Archives are attractive if you get into an obscure fandom 10 years after everyone else has abandoned it.
On archives, there aren't any dead links either (at least I never noticed them). Which is great if you're looking for stories that were written 5-10 years ago. When you try to use rec lists, you'll end up with a lot of dead links, because the author moved, deleted all their fic or the platform (like Geocities) vanished.
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Date: 2010-03-17 05:46 pm (UTC)On archives, there aren't any dead links either (at least I never noticed them). Which is great if you're looking for stories that were written 5-10 years ago. When you try to use rec lists, you'll end up with a lot of dead links, because the author moved, deleted all their fic or the platform (like Geocities) vanished.