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penknife has an interesting post on using AO3's new ficathon-running tools, for those of you who are running or thinking about running ficathons. (kristen999 might find this useful, especially.) I am almost certainly going to be running SGA Genficathon on AO3 next year .... though I will still have it available on LJ (and, by popular demand, DW too!) for people who don't have AO3 accounts and don't want them.
Next year's Genficathon will be sort of an experiment, actually ... I really want to it to be as accessible to different areas of the fandom as possible, so I'm planning on having a presence on AO3, LJ and DW, and seeing how that goes and whether I can run it in all three places simultaneously and as seamlessly as possible. I will defer to authorial preference as much as possible on where your story is hosted, but what I'm thinking of doing with most of the stories is having them on AO3 and then linking to the day's stories from the LJ/DW account, kind of like![[personal profile]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
roga did last year with purimgifts. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a giant muddled mess ...
I will admit right up front that I was terribly skeptical about AO3 when the idea was first announced, but so far, I am loving the heck out of it. I've been crossposting most of my newer fic there, and I've uploaded most of my older one-night-fandom fic (the random stuff that I wrote over the last ten years as I bounced in and out of little fandoms). I haven't gotten around to uploading the fic for my three big fandoms, i.e. the ones that I wrote the most for (Trigun, DBZ and SGA) but it's all on ff.net or my SGA fic page, and I'll get there eventually.
I haven't posted to ff.net since ... 2008, I think? I keep thinking that I ought to go upload my Avatar fic at the very least, but then I remember how frustrating and unpleasant I find the ff.net upload interface, and I can't bring myself to bother with it. But AO3 -- I give it three thumbs up! I love the upload interface, the after-the-fact editing capabilities, the tag searching (though I wish very much for a tag-exclusion feature; I hope they add that in a future update), the reading interface, the fact that so much odd and obscure fandom fic is available on there -- no longer than it's been around, it's already become my new one-stop-shopping site when I get into a new fandom!
Hmm. Other stuff:
For people who are either moving to Dreamwidth or starting DW journals (obligatory disclaimer: I'm in both places but mostly on LJ, and don't really mind where you are as long as you don't mind where I am, etc),rydra_wong has a newbie's guide to getting started on DW that looks very useful! And she has awesome Follow Friday posts with links to useful/fun/cool/interesting DW users and communities to read.
I'm crossposting most stuff now except for the non-fannish posts, though I back up my LJ periodically on DW (which means the personal stuff get moved over in the backups too). I still dislike crossposting; I don't know for certain why, because it isn't that much of a hassle -- it's just a me thing, I guess. I just don't like it. It adds an extra level of difficulty to coding posts and putting in links, and it spams me with crosspost notifications (OH MY GOD I HATE HAVING MY INBOX FILL UP WITH THOSE). I tend to edit my posts five, six and seven times after I post them, which means I get a ton of notifications for every post.
But I adore the importer, which is a thing of beauty and has never failed me, and I find DW much more streamlined, cleaner and easier to use than LJ. The more LJ changes its interface, the less I like it. (Ask me about my loathing for the way it "suggests" tags now, for example. It wasn't broken, LJ, so stop trying to fix it!) And the more of my flist moves to DW (as well as new DW-only people coming in), the more I want to have a presence in both places so as to interact with people on whichever platform they prefer.
I've got a bunch of Avatar meta I want to write too, but I can't get it to coalesce in my brain ...
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sheppard_hc is currently taking signups for their fifth Secret Santa exchange. (Five years? Really? OMFG, I've been in this fandom a long time ...)penknife has an interesting post on using AO3's new ficathon-running tools, for those of you who are running or thinking about running ficathons. (kristen999 might find this useful, especially.) I am almost certainly going to be running SGA Genficathon on AO3 next year .... though I will still have it available on LJ (and, by popular demand, DW too!) for people who don't have AO3 accounts and don't want them. Next year's Genficathon will be sort of an experiment, actually ... I really want to it to be as accessible to different areas of the fandom as possible, so I'm planning on having a presence on AO3, LJ and DW, and seeing how that goes and whether I can run it in all three places simultaneously and as seamlessly as possible. I will defer to authorial preference as much as possible on where your story is hosted, but what I'm thinking of doing with most of the stories is having them on AO3 and then linking to the day's stories from the LJ/DW account, kind of like
roga did last year with purimgifts. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a giant muddled mess ...I will admit right up front that I was terribly skeptical about AO3 when the idea was first announced, but so far, I am loving the heck out of it. I've been crossposting most of my newer fic there, and I've uploaded most of my older one-night-fandom fic (the random stuff that I wrote over the last ten years as I bounced in and out of little fandoms). I haven't gotten around to uploading the fic for my three big fandoms, i.e. the ones that I wrote the most for (Trigun, DBZ and SGA) but it's all on ff.net or my SGA fic page, and I'll get there eventually.
I haven't posted to ff.net since ... 2008, I think? I keep thinking that I ought to go upload my Avatar fic at the very least, but then I remember how frustrating and unpleasant I find the ff.net upload interface, and I can't bring myself to bother with it. But AO3 -- I give it three thumbs up! I love the upload interface, the after-the-fact editing capabilities, the tag searching (though I wish very much for a tag-exclusion feature; I hope they add that in a future update), the reading interface, the fact that so much odd and obscure fandom fic is available on there -- no longer than it's been around, it's already become my new one-stop-shopping site when I get into a new fandom!
