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I like reading fanfiction and Ao3 is the best site for it, without question. I understand its got a lot of great tools and such and is ideal for searching for fics of all types.
But, y'know, it will never have much community.
One of my favourite things about fanfiction.net was having a favourites list and checking out the favourites list of writers I liked.
I loved how most people tended to have profiles full of text. Sometimes it was notes on their fics and such, sometimes random rambling or pdates, sometimes it was full of jokes or those copy-paste into your profile lines. When you clicked on an author, that's the first thing you saw followed by scrolling down to their stories they've written always in update order by default. And then a single click opens their favourites list. I found so many gems through that method.
Finding bookmarks on ao3 is nothing like that somehow. Few writers have loads of fics favourited as theirs like five other methods of keeping track of fics somehow. Namely tracking and collections. Why there's so much overlap I have no idea. Collections I still do not fully understand. Why they are so odd I don't know. You can create private collections and make fics unrevealed and it may be possible to add other people's fics to your invisible collection to take it hostage if you wanted.
Why is their no actual variant to ffn communities which were just little collections of fics people shared publicly allowing people to find a bunch of recommended fics. It was strange that you're only allowed one community per person but aside from that at least you could wilffuly connect with others in that tiny way.
The only way to find a collection is to click on a fic that's already in it and then itll show you its in a collection and then you can open that collection to see related fics. It's meant for challenges but people use it for recs and its just so needlessly weird!
Oh well.
But, y'know, it will never have much community.
One of my favourite things about fanfiction.net was having a favourites list and checking out the favourites list of writers I liked.
I loved how most people tended to have profiles full of text. Sometimes it was notes on their fics and such, sometimes random rambling or pdates, sometimes it was full of jokes or those copy-paste into your profile lines. When you clicked on an author, that's the first thing you saw followed by scrolling down to their stories they've written always in update order by default. And then a single click opens their favourites list. I found so many gems through that method.
Finding bookmarks on ao3 is nothing like that somehow. Few writers have loads of fics favourited as theirs like five other methods of keeping track of fics somehow. Namely tracking and collections. Why there's so much overlap I have no idea. Collections I still do not fully understand. Why they are so odd I don't know. You can create private collections and make fics unrevealed and it may be possible to add other people's fics to your invisible collection to take it hostage if you wanted.
Why is their no actual variant to ffn communities which were just little collections of fics people shared publicly allowing people to find a bunch of recommended fics. It was strange that you're only allowed one community per person but aside from that at least you could wilffuly connect with others in that tiny way.
The only way to find a collection is to click on a fic that's already in it and then itll show you its in a collection and then you can open that collection to see related fics. It's meant for challenges but people use it for recs and its just so needlessly weird!
Oh well.
