Forum: Lost Stories

Linking to a story which is not on this site is a good way to get the thread deleted.

The story was written in 2016 and the girl is pre-adolescent.

My guess is the site which used to be mainstream but has dwindled into irrelevance because the pedo crowd took it over by updating their archives pretty much on a daily basis, rendering the "new story" search useless.

because the pedo crowd took it over by updating their archives pretty much on a daily basis

While I agree this happens, I don't think it was really a take-over in the way that you mean. Usenet pre-dates the web by several years. ASS originally hosted stories of all types and ASSTR is just a web archive of the usenet group.

Over time, most authors migrated to web sites, but some genres can't easily do that. It's not just pedo, but also rapecore, extreme bdsm, snuff, and some other genres. Not saying you can't publish this stuff on websites, just that it's trickier in many cases.

So it's not that the "pedo crowd" as you put it took over ASSTR, just that they're the ones who kept it active when everyone else left.

What rendered that site unusable to me - as a reader - was the Nifty Archives being uploaded on a three day cycle, several hundred stories (or chapters, each one counts) with ⅓ being loaded each day. The same thing happened with the LesLita Archive although I never bothered working out what their upload cycle was.

Before that I could check for "New Stories", but the noise / signal ratio there was so skewed that the check became tedious.

Imagine this site with 250 uploads every day, 245 of which had been uploaded a couple of days earlier and with codes which pretty much precluded any interest on my part. We have a mostly benevolent dictator here who absolutely would not tolerate that.

(occasionally something interesting slipped through, Sacwriter's "Becka the Beast" and "Munchkin" were in one of those archives).

At the same time, other authors got upset at sharing a platform with these stories and decamped to places like Lit, SOL or their own sites.

ASSTR is just a web archive of the usenet group

I know you think that but it is only part of the story, direct uploads were also possible. Do you really think the two archives I named above all got there via ASSM? Every three days?

Artie's site included pdf and epub versions of his stories along with the txt and html copies. dotB, Don Lockwood (under his other name), Dorsai, Stultus, Wiseguy, WTSman and Gina Marie Wylie were some of the many others who did the same (some posted doc or rtf files instead). Artie took his site down Jan/Feb 2012 for reasons which had nothing to do with those archives, and that was the day ASSTR ceased to be interesting to me except as an historical repository for a few authors.

If the Nifty and LesLita people had been interested in sharing, they could have implemented checks so as to avoid uploading stories / chapters which were already there and unchanged. Even checking the last-updated timestamp should have been sufficient.

It was one of the various ASSTR subsites, specifically Lasiter's. For the last several years the parent page has been unstable, going through periods of being down and up. It currently appears to be down, but if you search ASSTR on Google you should be able to find the mirror.

Not sure how stable it is, but you're usually better on the FTP than the website version. Once there, got to authors and find Lasiter. Note that there may be text corruption or weird characters that you'll have to edit out to make it readable. Many of these stories were originally posted in raw ASCII text and conversion to web is weird.

I won't post links for the reasons others have mentioned.

We aren't supposed to provide links to competing story sites in the forum.