Thoughts on AO3

The Archive Of Our Own beta has been running for just over a week now. (I'm assuming that anyone reading this who cares already knows what AO3 is. But just in case you haven't, here's the official site from OTW. The Fanlore page also has a good collection of links. The short version is that it was created as a response to Fanlib.)

Thanks to my OTW membership, I got in on the first day and have been playing with it since. I've uploaded 21 fics as of this writing, including all my FFEX stories and almost everything from 30_fantasies. Still deciding what all to upload. I don't think it's going to be every last story -- that's what my personal archive is for -- but I'd like it to be a broad cross selection.

FYI, the FFX-2 section is kind of sad right now (17 stories, of which almost half are by me!), so I really encourage all you X-2 people out there to request an invite and get posting!

( Here's my quick first take. )

So, safe to say that the good definitely outweighs the bad so far. It will definitely be replacing FF.net for me, although that's an easy choice since I'm not uploading anything there these days, except for "Aftermath". I think it's unlikely to replace LJ, at least for shortfic, and I will almost certainly keep up my personal archive. Which means that I'm still decided exactly how AO3 will fit into my fannish life. But I think there's an excellent chance that I will find a place for it. So far, so good.