Desiderius Price

@Desiderius Price Yeah, not necessarily looking for help. Just kinda pointing out why I’m not on the platform. While I’m sad for the writers who can’t post their content and make some fans, I can’t see myself ever joining or posting my content. I've recently come across a newer platform. I got a chance to ask the CEO about their view of fanfic and they said they are okay with it. The place also has the option for people to pay writers.

@Deadman My potter fanfic relies heavily on letters & articles, so I find that it helps to set them apart in the narrative.
As to search… noticed some gripes in the AO3 subreddit, so yeah, not a super-great feature.  Likely also complicated by the tag restrictions I mentioned above.  I only use the search when getting statistics, so bit tougher to assist.

@Desiderius Price Yes, I suppose that could be the case. But for instance, I have a particular interest in femmeslash content and I would exclude slash content from AO3 based on the filter. But then when I did a search, they included slash content in the results. I have also had a particular pairing that I say needs to be included. Then I look at the tags for the top stories, and none of the stories had tags featuring that pairing. This is part of what I mean by my issues searching.

I generally don’t have interest in offering people visuals like that in my stories. I have occasionally done that on Wattpad but it’s few and far between.

@Deadman Ah… I’ve used AO3 as an author, not as a reader. 
As an author, I can use the AO3 skins to, say, block out a newspaper article or a letter, make it stand-out.  Here or on FF.net, you’ve got the stricter anti-hack HTML filtering so I’ve got to resort to a funky effect with characters to give a similar feel, but it’s not the same.
And fairly recently, (maybe past year or two??) AO3 began imposing a tag limit, and I was rather annoyed that I had to trim down my comprehensive tag list (lots of warnings & pairings) to be underneath their limit.  Maybe that has an adverse effect on searching?

@Desiderius Price Well I haven’t done a big deep dive into the platform personally mainly because I was put off by the attempt to read anything. For instance, I attempted to read a story from Buffy on AO3 and I got pretty much nothing but crossover stories with various other fandoms. I had to exclude a large amount of things in order to try and get exclusively Buffy content and even then it was difficult. Then I wanted a specific pairing and I got a bunch of stories that don’t have anything to do with that pairing. I don’t have this problem on AFF. The same thing with FFnet too. It’s much easier to navigate.

@Deadman  Bit weird, as overall I find AO3 pretty easy to use.  Additionally, the ability to customize the CSS (ie “skins”) makes the formatting a bit easier too; something I wish AFF had (no, not pestering as I know we’re a one-person operation when it comes to the website code).

Yep, it started early Monday.  They’ve taken advantage of some of cloudflare’s anti-DDOS stuff, so it’s mostly back as of a bit earlier today.  You can see the AO3 sub-reddit for some details.

Yep, it started early Monday.  They’ve taken advantage of some of cloudflare’s anti-DDOS stuff, so it’s mostly back as of a bit earlier today.  You can see the AO3 sub-reddit for some details.

Yeah, some themes went away

Congrats.  (Though I won’t say how much time I’m taking off for July 4th…)

Those with Christmas birthdays—yeah, their birthday celebrations tend to get merged in.  (A trick I heard years ago is to celebrate the ½ birthdays instead, still give the kid a special distinct day.)

I know   It’s a sort of family joke, baby sister’s birthday is on December 22nd. When she was a kid she refused to be excited for Christmas until after her birthday despite all the stores filling up with Christmas stuffs. Needless to say, she used to get a lot of Christmas stuff for her birthday 

Thank all the gods we don’t have to deal with Yule decorations in stores, although it might be nice not to see Christmas decorations until after Yule…   

Hey…. only trying to beat the stores to the Christmas decorations…. should be going up any day now.  👻

Hey…. only trying to beat the stores to the Christmas decorations…. should be going up any day now.  👻

This is absolute crock… everyone knows that my baby sister’s birthday comes first (in a little less than six months) And THEN Christmas will arrive… 

Time to startup the carols!  Suggest “Dropkick Murphys”, “The Season’s Upon Us”.

Though Romulus was five years ago.. yeah, some never vanish.  (Got his urn so...there’s that.)

Time to startup the carols!  Suggest “Dropkick Murphys”, “The Season’s Upon Us”.

“Only 364 more shopping days ‘til Christmas” is what they announce on my birthday.
My personal opinion is that while the Spirit of Christmas should endure all year round, that the Season of Christmas shall not start prior to the First Sunday of Advent, nor shall it persist beyond the Baptism of the Lord.  Your mileage may vary.
Happy Christmas!  😜

Though Romulus was five years ago.. yeah, some never vanish.  (Got his urn so...there’s that.)

Though mine’s eighteen, I still refer to him as a “kitten”

I still speak of my Lolo as if I only lost her last week, when she actually passed some 29 years ago, or so. 

Though mine’s eighteen, I still refer to him as a “kitten”

I know… dress up as a witch!  They always love children, and I think it’s atkins compliant