[ SECRET POST #5683 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5683 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I adore AO3 (and I really, really do), I actually think AO3 has made the problem of "losing" fics a lot worse, not better. As someone who spent a long time in an old 90's fandom, I never found a single fic out of thousands that I was unable to access after a bit of poking around. Small, independent archives made it a pain in the ass for authors to completely delete their works, so if a fic is no longer available in one place, it can usually be found in another, and even if every site that previously hosted the fic is down, the wayback machine usually works to bring up the page.

By contrast, AO3's ubiquity has made it so that many authors post their fics exclusively on AO3, which makes it incredibly easy to delete them entirely, and while I know there have been periods of time in the past where wayback worked for AO3, to my knowledge it's been several years since that was the case.

Obviously the solution to this is to download everything you even remotely enjoy, just in case. And I do love that AO3 makes it easy to do so. But the fact remains that if you neglect to download something and the author deletes it, you may be SOL forever--which is not a problem I have ever once experienced with any of the thousands of fics I've read that predate AO3.