Once again, lost against AO3

[wiseheart]

I don't know how other people manage to post their stuff to the dratted archive. I simply can't. There was a time when I could copy & past my one-shots from FF.Net, but FF.Net has blocked that possibility, and when I try doing the same from a word document, the site strips all the formatting from the document, including the line breaks.

Now, I really, really don't have the time to reformat every single piece to be able to post it to AO3. Meaning that I'll have to give up on the idea of posting to the archive. Which is annoying, because most people go there to read, and being restricted to FF.Net - the only multifandom archive I can actually use - my chances to gain new readers are like null.

I HATE, HATE, HATE TECHNOLOGY!!! Why must they always change anything? Why is nothing really compatible with anything else in these days?

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I for my part find AO3 confusing as hell, even as a reader. If there weren't the storyfinder comms where people give you the URL, I would never find any story there. Plus, they accept real person fic, which I find questionable, to say the least.

You are right about the mass of crap on FF.Net, of course. But even after the "updates" that only made things worse, it is the easiest archive to handle for techno-wheenies like me. Nothing can beat uploading ready-made documents directly from your PC.