To AO3 or not to AO3?

[primsong]

Poked around AO3 a little bit last night to see what all the hoopla is about - it appears to be a fairly decent archiving site, but can anyone tell me if they've found it worth the time to copy their works over to it? Is it just re-inventing the wheel and having a reunion of the same folks we already know and love from Teaspoon and/or ff.net or have you found new readers coming out of the woodwork?

Whyfor? Can anyone tell me what makes it different/better/worth the time? Thank you!

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[dbskyler]

I have adblocker on my browser and also stay well away from FF.net, so I'm not very qualified to answer this. I've never come across any, if that helps.

[juliet316]

I ask because FF.net has for years been where I've posted all my non - Who stories (my Who stories I've just posted on LJ and Teaspoon thus far), and since now it's admin seemingly doesn't care or deletes stories for arbitrary reasons. Plagiarisers can use the site without reprecussion unless their found out by fandom (that's where the little prick who stole one of my Doctor/Donna stories posted his word for word version last year), and it's littered with pop - up ads and spywhere now (and FF.net's own pop - up blocker only works for one day before you have to go back and reutlize it). If AO3 has none of that, I would more than consider moving.

[dbskyler]

I've never heard any complaints about anything like that on AO3. It's a site that's run by and for fanficcers, so I suspect they'd take a plagiarism charge very seriously. Invite codes are free (you just have to ask, then wait your turn), so you might want to try it out and see if you like it there.