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[soc_puppet]

My kingdom for a way to differentiate primary ships from secondary and background ships on AO3 🙄 I keep running into one that's not a NoTP, but also definitely not ever something I want to read as the primary focus of a fic. Meanwhile, fans of side-pairings that are popular in the background but not as often in the foreground are usually stuck sorting through dozens and dozens of fics with a given fandom's Uber-Ship that happens to have their preferred ship paired up on the side, and summaries aren't always as helpful as they could be in denoting who, exactly, a given fic is actually about.

Anyway, that's my tiny gripe for the day. I'd say to tune in next time, but I've no notion when that'll be, so I guess you're on your own.

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[alexseanchai]

but media hosting on AO3?

*is helpful*

[soc_puppet]

Nope, that's a solid third on my list of priorities.

Better tagging would be better tagging options, and at least seems feasible.

Better media hosting abilities/interface on Dreamwidth would encourage people to use it as a platform, and to grow as a social hub.

I love AO3, but it's not meant to be a social platform; it's meant to host content. DW is meant to be a social platform, and lack of good media interface is what's keeping it from being a more widely used social platform.

If there were a way for AO3 and DW to team up and figure out media hosting issues together, especially with easy cross-posting, that would blow all other pipe dreams out of the water.

[alexseanchai]

oh gotcha

(where my thought is AO3 is meant to be an archive and therefore AO3 being able to host shit, not merely link to or embed shit hosted elsewhere, is more important than DW being able to etc)

[soc_puppet]

DW doesn't necessarily even have to host more media (though they do already have some capacity); I just want it to be easier and more intuitive for new users. My priority is blatantly and transparently to lure a greater number of Tumblr users and fans on other social media sites over here, because this is the style of platform that I like, but as you've pointed out before, they ain't commin' without better image interface.

AO3 already has fandom's attention. Expanding their services would be incredible, but I still want a place to be social with other fans, and Tumblr... is not idea, for that place.

[alexseanchai]

true true true!