When I start publishing articles, I will most probably include links for finding the stories I talk about. However, you might want to have access to all of the stories at any time. That is why I will be listing all the places I know where you can find Lego Universe stories.
The Archives
When the Lego Universe Forum (and others) was deleted on the June of 2016, LMB user and writer, Talmid, managed to save many topics, albeit in a rough form, lacking CSS. This archive mostly consists of LU stories, which amount to the number of 108 (not counting the spam stories).
Here's a link to download the whole archive: Talmid Archive.
Later on, the Lego Message Boards were announced to be closing. Using Alcom's LMB Archiver, I archived the first 10 pages of the Classics Forum, where any remaining LU stories resided. While this archive consists of many different things, it also has 36 LU stories, some also being in talmid's archive, some being updated and some being totally new. Alcom's Archiver saved CSS elements as well, so the archives are a lot more better-looking (indeed they are not too different from what they were when the Boards were up).
Here is the link to my Classics Archive.
However, as I found out recently, these are not the only archives in existence. Another, much more complete one exists on web.archive.org. To the extent I've explored it, it seems to have everything. In fact, the Lego Message Boards have been archived at different times, so one can find the Lego Universe and Stories of Lego Universe subforums before they got deleted. They also have gotten the look right. So, you might ask why use the other archives. Well, I find that web.archive's mutliple redirects can make it somewhat slow to work with. It also relies on Internet Connection, though nowadays that shouldn't be a problem most of the time. In the end, what you choose to use is up to you entirely, but I just want to give you all the options. The link to it is here: web.archive.org LMBs.
Edit: Actually, on further investigation I have discovered that at least the earliest time period archives are not complete.
There's also another place where LU stories are hosted, the Lego Universe Stories Wiki. I believe that place has been dead for a long time and I'm not sure if it has stories you won't find elsewhere, but it's out there and you might want to check it out.
Websites With New Stories
Now, being done with the places where you can find old stories, let's talk about where you can find new. Most of you will probably know of the Fanfiction Subforum at the DLU website, but if we want to be complete we should mention it here. Unfortunately, it only has a limited amount of stories. Hopefully, it might prosper more in the future. Let's help by making its community thrive: DLU Fanfiction Subforum.
Finally, there's one more place to mention, which I know from personal experience. That is the Knights of the Olde Speech Wiki (and some other smaller wikis to which links you can find in the KotOS one). The Knights of the Olde Speech are group of friends and writers that came to be in the LU forums of the LMBs. We survived after its closure and migrated to a wiki we made, where we upload our co-written series. Seeing as I am one of the KotOS, it could look like self-advertisement to mention this here. Well, I guess it is. But the amount of stories hosted in this wiki is so extensive I could not keep it out of this list. So, here is a link to that wiki: KotOS Wiki.
These are the websites and archives that I know, but if I'm missing something you know about, please contact me about it. I will be glad to find there are more stories out there and add their existence to the list.
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