Sturgeon's Law is never so apparent as when you're in an archive. AO3 has changed how I read fic, but it's also changed how often I want to stab myself in the eyes.

So much this. I routinely bless AO3's ability to let me filter by kudos, but even that doesn't entirely safeguard against the 90%.

I think I read the comments on bad fic more than I read the comments on good, so I can get my aghast on properly. PEOPLE. What's with having different standards from me? Where does that get us?

What worries me about that is that if encouraged, you know the awful writers will be WAY more prolific than the good ones.

He said, sprinting past a 125,000-word WIP that gets updated about 8 times a day and is always at the top of the Teen Wolf tags...

What worries me about that is that if encouraged, you know the awful writers will be WAY more prolific than the good ones.

He said, sprinting past a 125,000-word WIP that gets updated about 8 times a day and is always at the top of the Teen Wolf tags...

Oh gods, yes. There's one posting updates at least once a day to 3 different WIPs in one of my fandoms.

I've gotten some good mileage out of other people's bookmarks on AO3. There's a decent chance that if I like an author I'll like fic they've bookmarked. I've hopscotched through a goodly chunk of a fandom that way.

Sorting by kudos just usually reinforces that my tastes are not always fandom's tastes.

I've gotten some good mileage out of other people's bookmarks on AO3

That's the least random way I've done it--once I've read all an author's works, I check their bookmarks. A particularly interesting commenter (RARE) I will also check.

I still miss Delicious though.

And try to put some bookmarks up--more for the authors than other readers, because who's gonna check me?

I still miss Delicious though.

Oh, me too. Pinboard's good, but the catchment area is too small.

I still use Delicious for bookmarks, but only as a place to store them for my own use.

Pinboard's good, but the catchment area is too small.

Talk to me about this catchment area. I don't know what the term means.

Is the basic problem twofold: a) the new Delicious removed features we saw as required for our fanfic bookmarking and bookmark sharing requirements b) nowhere else has the critical mass of users and bookmarks?

Or is this catchment area a functionality thing that Pinboard doesn't have? I guess it could be lack of critical mass too.

I don't Delicious near as much as I used to. Since I shifted reading to almost all AO3, I kinda stopped bookmarking at all, because it tracks everything you read anyway. But now I'm doing it because the authors get bookmarking stats (right? my artwork has never been bookmarked, so I don't know from personal experience) sent to them/shown in console, over and above looking at the entry? And hey, maybe a reader reads like me and can get something out of it.

But, shit, I'd love to put my "likes" and "favourites" and "kudos" in one place and have people be able to search tags across the media not just sites. If Pinboard, maybe I'd spend money. But unfortunately I also think about how I'd design it, and how much I can't actually code something of that scope.

With all that free time AO3 developers have (move in case the lightning hits you too) it would be great if they had a pan-site bookmarking sideline. But what's in it for them? Hell, I'd just love if you could host pictures there--so few of us put pictures up there.

Which reminds me, I'm ridiculously overdue for an LJ post. Sheeit. How's LJ doing as the former buzzing hive where you could get meta, fic, art, and fights all in one place? How's Dreamwidth doing as an alternative?