[ SECRET POST #7024 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7024 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

loving the "grass is always greener" image choice, secret-maker!

and also no. forbidding new accounts from any fanfic archive is not going to bring back webrings. sorry, brosis, that age has passed, it's not ever coming back. FFN was around when we were still posting our fic first on our private shrines, and that didn't change the quality. these days most of the kids are posting first on tumblr, twitter, etc and getting their urge to archive it from that audience. if you take issue with the quality, blame social media's overall influence on fandom, not AO3 existing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah like why would someone make a new site when they can just make a tumblr. The NSFW rules doesn't really apply to the written word there

[(Anonymous)]

Was there *ever* a time fics were mainly distributed via forums or personal sites? because even when skimming fanlore, it seemed like specific fandoms (Tolkein, RPF, etc.) had their archives, with some generalized archives (ffn, mediaminer) at the same time. Multifandom sites have existed since the mid-90s at the latest. OP is yearning for a time that didn't exist.

[(Anonymous)]

I ran one, so yeah, but it really was the wild fuckin west out there. Personal sites, forums, sites built to move off forums (I saw so many start up when all the fanboys on theforce.net whined about fanfic on the forums), ff.n, then aff.n and then not because oh no porn, etc. There were a lot of options, forums were usually pretty unregulated while individual sites dedicated to one or a handful of overlapping fandoms were maintained at the whim of one would-be BNF who could be generous and accept all submissions or...the opposite. Basically, any iteration of a way to post a fic was all going on at the same time while FF.N was at its peak. Everything co-existed, but other anons are right that the wonky geocities/angelfire sites were getting lost all the time, it's frankly for the best we have a stable archive - and one that's preserving 90s fic from said sites!