Read: The fan-fiction friendship that fueled a romance novel empire. A fan-fiction site is a uniquely energetic learning environment. Davis, along with her University of Washington colleague Cecilia Aragon, recently spent nine months studying a couple of fan-fiction websites, focusing mostly on young authors writing on fanfiction. Older, more experienced fan-fiction authors tend to prefer the website Archive of Our Own.
Reviews of fan fiction are overwhelmingly positive—Aragon and Davis found that out of a sample of 4, reviews on fanfiction. We don't have to recover from holiday travel because we have all been at home, as we have been every goddamn day for what feels like years.
People have so much time to actually finish the shows you start watching, if one has become a particular comfort and you've watched it all, seeking out fanfiction might be a new way to prolong that pleasure. I got into fanfiction during the long waits for new Harry Potter books, reading novel length fiction that I'd eventually like more than the actual series. If you're new to Archive of Our Own, I hope you discover your own longtime, beloved fanfiction, like my personal favorite Harry Potter fic, the Shoebox Project , or at least enjoy the latest chapter of Heat Waves.
Sign In Create Account. Don't worry Heat Wave fans—it's not just you. January 8, , pm. Tagged: YouTube fandom Minecraft archive of our own. Net's actions, saying "All FF. In response to the purge, users flocked to other sites and archives. AO3 experienced down time as the site's servers could not handle the additional load from FanFiction.
Net users, generating a number of 50 errors at the height of the problem. The site's parent organization, Organization for Transformative Works , not mentioning server problems on their Dreamwidth account, updated their website six days ago to discuss the situation. The traffic increase came on the back of Quantcast -reported increase earlier in the year, 57, visitors at the end of April, up from 40, at the end of March.
Alexa reported a big drop in traffic for the archive the day of the purge and traffic has subsequently remained at above average before FanFiction. Net purge levels. This matches other organizationally reported increase. AO3 took measures to reduce server load such as disabling tag filtering, improving statistics caching, turning off alphabetical listing of users, suspending the ability for people to request invitations to and from the site. Even before FanFiction. Net's adult content purge, AO3's invitation code queue exceeded 17, Net users like fujiwara-nanaho registered for Dreamwidth in case FanFiction.
Net removed their content. No problems were reported by Hurricane Islandheart on MediaMiner. Org, an anime-centric fan fiction site popular in the mid-'00s that is largely absent of moderators at the moment. The site saw an increase in traffic earlier this year, going from 24, at end-December, according to Quantcast, to 58, visitors at the end of March this year.
According to Tikatu, a member of FanFiction. According to Tumblr users, having been created in response to the purge, the site swelled to over a thousand users including a number of Tumblr users like bluelilacflame, konata-the-espeon and getwhatyouwantorjustgetold. Have an opinion on this story?
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