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[Erise]

Guest Mod's Note: Merging this with related topics:
Portkey.org beginnings
Why the four ships here? Why H/H, D/G, R/LL, L/J?
Who's the first PK author?
Portkey.org history as written by Nicole, one of PK's first moderators

~Pen/gal-texter


I'm sorry, but is there any page that lists the sites that Portkey hosts? (eg. the HMS Harmony page at harmony.portkey.org)

I've tried looking for it but to no avail, I have no idea if it actually exists or if I'm turning blind.

Need more new H/Hr sites to satisfy H/Hr cravings, you see.

[Erise]

Guest Mod's Note: Merging this with related topics:
Portkey.org beginnings
Why the four ships here? Why H/H, D/G, R/LL, L/J?
Who's the first PK author?
Portkey.org history as written by Nicole, one of PK's first moderators

~Pen/gal-texter


I'm sorry, but is there any page that lists the sites that Portkey hosts? (eg. the HMS Harmony page at harmony.portkey.org)

I've tried looking for it but to no avail, I have no idea if it actually exists or if I'm turning blind.

Need more new H/Hr sites to satisfy H/Hr cravings, you see.

[PhoenixWriter]

HMS. Harmony

Thats the link I hope this helps

[NAPPA]

here are the list off the top of my head ^.^

http://aparecium.portkey.org (Fanart & fiction by Kaori)
http://quillsnspills.portkey.org (Gwendy's Fanarts)
http://ppmt.portkey.org (Pumpkin Pie & Mai Ti's resources. Not sure if it's up yet.)
http://harmony.portkey.org (Essays and Opinion Columns of H/Hr shippers)

There used to be some others, but we seemed to have misplaced thm, and the authors have not email us back.

NAPPA

[Erise]

Mmm thanks both of ya. Suggestion then? Compile the list of pages hosted by Portkey =)

[Quis]

I remember an back a few months ago there was a link on the mainsite which let us read about all the different attempts you made to create Portkey. I remember reading about (and visiting) the original "Kindred Spirits" and the "Septanic" sites. You also had the old link images from each of them.

Maybe it's still up but I can't find it in any of he places where it should be. If not I think you should add the site's history. I think there were 5 or more earlier tries and you could include 1 or 2 of the earlier formats for portkey.org. I found it really interesting and I'd like more people to be able to read it.

-Quis

[NAPPA]

James apparently saves everything like a pack rat. I'm hoping he has it. I'm sure I can find the images and things if I looked. No gurantees though. I have about 200 Gb's of files. Some so enumerous, I don't know where the hell they are ^.^

I will look into it though

NAPPA

[NAPPA]

I was studying Bachelors of Computing Systems. I got into fanfiction and all that, and became part of the H/Hr community. There is stuff before that, but nothing that relates to Portkey. I started making my own webpage -- learning to to make them using tools like -- Front Page 97 and Paint Shop Pro 5. Wild days! I didn't learn more than the basics.

The first Version of the site was called " Kindred Spirits " . It was hosted on tripod.com. It had only my own stuff on it. It was actually just one page. It listed my fic Septanic Dueling and all it's chapters. That was it.

I met James a bit before that, and we became fast friends. He told me that he wanted to make a site like fanfiction.net. At first I thought he was nuts. I was really mystified with the fanfiction.net system. I was sure that you need to have a programming degree to be able to do that. I kind of laughed him off. Though I didn't tell him that exactly.

James finally made a site that was kind of like that. http://loveofloyalty.tk --- it was his attempt at reviving the H/Hr fic directory ( pumpkinpatch ). It didn't really launch well. Well it kind of did. We got some people posting their recommendations, but nothing really went anywhere. ( Original Crew - HarryNZ (Carl from pp.org) and James ( Our James ). Anyone could post a link that was H/Hr. Mods (me and James and Carl) would approve them.

I made some graphics for this site -- modifying images of the Love Hina (Anime) series. Including what will be known as my trademark -- mistakes in spelling of the name of the site.

We had a small forum too. It was a PHPBB forum. I think we got about 30 posts in there, before closed it down. The site sort of died -- in the mean time James picked up more skills, and wanted to actually write up a system like fanfiction.net . A full blown fanfiction hosting site.

At this time I started to pick up my webdesign hobby again, and I asked him to write up a system host 13 authors. I'm going to try to name them now.

