That things have to be for everyone really hurts small archives or forums from springing up.
Absolutely. One of my primary fandoms is Tolkien and pretty much only a handful of our archives are still around and an even smaller amount are active. I've seen, both openly and implied, the attitude that there is no point to posting on those archives because AO3 exists.
And yeah, my time in post-Prequels Star Wars was on a forum. It still exists-- it's connected to what once was the main fan site-- but it's dead quiet compared to what it used to be in the mid 2000s.
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Date: 2021-06-25 02:23 pm (UTC)Absolutely. One of my primary fandoms is Tolkien and pretty much only a handful of our archives are still around and an even smaller amount are active. I've seen, both openly and implied, the attitude that there is no point to posting on those archives because AO3 exists.
And yeah, my time in post-Prequels Star Wars was on a forum. It still exists-- it's connected to what once was the main fan site-- but it's dead quiet compared to what it used to be in the mid 2000s.