[ SECRET POST #5518 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5518 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'll use both and I like using Ao3 just because it's what's currently more convenient but people in fandom have this bizarre need to stan and defend a website of all things to the point where they'll get offended if you point out valid criticisms of it's functionality issues. Like my friend who is a programmer winced when I showed her how the website works, she thinks it's fine as a base but lord does it need work. Yet if you point these kinds of things out you get the most boggling defense of a clunky website that needs some fixes. And it's been this way for 10 years!

Like it's just a website I use, not my firstborn child? Why are people so weirdly defensive about it??

[(Anonymous)]

Where are you seeing this? Because I see legitimate criticisms go uncontested all the time, including in the site itself. I’m not saying my experience is the norm, but I don’t think seeing rabid defensiveness or stan behavior from the users is either.

Because there definitely is things to criticize re:layout and functionality. And I personally haven’t really seen people get mad when that’s pointed out.

[(Anonymous)]

I have to routinely unfollow a bunch of people on twitter and tumblr because any time even the smallest crit of Ao3 was posted, re: their layout and functionality, they've posted essay long screeds about how Ao3 is perfect, crit of it will kill fandom(somehow) or it's literally the savior of fandom... when it's a website. Like this keeps happening multiple times a year, I'm not following these people for anything other than a certain specific fandom/ship, them bam: Ao3 defense essay like they're being paid by them. It's annoying and weird.

I'm glad you haven't had this problem but I've ran into it more than a handful of times without trying.

[(Anonymous)]

I believe you that you run into it, and I am lucky for not having experienced these people. That is annoying. Nothing is perfect, and everything has room to improve. Constructive criticism is a good thing for fic, but they act like the site that hosts fic is beyond criticism? Ugh.

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And sorry for adding in all that “neither of our experiences are the norm” crap. I don’t know what crawled up my ass to think that was necessary, considering you never implied that.