Amor Yaoi

Amor Yaoi is one of the largest Spanish-exclusive multifandom websites for slash, yaoi, yuri and original fiction. In the past 19 years, the site has amassed 114,817 stories (at least 12,546 of those original fiction) and 113,333 members (29,958 of them "authors", or members with at least one published story). The page, whose fans have worried about a possible 2022 shutdown as its website sister Fanfic Es since it seemed to no longer be maintained, was put under maintenance by Marfil on 16/12/2022 and also changed server.
Categories and characters were manually added; and all the fandoms listed were trending popular back when the page was still being updated, like Loveless or GetBackers, making it feel dated. Some of the character names are mis-spelled and character lists are incomplete and obsolete, e.g. Namikaze Minato from Naruto is listed as yondamine, a mis-spelling of yondaime (四代, meaning Fourth) from a time when the character name wasn't yet revealed. Fans don't expect these mistakes to be fixed, or the fandoms list updated.
It used to have a sister site exclusively for Het stories, Fanfic Es, that was terminated early 2022.
In November 2023, it was posted on the News section by someone called "I", that the website would shut down the 4th of December (its 20th anniversary) unless people pledged 1282 dollars before that date.
== History ==
Amor Yaoi was created in November 4th, 2003 and started as a website where fans could read, download and share images like wallpapers and fanarts; manga and doujinshi like fanscalations and fantranslations; and fanfics. It also had a forum where fans could discuss various topics regarding yaoi, anime & manga and miscellaneous topics.
On 2006 the website was put "under construction". The first month the website was inaccessible, but later on the forum and fanfic sections were opened with their layouts changed and improved. The web was permanently transferred to a new domain (yaoi.es) in November of the same year; this new domain lasted shortly however, until November 3, 2008. This is what Marfil announced:
The amor-yaoi.com domain was once again the main one, with its layout changed.
Still, after all this time Amor Yaoi remains popular among Spanish-Speaking yaoi authors and readers. The Original Fiction section is one of the most popular nowadays; and fandoms that are still relevant, like Harry Potter, Naruto or Kpop get a significant amount of stories uploaded or updated.
== Controversies==
Both the site and Marfil have been criticized by users of the Spanish speaking community, with some of them posting on their profiles and blogs about their concerns about the state of conservation and security of the archive. 
Some of the criticism, of course, was directed not at the site itself, but at the behavior of some of its users at the time, writing quality (writing errors, typos and more), Marfil was not still active and answered fans' requests as well as enforcing the site's rules, but not always so punctually or concisely.
One of the biggest concerns regarding the site's security happened in mid-October 27, 2016 when after long problems with Amor Yaoi's hosting site, Marfil had to change providers. Several users have made long emergency backups of their posts and comments, for fear of losing their content afterwards.
Another of the concerns regarding the security of the site, was the possible protection flaws, which later resulted in its hacking, on December 2, 2016 by an Twitter user called @BannedExP_GoD. When entering the website a GIF of a moving eye was displayed along with the text (translate from Spanish): 
The news of Amor Yaoi being hacked spread fast and there was a mixed reaction and even a YouTube video explaing what was happening.
The Facebook page «Es de fanficsd» posted this (translated from Spanish):
Some reponses to this were negative:
On the other site, on Twitter there was some positive reactions, asking to stop insulting the hacker and keep calm:
The reason of the hacking was due to terrible security vulnerabilities on the site. The hacker claimed they were trying to contact Marfil, but that was hard to do since all the information that Marfil had on Amor Yaoi and FFes was false.
On December 4 Marfil appeared and created another database and restored temporary the site, but with the same problems. On December 5 Marfil closed the site herself and apparently contacted the hacker to resolve the security problems. On December 6 the site was online again with all the problems resolved.
===Other Reported Issues===
On December 13, 2017, an error occurred with the database and all the updates, stories and accounts made a day prior were lost and impossible to retrieve.
In 2019, the layout was changed again, this time preventing the users to change site skins and removing the Search tool, a thing that many fans were angry about; but Marfil stopped answering emails at that point. The last change she made was adding a reminder of the existence of Fanfic Es and deleting the two last announcements. To this day, after the shut-down of Fanfic Es, that reminder is still there on the Amor Yaoi home page.
Fans do not expect Marfil to appear anymore, since Marfil hasn't responded to any contact attempt.Comments section
===2022's possible shut-down===
Amor-Yaoi's domain expires in December 2022. Many fans are concerned Marfil will decide not to renew it and they'll only get a two weeks' notice, as happened with Fanfic Es. A few threads have been written on social media recommending people to backup their stories and favourites in case the worst happens come December.Concerned about Amoryaoi.com
Since the website was put under maintenance on 16/12/2022 and changed hosting serverMost recent admin post in the homepage the 2022 possible shut-down has been disproved.
Nonetheless, the unofficial AO3 Collection was started by fan Kaanbaltlak, entitled "Amor Yaoi Links" is still open for users who want to start adding/importing/cross-posting fanfics or bookmarks to AO3 from the website.
=== 2023 Data Loss ===
On May 29, 2023, following several days of web downtime, Marfil released a news update regarding the loss of web data from the past six months. They expressed regret for their inability to address the issue and acknowledged the impact it had on users. Marfil reassured Amor Yaoi users that they were taking immediate steps to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future, implementing necessary measures to safeguard data integrity and regain users trust.
Due to the database error and loss, another problem was generated: impossibility to post new fics and blank chapters. This problem, as the fan Kaanbaltlak described it:
==Archive rules==
In addition to the standard rules against plagiarism, etc, Amor Yaoi has the following rules:
*Unfinished fanfics that have not been updated for more than one year are deleted.
*Titles such as "Please read" or "Untitled", or titles containing symbols such as @#$~%^& are not allowed.
*Chatfics (SMS format) are not allowed.
*Stories that star actors/athletes (RPF) are not allowed.
*Stories showing any of the following in a positive light are not allowed: drugs, rape, abuse, pedophilia, or sexual abuse of minors.
*If the fanfic contains spoilers the author must let readers know.
*A disclaimer that the series/anime/book doesn't belong to the author is obligatory.
== See Also==
===References===
Category:Slash Archives
Category:Yaoi Archives
Category:Yuri Archives
Category:Spanish-Speaking Fandom
Category:2000s Archives