Dreamwidth & AO3
Jan. 27th, 2010 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfI have to say I'm impressed - both with the improvement AO3 seems to be over most other archive formats I'm familiar with, and with the ease of importing my LJ including, well, very nearly everything except for PMs apparently, to DW.
Can I re-import my LJ at a later date, btw? Because, for the time being, I'd like my main journal to remain here on LJ (because imports don't work the other way around) but I'd also like to keep a more or less up-to-date backup on DW. And since there is no automatic crossposting from here to DW, it seems the only way to do that would be to re-import my LJ to DW periodically...
I love the tags options on AO3. I'm the type of reader who often looks for something fairly exotic, so the most common genre classifications etc. often don't really work for me. I'm not really looking for slash, or het, or even gen; despite my angst icons, even angst doesn't really describe my preferences that well. I like subsets of fics that often cut across those categories. But if people really take to the tagging system, there's a real chance that I may eventually be able to find stuff that fits my preferences via tags. Yay! Love the tags, people - use them! Make life easier for people like me. ;-)
I also love the bookmark option, and the comments function. They obviously tried to create an archive with the added benefits of the most fannishly useful features of LJ and del.icio.us....
How well-accepted is AO3? Remember, I've been out of the loop...
Can I re-import my LJ at a later date, btw? Because, for the time being, I'd like my main journal to remain here on LJ (because imports don't work the other way around) but I'd also like to keep a more or less up-to-date backup on DW. And since there is no automatic crossposting from here to DW, it seems the only way to do that would be to re-import my LJ to DW periodically...
I love the tags options on AO3. I'm the type of reader who often looks for something fairly exotic, so the most common genre classifications etc. often don't really work for me. I'm not really looking for slash, or het, or even gen; despite my angst icons, even angst doesn't really describe my preferences that well. I like subsets of fics that often cut across those categories. But if people really take to the tagging system, there's a real chance that I may eventually be able to find stuff that fits my preferences via tags. Yay! Love the tags, people - use them! Make life easier for people like me. ;-)
I also love the bookmark option, and the comments function. They obviously tried to create an archive with the added benefits of the most fannishly useful features of LJ and del.icio.us....
How well-accepted is AO3? Remember, I've been out of the loop...
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Okay, I've gone and suggested that...
Date: 2010-01-28 03:47 pm (UTC)BTW, retagging my own stuff right now, and found these tags for you:
"secret relationship"; "sexual identity"; "break-up"
If you also want to tag minor things that may nevertheless be major kinks for some people: "sharing a bed"; "shower sex"... You might also want to tag Appearances with "hospital", even if it's only a fourth or so of the fic.
I noticed there's also decade tags, so you could also tag stuff "1970s", unless that's considered redundant in LoM.
I think I've discovered a good method to go about this tagging thing, btw. One of these days I'll go through the entire tags list and pick out all the tags that could possibly apply to fic of mine, and make a list of those - and *then* I'll go and apply that narrowed-down list to my fics. It's far too much work to go through the entire mammoth list again and again for every fic I upload...