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Because I so often find myself accentuating the negative at the expense of the positive ...
... I love the AO3. I really do. I use it every day, and it's my first go-to stop when I get into a new fandom. I really love the upload interface (it's smooth, it's easy to use, it's easy to compulsively edit fics as I am wont to do), I love the tags, and the next time I do a fic exchange, I plan to use their (quite awesome-looking) anonymous exchange system.
Thank you to everyone who wrote the code, who does the tag wrangling, and all the other behind-the-scenes stuff that I'm sure I don't even know about. <3 Thank you for making it, and thank you for keeping it running smoothly.
(And, you know, no archive is going to be everything for everyone, and I know there are some of you out there who don't want to use it or haven't had a positive experience with it - and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to enjoy reading/posting on the AO3 just because I like it, or to feel like they need to get their fic up there if they don't enjoy the place. Your experiences and opinion are valid as well! But I do really like it, and while I know it's still in beta and don't expect to like every new change that is trotted out - there are dozens and dozens of things I do like for every one that don't work for me, and that's a really good ratio, methinks. <3)
Thank you to everyone who wrote the code, who does the tag wrangling, and all the other behind-the-scenes stuff that I'm sure I don't even know about. <3 Thank you for making it, and thank you for keeping it running smoothly.
(And, you know, no archive is going to be everything for everyone, and I know there are some of you out there who don't want to use it or haven't had a positive experience with it - and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to enjoy reading/posting on the AO3 just because I like it, or to feel like they need to get their fic up there if they don't enjoy the place. Your experiences and opinion are valid as well! But I do really like it, and while I know it's still in beta and don't expect to like every new change that is trotted out - there are dozens and dozens of things I do like for every one that don't work for me, and that's a really good ratio, methinks. <3)
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I adore the archive. In every way save traffic [currently, at least] it is superior to ff.net. I don't belong to many other archives because I have a lot of fandoms and I can't sign up to la new site every time I write a one-shot in a new fandom :D So I use LJ/DW as a one stop for all the LJ/DW comms, and ff.net where rating allows and AO3 as my other major storehouses :D
AO3 vs ff.net is a bit like DW vs LJ in that the archive is newer and more customer focussed and smaller but friendlier for that, whereas ff.net doesn't have to please people because it's just so huge they know they're still popular.
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Oh, I think that's an excellent point! :) And yeah, I really love their interface, as both a writer and a reader. I was awfully skeptical when the idea was first announced (I didn't see why we needed another multifandom archive when we already had ff.net and DW and LJ and all the individual fandom archives) but after the first time I used the archive, there was just no going back. :D
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I do think that it's important to speak up when we (the users) aren't being served properly, of course, and to bring up what we want to be done differently, and to be listened to. But it's SO easy to just coast along when things are going well, never saying thank you for the 99% of everything that works correctly, and then speak up about the 1% that's broken. It's just human nature, but it's also human nature to want to be thanked for the other 99%!
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It's hard to give you advice if you can't play around with the archive yet - maybe look through the fic and get used to the interface so that you'll already know your way around when you have the opportunity to explore the fully-featured archive?
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I think my only nit (and I don't know if it's the site or just my cranky computer) is that it'll stop working after I've done a lot of clicking around, then do an error report deal or tell me that there's too much traffic. Which wouldn't be a big deal if I could back-click and try again, but I pretty much have to start all over again. But, again, I can't say if it's the site or just my computer/Internet.