[ SECRET POST #2473 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2473 ⌋

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Comments

[ninety6tears]

You can't have much of a "sense of community" on AO3 though, because it's not a social platform. If the fandom died in other forums, maybe it was just dying, but I admit to really wishing the fanfic/discussion was still in the same realms when it comes to the death of LJ, personally.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there are comms where people post fic by linking to stories on AO3, then discussion can still happen on the comm or forum. Personally, I like this approach because I like the way AO3 is searchable, but I still want fandom discussion and interaction outside of fic comments. If people were flat-out abandoning the OP's forum, it was probably more a lack of interest in the forum than a desire to be on AO3.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

AO3 is actually searchable? Really!? Because whenever I've tried it, I just get a load of irrelevant tag spam.

[(Anonymous)]

I've never had any problem searching it. It has more options than any other site in the right hand sidebar.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

Online social fandoms started dying when webrings, geocities, and mailing lists fell out of favor. Everything since then has just been one long inward spiral to statements that were either write only or read only. There is no feedback mechanism any longer.

[(Anonymous)]

My fandom is still going strong on LJ.

[(Anonymous)]

I vote we go back to paper zines.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

I could live with that.

[tree_and_leaf]

I'm really sad about the fall-off of posting on LJ, but I don't really think that one's down to AO3, at least not chiefly. It seems to be more of a consequence of the growth of Tumblr (though I still don't get why people love Tumblr so much, even after having tried it out), the DDOS attack/ reliablity issues, combined with some badly implemented changes, LJ has been having lately, and probably also the split between LJ and DW.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I blame the fall in LJ use to a few things: Selling the site to questionable owners, crap updates, the big SJW crusades of '07 (Strikethrough and Boldthrough), the reactionary shifts to DW and Tumblr...

And Tumblr. The most non-community-intended site that Fandom has ever been stupid enough to move into.

AO3 is not intended to be a community site, not like places like LJ. AO3 is an archive. It's there to post fic. People on community sites can post their fics to AO3 and put links on their journals. They've bee doing that for years for FFN-stored fics too.

[(Anonymous)]

And Tumblr. The most non-community-intended site that Fandom has ever been stupid enough to move into.

AMEN