[ SECRET POST #5683 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5683 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

While I definitely have the feeling that OP is one of those weirdos here who have a legit problem with fic in general. I do believe there's a trend to what you've written- so far that I wouldn't put AO3 on too much of a pedestal in the archival of fanfiction category just yet.
Like as far as I can recall, most sites (fanfic based or not) were hailed as archival in their own right for a long time going. It wasn't until a number of years later that the price of hiving these archives drew too much of a deficit to be able to sustain itself without an alternate means of $$. This lead to ads, which lead to people abandoning the site for somewhere new, which lead to closure. AO3 is still in its 15-mins of fame years, I think, and while steps have been taken to save many doomed projects, those also have to be wanted enough to have people make the effort to save them, almost always from the doomed site itself.
Time will only tell if AO3 maintains it's focus, or if something else passes it on to obscurity.

Basically, while AO3 is the best we have atm, it's not as if we haven't said such a thing before.

[(Anonymous)]

'AO3 is still in its 15-mins of fame years'

A03 has been around for 13 years, what are you talking about?

And A03 will never have ads. That's the point of A03. That's why there are donation drives every few months. Do you know what's going on?

[(Anonymous)]

A03 has been around for 13 years, what are you talking about?

Lol! This was literally my exact thought. In internet years, it's solidly middle-aged at least.

And yeah, I'm fairly confident that AO3 would literally go under before it resorted to ads, because having ads is fundamentally anathema to the site's identity. If they resorted to ads, AO3 would be a fundamentally different site that happened to be wearing the old site's name.

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Anon of the ayrt

I already responded below, but I figured I might as well say it here as well, sorry again for the double post I guess;; My use of the the phrase '15mis of fame' was more in reference to it's current popularity rather than any sort of literal timeframe. It's not uncommon at all for a site to resort to alternate means of income (idk what you're imagining, but adds aren't always the, in your face, popup as soon as you click, grow your dick, type of site ruiners... I was thinking more of the passive, blink and you miss it type??) especially when those who run the site rotate, (even despite the donating community voting for who's in charge) the original purpose of the site often gets lost in translation.
Even if they decide to end operations instead, it'd technically be no different than the very sites it exists to save.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ahh, sorry, I meant more that it's still in its prime, not referring to any specific timeframe. I probably should have chosen a better comparison, but I digress! I'm just saying that as time goes by newer things will pop up, (even if it's in another twenty years or so, as I'm basically talking hypothetically here), and AO3 may fall out of favour for something new. In that case donations will slow, while data continues to increase. It wouldn't be the first time a site would be forced to look at alternate means of income even if it goes against its initial purpose of existing. Especially if those who created it are no longer leading the charge.

If they end up closing when up against the choice to fail or find another means of support, then it again would be just another site to disappear into the ether that is the internet/become just another project for some other site to save.
I'm not saying it's imminent or destined to happen or anything of that sort, just that we shouldn't assume it's exempt from such a future. (which, obviously, right now can seem almost impossible a scenario)