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dani_the_girlI remember way back when I was young and green in the ways of web design, I wanted to re-do my website and learn from it at the same time, I started looking at web design blogs and they were all talking about the importance of creating table free designs. I had come in half way through and missed out on the establishing discussion so I was somewhat mystified and I ended up posting to my LJ saying "What is it about table-free design? Why is it good?" People linked me to a couple of posts and I got started from there and was converted pretty quickly.
I feel like I'm in a similar place when I ask the question "What is the point of fanfic archives?" If I've got a DW account with all my fic on it tagged under fic, do I need an AO3 account? What's the motivation behind building AO3. I feel like there are historical reasons for this stuff that I, so far, don't get. Anyone suggest where I can get started finding out? I am asking from a genuine desire to learn - I like the design and I've uploaded a couple of stories, but I'm not sure I have figured out the reasoning behind it yet.
I feel like I'm in a similar place when I ask the question "What is the point of fanfic archives?" If I've got a DW account with all my fic on it tagged under fic, do I need an AO3 account? What's the motivation behind building AO3. I feel like there are historical reasons for this stuff that I, so far, don't get. Anyone suggest where I can get started finding out? I am asking from a genuine desire to learn - I like the design and I've uploaded a couple of stories, but I'm not sure I have figured out the reasoning behind it yet.
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Date: 2010-03-19 04:51 pm (UTC)Just skimming by, so apologies if someone else has a better answer...
A long long while back I was involved in a particular fandom, left, changed computers several times, moved twice, lost floppy disks (it was a looong time ago), re-discovered said fandom but with a different group of people, found floppy disks but had no way of reading them since any computer with a floppy drive had long since been retired, and knew there were a couple of things I'd written that I really wanted to dust off and clean up. Luck would have it that two of those stories had been archived off a mailing list, and voila! Back in action. It's doubtful that either of those stories would've been missed by fandom, but I was happy to have them back, and I really didn't have to search too hard to find them, not like scrolling through years of mail list posts, since this was pre-journal days.