Obsidian Fire
Ahk Morn!
- AKA
- The Engineer
AO3 has modern things like custom tagging and filtering by tags. And their search engine got a huge update a month or two ago for filtering out content you don't want to see. And it's a lot easier to do custom edits and reading styles. And you can do things like download PDFs and E-Reader formats of fics. And comment easily on fics. It's just a way more modern website and is being actively updated.
FF.net is still in the days of "pick two genres and four characters from a drop-down list" and it still has crossovers in their own section. Yeah. It's just not up to modern internet standards anymore. Filtering for things you want to see/not see feels so clunky comparied to AO3. I barely use it anymore because finding things on it is so much more difficult then it is on AO3. And the few authors I still follow form my FF.net days are now all on AO3 too. For them, publishing on AO3 is much less of a headache then FF.net is.
I'll just put it this way, Adult content has never been my cup of tea. But it's so easy to make it all disappear on AO3 that I don't really care about it being on that site. And it is much easier to make everything I do want to see not get filtered out.
FF.net is still in the days of "pick two genres and four characters from a drop-down list" and it still has crossovers in their own section. Yeah. It's just not up to modern internet standards anymore. Filtering for things you want to see/not see feels so clunky comparied to AO3. I barely use it anymore because finding things on it is so much more difficult then it is on AO3. And the few authors I still follow form my FF.net days are now all on AO3 too. For them, publishing on AO3 is much less of a headache then FF.net is.
I'll just put it this way, Adult content has never been my cup of tea. But it's so easy to make it all disappear on AO3 that I don't really care about it being on that site. And it is much easier to make everything I do want to see not get filtered out.