Over 4000 stories for ENT on the Warp 5 Complex alone, over a six year period. And those are just the ones that ran on the Yahoo groups IIRC.
No, we did a bunch of acquisitions to get the het and gen. reedfem was pretty instrumental in a lot of that. I agree that the slash is from the list.
We also occasionally troll ff.net, and I watch ASCML to invite the few ENT authors I haven't heard of to post to W5C. We're at 3903 stories right now; we had more than 4000 at the old archive, before we moved to the new software, but some were duplicates, and some were multiparters that are now in one easy-to-read chaptered document. That's just under 4000 stories in the years since the show aired in 2002. Contrast this with Wraithbait, in the SGA fandom, which has 5332 stories since the show aired in 2004. However, we also don't have the total crap that goes with a huge fandom, which is nice, and yes, the writing is on the whole very good.
When I rec'd ENT fic for [Unknown site tag], I checked all the links of the old commentary and of the previously rec'd stories. All the fic archives except for two were DEAD, including the biggest het archive (Linguistics Database (http://judy.jteers.net/lingdata/fanfiction/), which took all the fic down during a URL name change and has been under construction since 3/2006). Of the rec'd stories, more than a third were broken links. I commented on those recs with new links and the authors updated a lot of them next time they rec'd. I invited LD to W5C but the person who ran it did not want to do that.
In short, old fandom = broken links and missing fic.
Re. FanLib, I figured they had to have some kind of relationship with The Man if they were offering up their little goodies. ST has little understanding of its fans, and FanLib has little understanding of the people it's attempting to exploit for gain. The only good that's going to come out of this is the discussion, and the awareness among fangirls that the content they generate may be perceived as valuable.
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No, we did a bunch of acquisitions to get the het and gen.
We also occasionally troll ff.net, and I watch ASCML to invite the few ENT authors I haven't heard of to post to W5C. We're at 3903 stories right now; we had more than 4000 at the old archive, before we moved to the new software, but some were duplicates, and some were multiparters that are now in one easy-to-read chaptered document. That's just under 4000 stories in the years since the show aired in 2002. Contrast this with Wraithbait, in the SGA fandom, which has 5332 stories since the show aired in 2004. However, we also don't have the total crap that goes with a huge fandom, which is nice, and yes, the writing is on the whole very good.
When I rec'd ENT fic for [Unknown site tag], I checked all the links of the old commentary and of the previously rec'd stories. All the fic archives except for two were DEAD, including the biggest het archive (Linguistics Database (http://judy.jteers.net/lingdata/fanfiction/), which took all the fic down during a URL name change and has been under construction since 3/2006). Of the rec'd stories, more than a third were broken links. I commented on those recs with new links and the authors updated a lot of them next time they rec'd. I invited LD to W5C but the person who ran it did not want to do that.
In short, old fandom = broken links and missing fic.
Re. FanLib, I figured they had to have some kind of relationship with The Man if they were offering up their little goodies. ST has little understanding of its fans, and FanLib has little understanding of the people it's attempting to exploit for gain. The only good that's going to come out of this is the discussion, and the awareness among fangirls that the content they generate may be perceived as valuable.