These days i pretty much save everything to delicious, though i've still got a couple of thousand stories and links on my computer that i haven't gotten around to tagging yet.

Ugh, yes, this is so frustrating, isn't it? When everything's somewhere, but not precisely in the place(s) you want it to be, and fixing it to your liking is a non-trivial matter.

I picked save forever because i learned the hard way not to go around deleting stuff. Last time i got a new pc, i deleted a bunch of old fics on the grounds that i wasn't interested in those fandoms anymore, but then someone gave me the Highlander DVDs and i came down with a sudden urge to re-read all my old Richie/Methos favourites.

This happens to me all the time; I call them personal fandom renaissances. Perhaps one day you will come full circle to your original fanzine fandoms and you'll be glad you still have them! As for disappearing into the ether, it all comes back to that. The odds of anything that was on the internet ten years ago still being there today are so uncertain, and there's just no guarantee that anything on the internet today will be there tomorrow. And the story that disappears is always going to be the one you long to read the most.