Lunaescence

Lunaescence.com Fanfiction Archives was a multifandom archive focused mainly anime, manga, and gaming fanfiction and written works of Jinx&Jedi. Lunaescence is founded around 2003 based on eFiction Software. The site came into its own in response to Fanfiction.net's banning of adult content and the deletion of users posting it.
In 2019, it contained over 19,000 stories in total, and had around 3,500 authors. The largest category was anime and manga fanfiction, with over 11,400 stories as of January 2019.
==History==
Excerpt from the About Us page of the site, which explains where the name comes from and when it came about: 
==Rules==
Lunaescence was a moderated archive. Moderators screened stories for spelling and grammatical errors before allowing them to be posted, and had some content guidelines regarding real person fanfiction and adult/minor content.
The rules have changed very little over the years of the site's activity, as can be seen in the pages archived at Wayback Machine.
==Maintenance==
On July 23, 2003, the archivist Sally Knight left a notice on the fics page of the site where he informed who lost one of the works after moving the site's content. "Happy Birthday, Hisahsi" by Aikyo was even saved to a notepad, which was closed, prompting Sally to ask other users to give her a copy of the work. It is not known if this type of problem was recurrent, or if it was an isolated case.
==Server Fundraiser==
In 2016, Lunaescence attempted a fundraiser on GoFundMe This fundraiser does not appear to have ever reached its goal, which was to purchase a dedicated server for the site, to reduce costs and increase the site's longevity.
==Site Relaunch and Subsequent Disappearance==
In 2019, Lunaescence made plans of a full site relaunch with new code. This revamp was announced sometime between January 6th and May 3rd, based on dates of site announcements. 
Further announcements suggest a limited Beta test for the new site was open to some users sometime between late 2019 and January 14th 2020.
Site functionality seems to have continued as normal until sometime between December 2nd 2020 and January 21 2021, by which point the site had been replaced by a single homepage with a countdown for the new site's unveiling, presumably on February 14th.
On February 19th, the official moderator twitter account @LunaescenceMods posted an announcement on Twitlonger that, due to difficulties caused by inclement weather, they would be resetting the site unveiling countdown for March 2nd. The same day, the account tweeted a screenshot teasing Lunaescence's as-of-yet unrevealed new homepage.
On March 2nd, @LunaescenceMods tweeted that their admin would not be available for launch, and that they would have to "make adjustments". They followed this up with the promise to "keep everyone updated". On March 4th, the account replied to another user to apologize for the inconvenience, asking for "just [...] a bit more of your patience" and claiming an update would be posted later that day. The user @LunaescenceMods has not tweeted since.
As of March 2022, the site homepage has not changed, and all stories, authors, and other content remains inaccessible.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Multifandom Archives
Category:EFiction