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(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I honestly don't understand why AO3 is considered to be a good or easy layout for fanfic. I've always found it to be all over the place. I can never properly find the kind of fic I'm looking for, when I find that to be genuinely easy on ff.net, even if lots of it is shit.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't even figure out what genre I'm reading over at FF.net- the Char & Char search feature always gives mixed results.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you mean? They have specific genre search functions... and it's listed for every fic.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a shitload easier to use if you're a writer

Sorry your fandoms are full of assholes who can't tag well

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a shitload easier to use if you're a writer

That...hasn't been my experience? At least the last time I was uploading a bunch of stuff there, which admittedly was a year or so ago, AO3 kept dropping paragraphs out of my story and weirdly formatting things. Maybe they've fixed the bug now though?

The one thing I do like about AO3 is it lets you group your stories by series, which ffnet doesn't.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I think it was still technically in beta mode a year ago, wasn't it?

Even if not though, ffn is (was? I haven't been there in a few years now) notorious for changing people's formatting and stuffing up the text.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, AO3's still in beta mode now; check out their logo in the top left corner: http://archiveofourown.org/
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[personal profile] iggy 2013-10-06 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a writer and I find ff.net and ao3 to be about equal in terms of ease of use.
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As a reader...

[personal profile] kaijinscendre 2013-10-05 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I find it SO much easier to find stuff on Ao3. I want a Loki fic involving torture and with Thor, Clint, Steve as characters and Loki/Tony? I can easily look that up.

Go by Loki character tag. Then check Tony/Loki as the Relationships. Click Thor, Clint, and Steve character boxes. Then search within results for "torture". Oh. I also want only completed stories.

Let me see you do that as easily on FF.net.
Edited 2013-10-05 20:40 (UTC)

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
that's because you don't know how to look. i've always found everything i want when i make a search. maybe you have little patient to that site?

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Or maybe they're in fandoms without tag wranglers, so it's just a mess.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I can never properly find the kind of fic I'm looking for, when I find that to be genuinely easy on ff.net, even if lots of it is shit.

This. And its doubly annoying on AO3, because it *Looks* like it should be awesome, and then when it's not, everything just feels super shitty. I mean, I mean, I guess if I want a specific story (eg [trigger warning] suicical characters) it's nice to sort for that tag and then narrow by fandom, but the larger your search parameters get, the more confused the site seems to get.

Csae in point, I was checking the profile of someone who left me kudos recently. There fandoms list was a bunch of stuff I didn't care about and a handful of things I did, so I clicked the link to go to the complete list of their works and tried to filter it down to just the three fandoms I cared about, and it told me there were none. Went back to the main thing, and found two of the fandoms on the first page and the other on the second. So, I think the filter was trying to find one fic that had all three fandoms, and it's just like "that's not at all what I mean."

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
thier is an and/or switch.

the defult is and.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
So, I think the filter was trying to find one fic that had all three fandoms, and it's just like "that's not at all what I mean."

Um, ff.net filters work the same way, dude. If you use the ff.net filters "Sirius B.," "Remus L.," and "English," your search isn't going to return 1) every fic that contains Sirius + 2) every fic that contains Remus + 3) every single Harry Potter fic written in English; it's going to (quite sensibly and usefully) return stories in English that contain both Sirius and Remus. So I'm really not sure why you're complaining about this.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? And it's CLEAR on FFN that that's what happens. It's NOT/wasn't clear on AO3.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
SA

BTW, not a dude. I know some people are all "Dude is unisex now!" but it's really not.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, way to quibble about something pointless, lady!anon.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, heaven forbid someone should object to male being the default.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yes it is, and has been for decades.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's picked up double-use as an exclamation. As an epithet for a person, it is still a male term.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Not if you're on the left coast of the US. It's a generic epithet for "person" out here.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-06 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

It's cool by me that you're making your stand, anon, but I've gotta say that I'm not going to change my terminology in the future. I'm a woman who addresses her female (and male) friends as "dude" and feels generally positive about them doing the same to her. If I knew who you were, I'd avoid calling you something you disliked, obvs. But, as it is, I'm not about to self-censor myself on the off-chance that the next anon I respond to happens to be you again. Sorry.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-07 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
You don't see many civil and sensible responses to people who are being either a) oversensitive or b) trolls, so kudos to you, dude :)
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[personal profile] dimestoresaint 2013-10-05 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

I gave up reading fanfiction for the longest time because my fandom moved over there and it's such a disaster. By the time I find what I'm looking for, the urge to read it has long since passed.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-05 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I find AO3 almost impossible to navigate, myself.
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