Talk:Zines and the Internet

Sorry about that mess of a section on zines and money I added this morning, Greer. The edit function is acting totally impossible for me. My type runs off the edge of the screen and I can't see my mistakes, the edit button for the separate sections is gone, the print is huge, the images have disappeared in the edit mode. I sent an email to the address on the main page asking what was going on and if it was just me, or if it was bigger than that. --Mrs. Potato Head 18:58, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi, MPH! It's not just you -- but it's a very tricky bug to find. Could you tell me the wiki skin your using, your browser name and version and any extensions? --Awils1 05:12, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Things look normal again, so someone fixed something I guess! --Greer Watson 12:16, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Intro

I added some non-italic text introducing the quotes. Feel free to rephrase, but I think we need something there. There's an awful lot of quoted material, and my part is a reaction to the first type of attitude. I think that's clearer with a little more visual separation and introduction. Franzeska 13:37, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

I think this also needs a general introduction at the top. The article is rather long, and the subject matter is pretty varied. I'm not sure it should be broken into multiple articles, but a brief paragraph to supplement the table of contents would be helpful to someone looking at it for the first time. Franzeska 13:43, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

It certainly needs some cleaning up, reorganzing, and context. For me, it's been a work in progress and much more of a rough draft than other pages. --Mrs. Potato Head 14:29, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

I started by cutting down the section titles. They were cute, but the table of contents is way more readable if most titles can fit on a single line, and a long article like this one needs a readable TOC. Franzeska 14:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

This article was a really interesting read! I think it could benefit from an intro which disambiguates from modern zines which are usually advertised on Twitter though. When I opened this article, I thought it would cover current Art Zines and similar fandom zines, as well as 'zines' which are distributed soley digitally or primarily advertised digitally. Perhaps I thought it might delve into the zine process as it usually is for those -- with an interest check, a tumblr or twitter or carrd or all three with a curiouscat for qna, followed by contributor applications, and then a preorder phase hosed on big cartel / other sites they sell on. I heard about some people looking into the idea of releasing digital zines which you pay for to get print quality, but you can print them yourselves. I think reading this page, that content doesn't belong here, but I'm not really sure where else on fanlore they would go, since it is related to Zines and the Internet. Thoughts? Distracteddaydreamer (talk) 11:17, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

I was wondering if this page should be renamed to Print Zines and the Internet? Since from an initial read, it seems to be about the impact of the internet on the circulation and production of print zines and not online zines? (Hence the distinction between "zine fic" and "online fic") That may also help to clear up the ambiguity of the content/intro. I would also say, on a page with that title, the subject Distracteddaydreamer is talking about would still be relevant (in the sense that these are zines that are intended for print, even if they're printed at home). --enchantedsleeper (talk) 20:24, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

I support the name change. --MPH (talk) 20:38, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Print Zines and the Internet is a fine title, but I see this page used to be some sections on the History of Media Fanzines page, so that is why it is organized this way. I think it might be more readable and the context clearer if we split this into two pages: Print Zines and the Internet (general overview of past and present, links to other pages, includes current zine processes) and The Impact of the Internet on Print Media Fanzines (in-depth historical discussion about the effect of the internet on the existing media fandom print culture). Most (all?) of the current content would belong on The Impact of the Internet on Print Media Fanzines.--aethel (talk) 00:19, 7 September 2022 (UTC)