While I'm not sure how much participation someone would get if they said "this site goes away when I get hired for coding," they'd get plenty with "I stop updating when I get hired, and hand this over to whoever volunteers to maintain it." It's not like there's any shortage of nitpicking hecklers beta-testers in fandom.
But the authors would want to know that's the reason for the site--it tells them that the structure could go through occasional large changes, and that minor changes will happen on a regular basis, so don't get too attached to any one feature, and so on.
And if it's a commercial venture, designed to make money from ads--again, we can deal with that, but have to think about how it affects what we can post and say. (Even without sexually explicit fic... can you post a story about Dr. House-hates-Pepsi next to a Pepsi ad?)
I'm very happy with OTW's approach, and I trust the people involved--I know that what they want in an archive is essentially what I want: a stable place to host fics of all types, and navigability that makes it easy to find what you like and skip what you don't. And I know they want that as fans--as people who'll be actively using the archive they want to build. (Or rather, the archive they want built, and have given up on hoping that anyone else is going to build it.)
The Fictionaire thing... he's not saying why he's making it. I don't trust claims of altruism, or "I love fannish culture so I thought I'd make an archive/social network site for it." There's a long track record of non-fen botching fannish projects because they don't know what the important features are (like, umm... no word counts on the stories? No warnings for squickable concepts?).
And this one... umm, he needs a beta reader. "Star Trek Atlantis" is one of the TV show options.
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nitpicking hecklersbeta-testers in fandom.But the authors would want to know that's the reason for the site--it tells them that the structure could go through occasional large changes, and that minor changes will happen on a regular basis, so don't get too attached to any one feature, and so on.
And if it's a commercial venture, designed to make money from ads--again, we can deal with that, but have to think about how it affects what we can post and say. (Even without sexually explicit fic... can you post a story about Dr. House-hates-Pepsi next to a Pepsi ad?)
I'm very happy with OTW's approach, and I trust the people involved--I know that what they want in an archive is essentially what I want: a stable place to host fics of all types, and navigability that makes it easy to find what you like and skip what you don't. And I know they want that as fans--as people who'll be actively using the archive they want to build. (Or rather, the archive they want built, and have given up on hoping that anyone else is going to build it.)
The Fictionaire thing... he's not saying why he's making it. I don't trust claims of altruism, or "I love fannish culture so I thought I'd make an archive/social network site for it." There's a long track record of non-fen botching fannish projects because they don't know what the important features are (like, umm... no word counts on the stories? No warnings for squickable concepts?).
And this one... umm, he needs a beta reader.
"Star Trek Atlantis" is one of the TV show options.