Most fic is posted to ao3, but the real fandom "community" is on tumblr these days. I really, really miss the LJ days. My main fandom (SGA) is spread between LJ/DW and tumblr, with little overlap.
Tumbl scares me. From outside, it seems to be a black hole that utterly consumes people and won't release their hold on their free time. :P
Also it seems to be mainly visual in nature, or at least what I've seen, and I've always been better with words.
I love AO3, but it really would benefit from a community aspect... a forum or at least the ability to message people independently from the comments on their stories.
Tumblr is definitely a black hole that sucks you in and refuses to let you go. It is really visual in nature, though there ARE some text posts. But yeah, it's very different from LJ.
It WOULD be nice if they created a forum or something. Though they would probably need to expand their servers and such...
Yeah, a forum might be a bit much, but why not private messaging? It can't take up much more room in the servers than the comments, and it would be nice to be able to approach someone that way. Heck, ff.net does it, and everybody knows that website is not ideal.
Meanwhile, I've been tidying up my stories. I rounded up my backups, and though I lost many of my really old stories (we're talking mostly Mary Sues written in Spanish when a teenager, here) I was still able to save most of it. I have waaaaaaay more disconnected things written down than I thought I did. O_o
I've been posting some stragglers from the kink memes and prompts to my ao3 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/Anyjen/works), in case you want to check them out. It's really not much yet, but more is coming.
Hey my dear! I'm still around, but Feb was...kinda wretched for me. And I've been missing the sense of community that we had on LJ and tried to have on DW. I'm on AO3 and tumblr, but you're right, it's not the same. <3
Extremely late replying, but better late than never, right?
I really wish they would add a community side to AO3. Even just a forum would be nice. They don't even have private messaging, so if you want to have a conversation with someone, you necessarily have to do it as a comment in one of their fics and then everyone can read the entire thing.I do love how great it is for purely fanfics. It's so neat and simple, and the search engine is to die for.
I've tried to create a tumblr account, but I just can't get into it. Anyway, I've been told tumblr is kinda going downhill, too... I guess things just fall out of fashion and we can't stop it.
Sadly I also lost my Dreamwidth account due to the data breach and I haven't had any luck trying to recover it. I might try opening a ticket like I did with Livejournal, but I haven't had much free time to find out how. LJ was a priority because I had a lot more stuff over here that I really wanted to recover. I basically never updated DW after doing a backup of my LJ during the Russian Hacks debacle (LJ really has not had it easy...).
If I ever do recover my DW account or if I decide to create I new one, I'll definitely give you a shout.
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Also it seems to be mainly visual in nature, or at least what I've seen, and I've always been better with words.
I love AO3, but it really would benefit from a community aspect... a forum or at least the ability to message people independently from the comments on their stories.
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It WOULD be nice if they created a forum or something. Though they would probably need to expand their servers and such...
I miss the days that fandom was centralized.
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Meanwhile, I've been tidying up my stories. I rounded up my backups, and though I lost many of my really old stories (we're talking mostly Mary Sues written in Spanish when a teenager, here) I was still able to save most of it. I have waaaaaaay more disconnected things written down than I thought I did. O_o
I've been posting some stragglers from the kink memes and prompts to my ao3 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/Anyjen/works), in case you want to check them out. It's really not much yet, but more is coming.
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I really wish they would add a community side to AO3. Even just a forum would be nice. They don't even have private messaging, so if you want to have a conversation with someone, you necessarily have to do it as a comment in one of their fics and then everyone can read the entire thing.I do love how great it is for purely fanfics. It's so neat and simple, and the search engine is to die for.
I've tried to create a tumblr account, but I just can't get into it. Anyway, I've been told tumblr is kinda going downhill, too... I guess things just fall out of fashion and we can't stop it.
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If I ever do recover my DW account or if I decide to create I new one, I'll definitely give you a shout.
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