MahMan

DG and I didn't originally set up this site 20 years ago. The original founder set it up in protest of mass censorship on fanfiction.net and other creative writing platforms at the time. The first working name for the site was buffysmut and was running on a beta version of WordPress.
 
The name adult fanfiction became official late October early November 2002 and started using a site software called storyboard. Early 2004 the the original founder stepped back and handed control over to two moderators. Things  got messy and control consolidated to one person.  I was brought in around that time to just do maintenance and deal with the pastels that was the site layout. 
Real life happened and the moderator that had control needed to step back and we entered the Era of the mod committees and bird brain admin. If I remember correctly DG started to help maintain the site in this Era. I had stepped away while maintain bare minimum upkeep because of how the mod committee had treated me.
The head of the mod committee and thier followers briefly managed to steal the site and pilfer donations. 
DG had come to me and got in contact with the person the founder handed the site to and between the three of us managed to get control back and retrieve the stolen donations to cover the unpaid server costs. 
After the dust settled,  DG was asked to act as the Executive for the site, while Ownership remains with Apollo(not active due to real  life reasons). My role became that of developer and technical admin. The first iteration of fiction portal came about a year after.
For my part, I've stuck with the site because at its core, AFF encourages literacy among adults and will not censor content unless absolutely necessary (hate crime/harmful or harassment to a living person/ self harming). In our 20 years we've only had 3 incidents like that. DMCA's we've only had one. The ability to freely express one's self is important,  especially in regions where such freedoms are limited. AFF is both a place for creativity and open discussion without being shamed by taboos or unreasonably imposed censorship. 

i won’t pass

i won’t pass

i won’t pass

thanks for your work manta!