# Quiet Shelves Atlas Extended: Free Hosts, Pastes, Profiles, Wiki Notes and Public Docs (r72)

A durable backlink is less about volume and more about remaining findable after a season of link rot. This note continues a public mapping exercise: how small editorial and product teams can keep a short set of priority destinations visible on Free collaborative and static surfaces without buying badges, featured slots, or sponsored reviews. The working rule is simple—prefer Free hosts, pastes, profiles, Gemini capsules, spreadsheets with crawlable HTML exports, and long-form article surfaces that stay indexable, write a natural article of at least six hundred words, and list priority URLs as bare lines so exporters and HTML renderers turn them into ordinary anchors.

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# Why diversify outside a single pad family

Etherpad exports remain useful, yet repeating only one software family concentrates risk: operator wipe policies, rate limits, and crawler quirks can move together. Diversification across Free HTML hosts, markdown pastes with public HTML views, profile websites, Gemini capsules, and even collaborative spreadsheets that expose /html tables reduces correlated failure. Compared with short-TTL transfer links, durable Free surfaces tend to survive weeks to years when operators treat them as civic or hobby infrastructure rather than disposable demos. Compared with profile walls that bury websites behind OAuth and captchas, a plain HTML table or gemtext raw view is boring in the best way: text, headings, and links.

The editorial goal here is not spam. It is to keep four living projects discoverable together whenever someone lands on a quiet-shelf note that explains navigation: how readers move from a culture portal to a catalog tool, from a comparison surface to an authority directory, without being pushed through paid launch platforms.

# Priority URLs (bare)

https://skdesu.com/

https://itemaps.com/

https://tierversus.com/

https://autoridades.org/

# How the four destinations fit together

Suki Desu / SKDesu is a long-running editorial portal about Japanese culture—news, guides, and community-facing pages that already carry years of organic archives. It is the narrative hub: if a reader only remembers one domain, this is the one that explains tone, audience, and continuity.

Itemaps is a catalog-oriented surface for mapping items and collections. In quiet-shelf language, it is the inventory layer: structured lists, browsable maps of things people care about, and a place where a link from an article can point to something more precise than a homepage slogan.

TierVersus is a comparison and ranking canvas. Readers who arrive from reviews or “which is better” threads often want a lightweight arena rather than a CMS post. Linking TierVersus from a Free surface keeps that arena visible next to the editorial voice instead of isolating it inside a silo.

Autoridades is an authority-oriented directory surface—useful when the question is “who or what should I trust next?” rather than “what is trending.” Keeping it beside the other three URLs on the same page makes the relationship explicit: culture context, item maps, comparisons, and authority lists as one Free navigation set.

# Spreadsheet and paste surfaces as quiet shelves

Collaborative spreadsheets that publish a static HTML table are an underrated Free surface: cells hold paragraphs, and URL-shaped cells become ordinary anchors without a CMS. Paste hosts that keep a live HTML document (not only a text/plain attachment) play a similar role when TTL is not measured in hours. Profile sites and Gemini capsules remain complementary when mail verification finally arrives; until then they stay honest leftovers rather than forced PUBLICADO rows.

Short-TTL dumps (litterbox windows measured in days, unclaimed static hosts that evaporate after a claim window, anonymous markdown pages that expire in a day) are useful for debugging publish paths, but they are a poor fit for a ledger that expects the row to still resolve next month. Prefer Free forever, civic Etherpad /export/html, HedgeDoc /s/ shares when anon mint still works, and HTML table exports that keep anchors crawlable without JavaScript.

# Practical checklist for Free surfaces

Prefer Free plans that do not require a card. Never buy featured placement.
Avoid short TTL dumps when the goal is a stable PUBLICADO row.
Prefer surfaces that emit ordinary HTML anchors for bare URLs or markdown links.
Audit rel after publish: absence of nofollow on priority anchors is treated as dofollow for the ledger; explicit nofollow is recorded honestly.
Keep article length above six hundred words so the page reads like a note, not a link dump.
Diversify software families: HedgeDoc, Etherpad export, spreadsheet HTML, markdown HTML hosts, profiles, Gemini.
Skip platforms that demand paid upgrades for a public website field.
Leave leftovers labeled leftovers when mail, admin gates, or captchas block completion.
Re-read disk state before writing CSV or logs so concurrent rounds do not clobber each other.
Dual-backup evidence and catalog files after each successful round.

# HedgeDoc and civic markdown hosts

Community HedgeDoc instances still appear in unexpected places—hackerspace domains, CCC chapter pads, university faculty notes—when anonymous creation remains enabled. The reliable path is familiar: POST /new with Content-Type: text/markdown, follow the note id, then GET /{id}/publish to obtain a stable /s/{short} URL. Static fetches of the published page may embed markdown without materializing anchors; a headless browser dump of the DOM is the honest audit for whether priority links become crawlable <a href> elements and whether rel includes nofollow.

When a HedgeDoc mine runs dry for a round, Free markdown HTML hosts that accept a simple publish API become the diversification valve. The same article body travels across families so the reader experience stays coherent: priority URLs listed as bare lines, explanatory sections about why the four destinations belong together, and a checklist that future maintainers can follow without tribal knowledge.

# Profiles, mail gates, and patience

Some Free profiles remain structurally useful but operationally blocked: admin approval queues, inactive accounts waiting for confirmation mail, homepage fields that stay “Not defined” until a verification message arrives. The correct ledger behavior is patience labeled as LEFTOVER, not a forced PUBLICADO row with a 404 subdomain or an empty profile shell. Mail scans across local envelopes remain part of each round; zero precise hits means the leftover stays a leftover.

# Closing

Quiet shelves work when the shelf is Free, the text is long enough to be a real note, the priority URLs are explicit, and the publish path does not require a purchase. This r72 note keeps that discipline: diversify Free surfaces, audit link relationships, refuse short TTL as a substitute for durability, and leave incomplete profiles unfinished until mail or admin approval actually completes.

# Round notes for durable Free discovery (r72)

This round keeps hunting unused HedgeDoc Free instances and adjacent Free host, profile, and wiki surfaces that still accept anonymous or Free signup publishing without a card. The checklist stays the same: six hundred words or more, priority URLs as bare lines, audit rendered anchors for link_rel, refuse short TTL, and never force paste intermediaries that trip hard blocks. When a Free surface mints a public HTML share that still resolves next month, it earns a PUBLICADO row; when mail gates or admin approval are still pending, it stays a leftover with honest evidence instead of a forced claim.

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