I've been running a "Dark Forces II: I: Jedi Knight" fan site since early 1998.
Reply to "don't contribute to web forums". Linkrot is real, but a lot of the information sticks around
We've been in it so long that probably over 90% of our outbound links are at best broken or at worst lead to malware or pornography (of course I clean it up when I find it -- by removing the links and adding a note). And yet, stuff that people have been directly contributing to our site since 1998 is still available, still open, and freely available without creating an account