One suggestion I'd make is that it allows fic to be more easily found. Just about every news story citing fan fiction mentions fanfiction.net because it's so high traffic. As a result, virtually everyone in every fandom knows about the site as well. That makes it easier to follow authors across multiple fandoms, or to find large bodies of fic on a particular character, pairing or fandom.
FF.net served needs at the time it was launched, but it now bans a variety of types and formats of fic, so it is no longer as inclusive as it once was. Having used the interface, I also find it terribly clunky to use in terms of uploading and utilizing one's account. I believe that AO3 has been better designed for current types of fandom usage.
Also AO3, like DW, has no ads. The LJ clones were well designed for social networking, but make for a terrible archive. DW has made improvements in that area -- improving tag searching, journal and site searching, enabling longer posting limits, etc. But the site is still designed to link people together for discussion purposes, not as an archiving system.
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Date: 2010-03-15 11:04 pm (UTC)FF.net served needs at the time it was launched, but it now bans a variety of types and formats of fic, so it is no longer as inclusive as it once was. Having used the interface, I also find it terribly clunky to use in terms of uploading and utilizing one's account. I believe that AO3 has been better designed for current types of fandom usage.
Also AO3, like DW, has no ads. The LJ clones were well designed for social networking, but make for a terrible archive. DW has made improvements in that area -- improving tag searching, journal and site searching, enabling longer posting limits, etc. But the site is still designed to link people together for discussion purposes, not as an archiving system.