Archive of Our Own VS SquareSpace

Archive of Our Own Reviews

SquareSpace Reviews

1. Team Wisdom    

   Small business Owner at SmokeHub | over 1 year ago
   Offers step-by-step video training to build website

   It has a sleek interface that makes it a simple platform to use.

   Squarespace enables non-programmers to create user-friendly websites. To assist novice users, the site offers step-by-step video training, which is amazing...

   🏁 Competitors: QPe

Archive of Our Own mentions (627)

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Design should be based on functionality, not anti-fugliness. In my experience, design considerations should come after building a successful growth "feedback loop." (Or whatever you want to call it.) At that point, you may decide making your website look "polished" isn't even necessary. IMDB was certainly quite ugly for a long time.... - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• For a few times I’ve seen comments that this fanbase is small. How/why?

  On Archive Of Our Own , the theme for International Fanworks Day 2021 was fandoms/relationships that aren't well represented on the site. Based on an idea I'd had going back to 1992, I picked Mariah Carey and wrote this story. There are only 11 stories/works) about or involving Mariah on the site. Hell, she's been around 33 years and her first name still gets the red squiggle under it, meaning her name... Source: 5 months ago

• Larian romance stats vs AO3 stats

  It's the top-10 romantic relationships written about BG3 characters on AO3, the largest fanfiction website on the internet. Source: 5 months ago

• Larian romance stats vs AO3 stats

  For those not in the know, AO3 (the ArchiveOfOurOwn) is the largest (I think?) fanfiction website on the internet. Its interests are pretty different! ;). Source: 5 months ago

• Best Spuffy long fics?

  Elysian Fields is the place for Spuffy fanfic! I recommend doing an Advanced Search - you can search for and sort by word count, likes, etc. (similar to Archive of Our Own, also a place with Spuffy fics but not quite as user-friendly as EF). Source: 5 months ago

SquareSpace mentions (36)

• Best website builder?

  I highly recommend Squarespace, DM me if you want me to share some of my client's finished websites. Also, I am happy to answer any of your questions for free. Source: 11 months ago

• Squarespace is Hijacking my links

  I recently moved my website to squarespace and have added several text boxes with links to other pages on the site. However after clicking save and then testing the links, they always resolve back to squarespace.com. Upon reviewing the links they have been converted back to squarespace. Any advice? Source: 12 months ago

• Blogging help: How to start from a scratch?

  Or, you can try something like squarespace.com as well. Source: about 1 year ago

• SNI Dynamic Certificate

  I'm pulling my hair out here. Websites like wix.com, squarespace.com ...etc; can generate websites on the fly and still use SSL on every one of the millions of custom domains. Source: about 1 year ago

• Horse pics: now with anatomical cutaway!

  Are you selling this on your squarespace.com account? Source: about 1 year ago