Fanfic Es
| Archive | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Fanfic Es |
| Date(s): | 2007 - March 2022 |
| Archivist: | Marfil (2007-2022) Bitelchux (2022+) |
| Founder: | Marfil |
| Type: | het and gen |
| Fandom: | Pan-fandom, Original fiction |
| URL: | https://www.fanfic.es/ (Old website by Marfil, archive link) https://www.fanfic.es/ (New website by Bitelchux) |
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Fanfic Es was a Spanish-language archive for het and gen fanfic. It was created in 2007, in response to users of Amor Yaoi who wanted to post het and gen content.
Site History
At first it also had a tagboard at the bottom where users could chat, recommend stories or roleplay. Said tagboard only lasted a few months and was removed by Marfil after it was repeatedly misused.[1] One image per story was allowed at first, but to save bandwidth, at some point they were all deleted and this feature removed. The website frequently suffered crashes that lasted several days and Marfil changed servers on several occasions in order to give it stability.
The page was divided into several sections: Anime and Manga, Comics, Cartoon, Literature, Film, TV Series, Videogames and Original Stories. Initially, it hosted fanfics of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but due to a lawsuit filed by the author, these stories were removed and new stories were banned from being posted from that moment onward.[2]
In 2012, anonymous comments were enabled on an experimental basis, to decide whether to implement them permanently or not.[3] The decision was reversed in 2015, after a group of users from the forum "Los Malos Fics y Sus Autores" (Badfics and their authors) used it as a tool to circumvent their ban. Marfil banned Malosfics users on the premise that their reviews weren't constructive criticism but rather malicious and humiliating flames directed at the authors.[4][5]
In 2016 the page changed servers for the last time and fell on administrative abandonment by Marfil. None of the support tickets were answered from that moment onwards and until the page was closed. Nor were stories or reviews that broke the rules deleted again. The new web design was criticized by users for finding it dark, bland and using comic sans.
Content
Archive Rules
In addition to the usual rules against plagiarism, etc, Fanfic Es has the following rules:
- Unfinished fanfics that have not been updated for more than one year are deleted.
- Titles such as "Please read" or "Untitled", or titles containing symbols such as @#$~%^& are not allowed.
- Chatfics (SMS format) are not allowed.
- Stories showing any of the following in a positive light are not allowed: drugs, rape, abuse, pedophilia, or sexual abuse of minors.
Fanfic.es's Closure
The website closed on March 22th 2022. After years of neglect, a new post was posted on the website's blog by Marfil on March 16th 2022. A translation of the blog post:
FANFIC.ES WEBSITE WILL CLOSE ON MARCH 22, 2022The Fanfic.es website will stop working permanently as of March 22, 2022.
All data will be deleted and cannot be recovered.[6]
At the time of its closure, fanfic.es had 19723 stories stored written by 8540 authors.
Because they're run by the same person, fans fear that the same thing will happen soon to Amor Yaoi.
Some fans have made efforts to rescue the stories but because of the short notice, not all fanfics could be saved.. There is a backup of the stories made by Klauhunlove Maledicere, and a project to save waybacked stories into an AO3 collection of external bookmarks by olderthannetfic aka. franzeska.
Fan Reactions to the closure
[Chubby Cat]
I'm crying because Fanfic.es is closing.It doesn't affect me as a creator but it does affect me as a reader, because there were a couple of my favorite fanfics there[7]
[Dami]
It is known that now everything is on wattpad and ao3, but the support of some stories is necessary considering that authors left their accounts abandoned.Fuente fb: Es de Fanfics
Well http://Fanfic.es is already dead, two minutes of silence for the page of the last resource to read crack ships.[9]
That's where I started my readings, it was the first app of this type that I knew... ❤ there I found great writers that I now admire more... the nostalgia... they will always remain in my heart...[citation needed]
[kaanbaltlak to franzeska]
Aaaaand fanfic.es is officially gone. The web is still there, yeah, but you can't see nor access anything besides the "This website is closed, in the following days it'll disappear". Thank you Marfil for putting that sweet note /s.Anyway I wanted to say thank you to you and all the people that joined to archive this small but awesome piece of the Spanish fandom!! It sure lasted some considerable years. Specially thanking because the people I saw crying over this web going down did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all (except saving their faves and such, but besides that? Archiving?? What's that???).
Hoping that Amor Yaoi won't be treated by Marfil with that fucking uninterest, but I think I'm asking too much. I'm feeling that AY will meet the same future as FFes in a couple of years. Maybe I should create the Collection and all of that soon, just in case.[10]
Fanfic Es Comeback
Since the page closed, a backup has been restored and archived at the old url, not by Marfil but by Bitelchux, a former user of the website. However, the organization of the page makes it difficult to sort through the stories due to the current lack of tags and a search engine. The top categories only have the top 20 stories from each category, with images randomly selected from the internet as fic covers (or so it seems to be, since the original fanfic.es page contained no covers and some of the images are from random unrelated celebrities or uncredited fanarts from the wrong series). The rest of the fanfics must be manually browsed through the hundreds of pages at the bottom. This new version of the page does not allow signups at the moment, nor posting new stories or updating or commenting on existing ones.
(Translated from Spanish) Hello, I am the new administrator of fanfic.es, as a former user I followed it for years but its continuous crashes and data loss annoyed me, so I decided to rescue the website once it was deleted and turn this website into what it should have been, the Reference website for fanfics in Spanish.When recovering the web once deleted, a lot of information and stories have been lost, I will recover what I can, also we are working so that you can add stories as before.
We ask for a little patience since all this will take time, for any questions or suggestions please send me an email and thank you for your understanding and patience.Bitelchux
A small introduction has been added to the main page, with videos and texts that explain what a fanfic is and a brief history of fanfiction.
See also
| Related Concepts, Fandoms, Terms, Fanworks | |
| See also | SlasHeaven, Amor Yaoi, Potterfics, Paraíso Fanfiction |
References
- ^ News Section 25/02/2008 04:05
- ^ News Section 05/08/2008 14:47
- ^ News Section 12/06/2012 11:00
- ^ News Section 16/10/2015 11:50
- ^ Post by Deirdre in the Malosfics forum where they document the mail exchange between Marfil and Malosfics regarding the deletion of reviews coming from Malosfics users.
- ^ fanfic.es
- ^ Chubby Cat (2022-03-21). ""Lloro por que cierra Fanfic.es…". Twitter (in español). Archived from the original on 2022-10-13.
- ^ https://twitter.com/usudamit/status/1506775068034179075 Dami
- ^ https://twitter.com/TanitbenNajash/status/1506749439859478540
- ^ kaanbaltlak ask to franzeska (2022-03-22). "Older Than Netfic – Aaaaand fanfic.es is officially gone. The web is.…". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 2022-10-13.