Decentralized hosting of some kind might be an answer to skirting the anonymity and potential legal issues, but probably not anytime soon. For text-only stories and discussion, a platform like postmill would be more appropriate than an image board.

I agree, and would be willing to help support a platform for discussion/preservation, so long as anonymity is possible.

One temporary option would be to have authors host their individual stories themselves on pastebin or similar with a password. Then on this site, the authors can post a thread with the link/pass along with the tags and teaser. And the discussion about the story can exist in the thread.

It's not perfect, but for now it could help with preserving the stories (maybe encrypting them too) along with allowing authors to edit them.

0bin dot net is a pastebin like site that only stores the encrypted version of the data. When you share a link it includes the decryption key.

According to their FAQs, the client-side encryption is not to secure the data, but to protect the host from liability for what the unencrypted data might be.

>>26468
OP here, that seems like an interesting concept though I'd like for things to be open like this board. If the password was lost it would be the end for that story - atleast for anyone new.

>>26469
With 0bin, the link to the story IS the decryption password, just like with MEGA. There's a fully developed implementation of it called privatebin dot info that has more features, like allowing the author to edit. These services have to be forked and hosted on a server, the sites are just for demo.

>>26476
Interesting, though still don't allow much in terms of browsing. I suppose it may be safer with more hidden content though.

On this sort of topic, does anyone have any hosting suggestions who aren't too picky in terms of content people decide to house?

A write-limited public git repo on Tor/I2P and/or a MediaWiki/DokuWiki site if you want to be fancy, could work.

For simplicity and safety, I recommend the closest thing to static-site you can.

There's simply no good-at-anonimity distributed platform that's really used right now and isn't broken (looking at you Freenet).

Taking a different approach to the problem...Could a postmill-like board be installed here under a subdomain given the technical and financial support is available to be donated?

Go grab an archiver like archive.md

Go take snaps of the stories at risk from disappearing (start at last page and work backwards).

Stick the links in a post/googledoc/pastebin

Done

>>26524
Seems unorganised and relies on no censorship. Plus no feedback routes?

Not a bad solution, just playing devils advocate.

It's a very interesting thought that I have no input on, but if there's any help to be done I'd be willing to chip in.

I came back here after a long time to revisit my own work that I never backed up and now it's gone for good. Obviously my own fault for not archiving it myself but..

Also I'm not even sure if that's my old tripcode but I think it was so...

>>26561
Which story was it?