Ficlets is a non-commercial AOL community website dedicated to publishing and archiving ficlets, which are similar to flash fiction. It was founded on October 31, 2006 by Kevin Lawver, though it didn't become fully operational until early to mid-March 2007. On June 6, 2008, Lawver severed his employment from AOL and, in turn, departed as system administrator for Ficlets. No new administrator was announced to replace Lawver, leaving the respective duties for the site unmaintained.

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  • Ficlets is a non-commercial AOL community website dedicated to publishing and archiving ficlets, which are similar to flash fiction. It was founded on October 31, 2006 by Kevin Lawver, though it didn't become fully operational until early to mid-March 2007. On June 6, 2008, Lawver severed his employment from AOL and, in turn, departed as system administrator for Ficlets. No new administrator was announced to replace Lawver, leaving the respective duties for the site unmaintained. On December 2, 2008, it was announced on the People Connection Blog that Ficlets would permanently be closed as of January 15, 2009. On December 6, 2008, a banner was placed at the header of Ficlets pages that announced the closure of the site and a pop-up window was added to the main page that read “Ficlets is going away soon :(“. Lawver attempted to save the site to no avail, so he began a "Ficlets Graveyard" to archive all the ficlets written prior to the closing of the site. Lawver announced on 10 January 2009 that, with the help of Ficlets. com programmer Jason Garber and design team Viget Labs, a replacement site entitled Ficly. com would be launched. At the time of the announcement, the Ficly front page consisted of a logo, a statement of not being active yet, and a form to sign-up an e-mail address for notification of the official launch. Lawver stated that the Ficly. com team is "slowly making progress" in constructing the site, referencing the possible launch date as "maybe by ficlets' 2nd birthday at the beginning of March". All content on ficlets. com was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License and viewable to any patron of the site. Users who completed the free registration process could submit their own ficlets, host a draft of a ficlet in progress which was not viewable by others, maintain a user profile, comment on and rate other's stories, contact other users via private messages, and maintain a list of favorite ficlet authors and stories. There was also a Ficlets Blog wherein Lawver and science fiction author John Scalzi posted entries in an assortment of categories, including Book Tour Diaries, a Ficlets Spotlight, and Interviews with published authors. For registration, the site accepted OpenID and AOL/AIM screen names.
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  • Kevin Lawver
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  • Screenshot of Ficlets.com as of 15 December 2008
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  • 31 October 2006
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  • Ficlets is a non-commercial AOL community website dedicated to publishing and archiving ficlets, which are similar to flash fiction. It was founded on October 31, 2006 by Kevin Lawver, though it didn't become fully operational until early to mid-March 2007. On June 6, 2008, Lawver severed his employment from AOL and, in turn, departed as system administrator for Ficlets. No new administrator was announced to replace Lawver, leaving the respective duties for the site unmaintained.
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