In July 2008, Dodificus became the first Audiofic volunteer, helping to clean up archive entries as part of the run-up to the new platform. Other volunteers are Aphelant, Countess7, Pennyplainknits, and Winkingstar.
The threat of imminent site collapse prompted a move to Drupal software on September 5, 2008. At that time, the archive was moved to its own subdomain, http://audiofic.jinjurly.com. Currently work is focused on strengthening the category structure to support growth and enhance usability.
References
- ↑ Original mirror location: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~allisonl/stitchnbitch/
- ↑ Original url: http://jinjurly.com/audio.htm
- ↑ Internet Archive file of site from March 16, 2007 (Accessed September 30, 2008)
- ↑ Original url: http://jinjurly.com/audiomisc.htm
- ↑ Livejournal comment thread about page creation (Accessed September 30, 2008)
