Archive of Our Own VS SquidgeWorld Archive

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 / 20 days ago

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

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

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

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

Visiting Squidgeworld and seeing what they have. Source: 10 months ago

There's also Squidgeworld, which runs on the same base software that AO3 does (it should look fairly familiar). There's nowhere near the number of fics that other archives have, but that just means your stuff will be more easily seen by whoever stops by to check things out. Source: 10 months ago

AO3 is open-source. I know it's down but plenty of people have apparently grabbed the source-code. There is SquidgeWorld which used AO3's source-code so at the very least ao3 users could congregate there if AO3 gets taken down. Source: 10 months ago

SquidgeWorld is based on the AO3 codes but a separate site. Source: about 1 year ago

SquidgeWorld is set up like AO3 now, though it doesn't get the traffic it did way back when. Source: about 1 year ago