As mentioned in the recent blog post, I must reluctantly announce that we'll be shutting this site down on Friday, May 4th, 2012. While a fine topic, progress here has been slow for some time now, and it simply does not appear that literature (in the general sense) has a strong enough following o...
Our sister site Literature Stack Exchange is shutting down on May 4th due to a lack of activity.
There is some overlap between the two sites: written SF is on-topic on both. So there are questions on Literature that could be migrated here and remain on the Internet.
What questions should we req...
@TML: I'm downloading the linked data right now to see if it contains our stuff. I'll let you know if I can find it in there.
@TML: the date on it is sort of wrong, as they haven't been listing each backup as it comes out. They put a new one up "quarterly", but the most recent is from December. Hopefully they'll have another from this month up there soon.
btw, I've cleared all the flags on the potential migrations to sci-fi since they've now been posted over on their meta. (Though if you spot any others you should definitely flag it.)
The blog post linked me to some data dump from September 2011 that says it contains "all public data in ... all public non-beta Stack Exchange Sites", but as Literature.SE never exited beta, it's not clear to me how we are supposed to get this data for ourselves; where the low amount of traffic w...
@TML Yeah, sorry for the confusion (cc @ladenedge). The data will go up on Area 51 after the site shuts down (in the same format as the normal data dumps).
It'll depend on how much work it takes to get data out of their dump format, I've got it downloading at home to take a look at later tonight.
It's just that I haven't ever really found SF&F to be a very nice place to be - probably because everything I ever wanted to talk about was not part of their charter, but it's still left me pretty turned off to the entire site.
You can see it already starting in the first comment on that Meta question: "We don't have much analysis on this site, and it usually devolves into a bunch of 'me too!' answers."
Just want different things, which is cool - that's why I wanted Literature :)
Since we're closing down for good, can we migrate all of the questions tagged fantasy and science-fiction to scifi.stackexchange.com?
There aren't many, just 41 questions in total.
We'll let them close the duplicates, I say, because they're the reason we're closing. ;)
In the interest of not repeating the same mistakes if another book- or literature-related site is proposed: why did Literature Stack Exchange fail? What should we learn from this? How can we avoid repeating the same mistakes?
I'm asking on Literature Meta where the people best placed to answer h...
Since we're closing down for good, can we migrate all of the questions tagged fantasy and science-fiction to scifi.stackexchange.com?
There aren't many, just 41 questions in total.
We'll let them close the duplicates, I say, because they're the reason we're closing. ;)
