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Ff.net or AO3? Anonymous 03/05/16 (Sat) 16:42:21 No.455

I'm working on a longfic centered on plot, mystery and fantasy themed but I don't know if I should publish on fanfiction.net or AO3.

Here is the deal: ff.net is just fine. The first place you think of when you want to publish something, and there is a little bit of everything. I've seen really good stories and complete garbage equally, but that's not the matter. The matter is that I kind of ``really need`` customization features that ff.net doesn't have as it just lets me publish my story, and that's all.

And there's where I feel I need ao3. From a technical pov, ao3's is vastly superior. However, its fucking userbase. It has a direct influx of tumblr/sjws I can't fucking deal with. I almost think of it as tumblr's official fanfiction archive at this rate. I don't want those retarded bitches to touch my work, holy shit. I want to fucking stay from all of those infectious focus as much as I can.

Ao3 calls me because of its customization features but I can't help thinking of it as a gigantic archive for tumblrinas to post their shipping pwp garbage instead of something with a little bit of more quality. I may be wrong and haven't browsed the archive enough, but all I can think when I think about ao3 is smut and I'm yet to see some good fanfic on there not centered on shipping. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Pic related is what I found when I googled "ao3".

Anonymous 03/05/16 (Sat) 23:43:06 No.456

>>455

What customization features are you looking for? I'll agree that ff.net is rather barebones from a fic-hosting perspective, but I honestly can't think of any features that I've ever felt I truly needed that it didn't provide.

And while ao3 does have a very large and mostly shitty community not all of it is bad, especially not in certain fandoms. What fandom is your work in? Browse other works in that fandom for a bit, because it may be one of the "better" ones.

Also you could just post to both, and then remove it from ao3 if you ever decide that the community is too shit to even indirectly be a part of.

Anonymous 03/06/16 (Sun) 10:52:35 No.458

I prefer FFN for the larger userbase. And I can't really into AO3. I didn't know about the difference in userbase. I thought AO3 users were just a subset of FFN users.

Anonymous 03/06/16 (Sun) 18:56:22 No.459

>>456

I think you are right about there is a difference in certain fandoms. I mostly have been around the fandoms I'm interested on there so you may have a point is a fandom thing. I want to write a crossover, and one of them is… sigh, harry potter. Mostly because I kind of like the worldbuilding and I'm fond of some of its fanfiction out there, but the fandom is full retardation. The other one or two fandoms are pretty much small or dead and there is no fanbase worth of taking into account.

I liked ao3 because of its workskin feature. It lets you do some small tweaks with css. As far as I know, ff.net lets you use bold, cursive and underline as much.

>>458

I have the feeling it used to be/was supposed to be, but tumblr for what I saw won't stop talking about it as "the better ff.net" and I get the feeling it got filled with that kind of userbase. As >>456 says, however, could just be a fandom thing. I'm not really into that many fandoms when it comes to fanfiction.

Anonymous 03/07/16 (Mon) 00:48:22 No.461

Isn’t FF.net more likely to remove ‘adult’ stories? I think I’ve read some authors being worried about that in the past.

My biggest problem with FF.net is their reliance on Google scripts, and ‘robots.txt’, which makes it impossible to see past versions of the site with Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. AO3 also allows you to download stories as PDFs, which is nice if you’d want to preserve/archive stories.

Anonymous 03/07/16 (Mon) 03:09:24 No.462

>>459

Yeah, if you're writing in the HP fandom you're going to run into shit, however desu senpai from what I know the HP fandom is shit pretty much wherever it manifests, so even on ff.net you'll be swimming in fecal matter. ao3 is worse in general than ff.net from a community standpoint, but in this case it's not "shit v. not shit" it's "dry shit v wet shit".

>>461

From what I know ff.net only really removes lewds if they contain some less-acceptable elements, such as involving minors, being excessively violent, or being extremely explicit at length, and even then it's usually only a chance it'll happen.

Anonymous 03/07/16 (Mon) 10:30:59 No.464

>>461

Thanks for pointing that out about ff.net and its robots.txt, I didn't know.

And I heard about ff.net removing explicit stories too at some point years ago. Wasn't that why they created sites like adult-fanfiction.org ?

Any idea if ff.net keeps doing that nowadays tho?

>>462

I get your point. Guess it's inevitable. Gotta deal with it. Like I kind of already expected to deal with shit from that fandom but I still can stand the casual so cool and random xD default retardation from there, is the tumblr branch that kinda scared me after seeing some fics tagged on ao3 with stuff like nonbinary, demigender, demisexual and that kind of tumblr buzzwords. Lucky I think there aren't as many of that kind of fics (and people) as I thought at first.