[ SECRET POST #4306 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4306 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom questions you're afraid to ask!

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen two wildly different sources of negative opinions about AO3. One is what's been described already from people trying to bring down the site for allowing fic they consider immoral, presumably, because they don't have much to back up the complaints they're making.

But completely outside of the anti mentality, there are other complaints that I, not knowing much about running a website, can't confirm or even summarize very well--but supposedly there's a lot that's fundamentally sloppy about the main code and since they are unwilling or unable to make huge changes to how data is organized on the site, they are continuously having technical crashes that they just fix by buying more servers, until those inevitably aren't enough and they have to buy more, etc.

There are also criticisms that supposedly have come from former members, of the funds being used for not very productive destination meetings, of wranglers having a lot of difficulty keeping up because they can't or won't improve the wrangling system. Another grain of salt: there may be sources for these claims somewhere but for the most part it doesn't seem to come up in namespace, so it's all rumor, but I have gotten the sense from multiple complaints that board members are intensely cliquey, rarely open to any attitude that isn't extremely positive about how things are going, and will shut out people who voice negativity, so that it sort of kind of makes sense that this stuff comes up only discreetly.

For example, an original work called The Course of Honour which has gained a transformative fandom of its own, has been repeatedly denied from getting a fandom tag on AO3 and people think it's because the novel's author has some unfavorable history with the OTW.

The site has been in beta for a ridiculously long time. Bugs happen a lot.

I've seen people make cases that the site is pulling along on an impressively low budget and I believe it, but not all of the problems are coming from bitter puritans necessarily.

Re: Fandom questions you're afraid to ask!

[(Anonymous)]

It strikes me that these are the kinds of issues that are inevitably going to plague an organization of this type. Of course that doesn't mean that they're not valid, probably they are.

I do take a grain of salt with the technical points, because every technical thing on the Internet always has a ridiculous amount of back-seat driving.