James
HarryNZ
Heaven

Ryoko
Chocchip
Me

Chris ( Veritaserum )
Shades of Grey
Brian Yoon

Max Lonewolf

I think there were more planned, but I can't recall them off the top of my head now. ^.^ Basically, all the people online that I was "tight" with. It wasn't ever supposed to host more than those people. IT was kind of going to be a yahoo group kind of a site. We wanted a backup system since we were hosted primarily on ff.net .

My wife bought me the domain name Septanic.co.uk -- I didn't really like the name. She picked it out because I talked and annoyed her lots about the fics ideas. So she I suppose thought I would like this. She's normally not the person to find the best internet deals -- but she did find it at that time. I still own that name.

Anyway... We made the first version of the site, but it was more than H/Hr site. IT was to also host JAG and Anime related fanfiction ( by Ryoko ) fanfiction. And SmallVille. I was really into that series then ^.^ I was planning to write a Harryeque Smallville fic.

We ended up scrapping that design. I think it happened shortly before the 19th of September. Becuase I remember uploading a message a few days later that linked to Nacey's Hermione's birthday ficlet. *schnoogles Nacey*

I scrapped the entire site and went to a new webhosting company . They gave free domain names with their first month. And I thought, cool! And thus was born, portkey.org

Between the last two stages, Quis came onto the site.

We got hacked a few days later. Not US, the webhosting company :'( We lost EVERYTHING. It took a while before we got our content back again. While kind of sucked!

We moved off. We got hacked again. And aftera few false starts we found this really good host. Very stable. And we started to get some visitors. We were accepting any and all H/Hr or L/J fic at that stage.




*feeling drowsy* I will post the rest tomorrow. Along with it some images. ^.^

[Quis]

*applaudes* Yay! I love stories! Love of Loyalty... that's that site was called! I started going there around the time the site supposedly died. I think there was one post after I started visiting there. It's funny cause Nappa's been the one constant in my shipping career. First heard of him from Ryoko over at ff.net and then every site I went to I found him or people talking about him and James (MythX, etc.). It makes me miss shoutboxes but I like forums better now.

Anyways, as soon as our storyteller wakes up and finishes, hopefully finding those pictures he mentioned, I'll see what I can do about pinning this topic as a whole somewhere.

[PhoenixWriter]

This sounds after a real adventure. Just if I think about It I'm not even able to create my own site...mhm I'm kinda stupid in such things...and you guys did create such a site. I mean thats really hard work and gos pretty well on your nervs if you lose everything. I take it that you started portkey or the idea to that in year 2002. Now well one year later there are 3000 members and nearlly 800 storys thats amazingly.

The first time I did visit portkey that was so around March or April 2003. It has to be March or even February. I was a long time something like a lurker before I was brave enough to post something.

Anyway I like such storys just to see how all this did start. You know what this is, don't you? Its magic, pure magic what did happen.

[MissMoral]

MOD NOTE: Merging this with a related thread. ~Pen/gal-texter

Why the four ships here?
Why h/hr, d/g,r/ll, j/l?

This question probably sounds really stupid, but I have always wanted to ask ever since I joined here.

We see sites of HP ships everywhere. Unless it's a general site like FictionAlley.org, it usually ships one ship. Sometimes they have h/g and r/hr joined, but that's really a seperate ship since there is such a thing as the OBHWF. As far as I know, there are no other major sites that have more than two ships in one place.

Then here comes Portkey.org with, not one, but FOUR ships together. It's probably evident that h/hr is the most shipped ship here because of the statistics, but it's undeniable that there are three other ships in this site.

Unlike OBHWF's two ships, the ships of Portkey are not really related apart from the parent relationship between Harry, James and Lily. (e.g. Ron and Ginny are brother and sister)

Why then, did Portkey decide to put them together? It makes sense to me, because I ship all of them. But not everyone ships them at the same time. Some might go for n/g and h/hr. And since there's no real bound between H/Hr and D/G like H/G and R/Hr, why put them together at all? Why not H/Hr, N/G and R/PP?

Also, I'd like to know if all ships were here right from the start. I know for a fact that R/LL had been added recently as there were no such person as Luna before OoTP came out. If they wren't all here the day this site had been opened, what chronological order had they been added?

I'm probably talking nonsense here. I mean, what's the point asking when the question can be easily dismissed as the liking of our admines James, Nappa and Heaven? I'm just curious, because I've never seen a site combined of four different ships before. If H/G and R/Hr combined has it's own name, shouldn't our Portkey ships combined together have a name too? (How about "The Portkey"?)

This post has been edited by gal-texter: Sep 19 2004, 01:59 AM