Sticking with it is excellent and it is sometimes very neat to have copies of your work from earlier, even if you think of them as "my, that's definitely my earlier work," for that very reason of being able to say "wow, I've come a long way since then, and I can see how well my craft has improved by doing all of this and practicing with all of these works that I've put out since."
The FFN experience sounds pretty difficult to have to navigate. And we hear you about the problems that AO3 and the OTW is having, but even then, they're still better than what has been in the past and the alternatives that are around. It would be much nicer if their code was easily replicable across the Internet, though, so that we could have AO3 and all of our other archives all around the Internet.
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Date: 2023-07-06 05:52 pm (UTC)The FFN experience sounds pretty difficult to have to navigate. And we hear you about the problems that AO3 and the OTW is having, but even then, they're still better than what has been in the past and the alternatives that are around. It would be much nicer if their code was easily replicable across the Internet, though, so that we could have AO3 and all of our other archives all around the Internet.