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For those wondering about the site itself [message #66397]

Mon, 12 December 2011 00:20

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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iomfats.org is well funded from a stream of advertising revenue from several other sites that are wholly unlinked to this one. The server where we run is well run by the hosting company, and the monthly payment goes to them automatically on the first of each month.

I am retiring from the main site, too, in terms of the day to day running. Megaman is taking that on and will post the stories when they restart in the new year. The pause is to allow him to plan how he will do it. He will decide when to restart and what the posting schedule is to be. He has always been the guiding hand on technical matters and he has expressed himself willing to add the technical side of story posting to his role.

I will still read all submissions and make my eccentric choices of what makes the cut and what does not. I will simply email him with the ones I believe have a home here. The character will not change except that authors and stories evolve, thus the site evolves.

The site started in January 1997. I've run it for almost 15 years. Wow. http://iomfats.org/oddsandends/history/ tells you about it. That's a long time. Some of it was stressful. Most of it was fun. Some of it has been like a job. That part I didn't enjoy, the job part.

I believe we have much to be proud of. We have probably the largest collection of gay poetry anywhere. We took a look at Nifty and then ASSGM, and decided that gay people need to read about romance as well as sex, to learn and realise that we are allowed romantic love, not just a quick fuck. We were one of the first sites to do that.

[Updated on: Mon, 12 December 2011 00:23]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

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