No FictionAlley fanfic uploads on Friday or possibly Saturday

[heiditandy]

You'll all be thrilled to hear that FictionAlley is moving to our 
new ISP this weekend! This means that we should be through 
with "server busy" messages for good!

We'd like to thank the wonderful guys at dragon.com for their 
incredibly generous server donation - they've put together a 
wonderful package for us, and all FA has to do, going forward, is 
cover the bandwith costs, which we expect will be between $100 and 
$150 per month - of course, the money for those costs (and things 
like license fees and domain name registration) comes from donations 
from our users, and what we earn from our affiliations with Hot 
Topic ( http://www.qksrv.net/click-1468905-3751245 ), Amazon.com ( 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/fictionalley-20 ), 
Amazon.co.uk ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect-
home/fictionalley-21 ), the WB Shop ( http://www.qksrv.net/click-
1468905-10280328 ), Cafe Press ( 
http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=fashoppe ) and clicks on 
the GOOGLE ads you'll see on some fictionalley pages. We appreciate 
all your help. 

In the immediate future, what does the site move mean for you, other 
than the end of the Server Busy messages? 

It means that we're not uploading fics on Friday or Saturday (UK 
time), because that's about how long it's going to take for us to 
move the fic houses. 

It means that at some point in the next week, we are going to close 
FictionAlley Park to new posts, and new registrations, and we're 
going to close to new reviews and new art posts as well, as we move 
all the reviewboards, ArtisticAlley, and the Park. Instead, we're 
going to have moderated chatroom discussions for the duration, to 
help you weather the lull. 

You can take advantage of the pause in fic uploads and read a fic 
for The Unexpected Task at 
http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/forumdisplay.php?
s=&forumid=111 or spend some time in the Cookie Jar threads in 
FictionAlley Park at 
http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/forumdisplay.php
?forumid=80 - or spend a little extra time tweaking your own story 
before you upload it. 

Also - just so you know - one of the reasons we're doing the 
changeover now is because it's FictionAlley's third birthday. 
Take a look at what we looked like three years ago here: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20010801160819/http://www.fictionalley.org
/ - oh my, how we've grown!


Thanks for your patience!

Heidi for FictionAlley