All our eggs in one archive 0 ▲ What the Fran 1 hour ago · Tech · hide I don't know the ins and outs of the AO3 situation and this isn't about that. I think AO3 is a miracle but this potentially weeks-long outage is a reminder about the putting of all the eggs in one basket. A while ago I started posting some supplementary fic materials on a site of my own and thought about putting up the full fic when it was finished. This situation is definitely lighting a fire under me. When I started out reading fic (1998 time) it was all over - on forums, on authors' own sites, on tiny dedicated sites just for that ship, on larger sites for the canon. LiveJournal and Dreamwidth did a lot of heavy lifting a bit later on. Having everything collected on Fanfiction.net was great, then AO3 was even better. Importing the older archives and saving all that fic is amazing. AO3 was a safe haven through various purges. I started using it after the FF.net exodus in 2012. There's danger though. We traded ownership and independence for the convenience of tagging and… Comments on Bubbles are switched off. Bubbles is here to help you find posts, and many writers have chosen not to have comments on their blogs. If you want to talk about this post, write to the author or reply on your own blog.