Hmm. Other stuff:
For people who are either moving to Dreamwidth or starting DW journals (obligatory disclaimer: I'm in both places but mostly on LJ, and don't really mind where you are as long as you don't mind where I am, etc),
rydra_wong has a newbie's guide to getting started on DW that looks very useful! And she has awesome Follow Friday posts with links to useful/fun/cool/interesting DW users and communities to read.I'm crossposting most stuff now except for the non-fannish posts, though I back up my LJ periodically on DW (which means the personal stuff get moved over in the backups too). I still dislike crossposting; I don't know for certain why, because it isn't that much of a hassle -- it's just a me thing, I guess. I just don't like it. It adds an extra level of difficulty to coding posts and putting in links, and it spams me with crosspost notifications (OH MY GOD I HATE HAVING MY INBOX FILL UP WITH THOSE). I tend to edit my posts five, six and seven times after I post them, which means I get a ton of notifications for every post.
But I adore the importer, which is a thing of beauty and has never failed me, and I find DW much more streamlined, cleaner and easier to use than LJ. The more LJ changes its interface, the less I like it. (Ask me about my loathing for the way it "suggests" tags now, for example. It wasn't broken, LJ, so stop trying to fix it!) And the more of my flist moves to DW (as well as new DW-only people coming in), the more I want to have a presence in both places so as to interact with people on whichever platform they prefer.
I've got a bunch of Avatar meta I want to write too, but I can't get it to coalesce in my brain ...
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This is definitely in the works, though I don't think it's very close (there are so many features in the works; there's a bunch of stuff with tags that the wrangling committee is begging for, but coders only have so much time...but rest assured we will keep begging 'til we get 'em!)
Question about the DW importer - I've got an account but I've never got around to backing up my lj. So it sounds like you can import more than once? Will it re-import new edits/comments on older posts? So if I import my lj now, but then don't get around to setting up cross-posting yet, will I be able to re-import new posts when I do get around to the cross-posting?
(...not that there will be that many posts anyway, the way I've been posting lately, but...!)
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Question about the DW importer - I've got an account but I've never got around to backing up my lj. So it sounds like you can import more than once? Will it re-import new edits/comments on older posts? So if I import my lj now, but then don't get around to setting up cross-posting yet, will I be able to re-import new posts when I do get around to the cross-posting?
With the (giant) caveat that I'm just working off a user perspective and don't have any clue about how this actually works -- yes, that's my understanding. I've done multiple imports, and each time it seems to get all the new comments and whatnot that have been posted since the last time. I'm not actually sure how it handles post edits, but I assume it gets those too. (It also consolidates comments on crossposted entries -- that is, the next time I import, this entry will end up with both the LJ and DW comments all over at DW. But it only works that way on entries that were posted using the crossposter; if you post the same entry by hand at both places, you just end up with two copies.)
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*Not that I've put up all my stuff there yet, either...
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I don't know if I would like to see EVERYTHING on AO3 just because I don't really think all of fandom's eggs should be in one basket like that. But it is so much nicer to have a central place to look for fic! I need to go get my SGA fic on there at some point (*shudders* SO MANY STORIES OMG).
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Fic is shared, I've never f-locked my stories so the whole FB etc, stuff doesn't effect me. I might have a dozen f-locked posts and while I find the whole FB thing to be a violation of privacy, again I use my LJ for fandom purposes mainly. Just now I was forced to comment on someone's DW page for a post made on LJ..very annoying to have to log in with open ID.
I was asked if I wanted a DW code, I might take it, but what is the benefit if coms are not mirrored? Do I have to make separate ones? AWWWWWW :-)
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The biggest advantage to running Genficathon on AO3 is that authors will be able to edit and control their own stories, both before and after they go live. You would upload your own story and it would always be part of your list of stories on AO3 (so you can edit/modify/delete it as you wish), but we can still do the anonymous posting and then have the archive add the author's names automatically -- the best of both worlds! Like I said, I don't plan to force people to use AO3 if they don't want to, so doing it the original way will still be perfectly fine. But I think the new way will offer more options to authors who are interested in doing it that way.
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Maybe, I'll take these new frontiers step by step and it was appear to be so intimating. On AO3, do you use it as basically an archive or do you see any new readers there as well?
Thanks for the tips!
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For my part, at least, I really do plan on doing as much as I can with both the Genficathon and my own increasing use of DW to not leave behind the LJ areas of fandom. I do want to use AO3 for the Genficathon next year because I do think that it's a big step forward for the writers (and the mods, I cannot deny *g*) but I don't plan on forcing writers to get AO3 accounts to participate, just like we allow people without LJ accounts to participate in the Genficathon as it currently stands.
I started out with pretty much all of these things (including LJ) just getting an account and playing for a while, slowly doing more with it as I became more comfortable with it, so maybe it will work that way for you too! But, again, I don't think you should feel like you have to do any of these things if you don't want to, just because some of fandom is doing it.
On AO3, do you use it as basically an archive or do you see any new readers there as well?
My experience so far is that it's mostly an archive. The people who do comment on my fic seem to mostly come from LJ (or DW in the case of the Avatar fic). Aside from Yuletide, which is a thing unto itself, I think I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of comments I've gotten from someone who isn't obviously coming over from LJ to comment. It doesn't seem to have a social group that's coalesced around it the way ff.net does.
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