I am a serial monogamist when it comes to fandoms so I am often NOT following as the vids are announced and by the time I find them, they are long gone. I'm stretching a bit when if comes to my fandoms, but I'm also pretty much a monogamist too, so even if there are other fandoms I'm currently interested in, it's pretty much just one that gets my attention, I would like to think though, that I could go back and enjoy those fandoms later if I decide to, I'd hate to think that my chance is gone. Also, word on vid links going up. In my first fandom, one of my favourite vidders didn't have a webpage, so I'd constantly want to rec her works, but she wouldn't have working links! It drove me crazy, because people were missing out on how awesome she was (well, she still is :)
Even if the vid is still there, tags really aren't sufficient when it comes to hunting them down. God, I know my own tags aren't sufficient. I started on LJ before there were tags, I think all but two of my vids were posted before there were tags. I have a "My Vids" tag, but I don't think it actually has all my vids on it. I figure since I have a link of my webpage with each vid, and in my user info that people can just go there, others though, don't have either.
Because of these two issues, I don't watch many vids anymore unless someone recs one to me, even though I love them. Me too, and it makes me so sad to see that.
as long as the author creates a master post and updates it, LJ works rather well. The problem is that many don't do that. Word. And also, it helps if their fic list is somewhere prominent, like the webpage link in their info, or the first post on their LJs.
I hate how archives have gotten a bad rap. It really is bad. I mean, the more people that think that way, the more likely it is to *be* that way. If most people won't post their fics there, well, then we're not going to be getting the variety that makes fandom fun.
I honestly would rather search through an archive of badfic for one good story than try to find it on LJ. Why? Because I can find exactly what I'm looking for without having to search Google, del.icio.us, storyfinders and everything else I can think of with a ton of variations in spelling, pairing etc. and still not find what I'm looking for. Yes! That's the thing! A lot of archives are easier to search, especially if you're not completely sure of your facts. If all you remember is that someone is turned into a penguin, well, pop penguin into the archive search engine and you're good to go. Even if the archives search engine isn't that awesome, get Google to search that page (god I almost cried with joy when I found the "search term site:www.whatever.com" ability on Google.) A lot of people have their journals set to block search engines. Also, with the way LJ URLs are now username.livejournal.com it's not really possible to search all of LJ that way. And LJseek kind of sucks. You know, after making this post, I realized, I had never seen a storyfinders comm before I came over to LJ. Sure on some of the fic comms I'd occasionally see a fic search, but sgastoryfinders gets updated multiple times a day and is actually one of the busiest SGA comms on my flist, what does that say about the search ability of things?
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Hi! :)
I am a serial monogamist when it comes to fandoms so I am often NOT following as the vids are announced and by the time I find them, they are long gone.
I'm stretching a bit when if comes to my fandoms, but I'm also pretty much a monogamist too, so even if there are other fandoms I'm currently interested in, it's pretty much just one that gets my attention, I would like to think though, that I could go back and enjoy those fandoms later if I decide to, I'd hate to think that my chance is gone.
Also, word on vid links going up. In my first fandom, one of my favourite vidders didn't have a webpage, so I'd constantly want to rec her works, but she wouldn't have working links! It drove me crazy, because people were missing out on how awesome she was (well, she still is :)
Even if the vid is still there, tags really aren't sufficient when it comes to hunting them down.
God, I know my own tags aren't sufficient. I started on LJ before there were tags, I think all but two of my vids were posted before there were tags. I have a "My Vids" tag, but I don't think it actually has all my vids on it. I figure since I have a link of my webpage with each vid, and in my user info that people can just go there, others though, don't have either.
Because of these two issues, I don't watch many vids anymore unless someone recs one to me, even though I love them.
Me too, and it makes me so sad to see that.
as long as the author creates a master post and updates it, LJ works rather well. The problem is that many don't do that.
Word. And also, it helps if their fic list is somewhere prominent, like the webpage link in their info, or the first post on their LJs.
I hate how archives have gotten a bad rap.
It really is bad. I mean, the more people that think that way, the more likely it is to *be* that way. If most people won't post their fics there, well, then we're not going to be getting the variety that makes fandom fun.
I honestly would rather search through an archive of badfic for one good story than try to find it on LJ. Why? Because I can find exactly what I'm looking for without having to search Google, del.icio.us, storyfinders and everything else I can think of with a ton of variations in spelling, pairing etc. and still not find what I'm looking for.
Yes! That's the thing! A lot of archives are easier to search, especially if you're not completely sure of your facts. If all you remember is that someone is turned into a penguin, well, pop penguin into the archive search engine and you're good to go. Even if the archives search engine isn't that awesome, get Google to search that page (god I almost cried with joy when I found the "search term site:www.whatever.com" ability on Google.) A lot of people have their journals set to block search engines. Also, with the way LJ URLs are now username.livejournal.com it's not really possible to search all of LJ that way. And LJseek kind of sucks.
You know, after making this post, I realized, I had never seen a storyfinders comm before I came over to LJ. Sure on some of the fic comms I'd occasionally see a fic search, but