Debating Getting Out of Fanlistings

As I’ve started to putter around fixing up my fanlistings page, I’ve found that almost half of my links are broken, and of those broken fanlistings, many have been simply shut down and not restarted elsewhere. It’s going to be a lot of work to revamp it all, which has made me question the value of keeping a joined fanlistings page in the first place.

I never really got into fanlistings much, not like many of my compatriots in webdesign–I pretty much just hopped on the bandwagon because everyone else did. I don’t host any of my own anymore, and haven’t for years; my fanlistings page is a glorified page of links which I have to keep policing and relinking. But in a way I hate the thought of going through and removing my memberships from all those various sites, and I kinda like having a place to display my favorite things… I just don’t know if I want my list of favorite things to be completely dependent on other webdesigners’ choices to keep their sites alive or not.

I’m going to give this more thought…what do you think?

2 thoughts on “Debating Getting Out of Fanlistings”

  1. I don’t link fanlistings I join anymore for the same reason. Fanlistings are “dying,” and just don’t have longevity anymore. Urls change too often as fanlistings pass from hand to hand. :/ I can’t be bothered to update links that often, lol.

    1. Yep! It would just about be easier to have a single page with styled text lists showing all the things I fan over. That way I wouldn’t have to check links every week 😛

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