Good icon. :D Mm, not read any MFU fic in ages, must check some out. It was my first fandom from when I was tiny.
I'm in an older fandom too, The A-Team. Small but active, and like you we've got an established and active central archive, people post on FF.net and there's a number of smaller personal archives and several Yahoo groups. There's only 3 TAT fics on FanLib right now.
I looked at FanLib when it first appeared and read the T&Cs and went, "okay, put the internet down and back away slowly", then started following this comm and the controversy in general and saw I was right not to sign up there.
Like the OP says, it doesn't seem likely to be much use to any fandom that's not "current". Even the people likely to go there looking for fic don't seem to generally be the ones who might be looking for older and/or more obscure fandoms.
It might be useful for FanLib to have our stories on there, just to boost the numbers, but how useful to us would it be? Unless you post a story exclusivly on there the readers have probably already seen it elsewhere, so you're not increading the readership.
I say leave it to the kids and their current stuff that everyone will have forgotten about in ten years time.
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I'm in an older fandom too, The A-Team. Small but active, and like you we've got an established and active central archive, people post on FF.net and there's a number of smaller personal archives and several Yahoo groups. There's only 3 TAT fics on FanLib right now.
I looked at FanLib when it first appeared and read the T&Cs and went, "okay, put the internet down and back away slowly", then started following this comm and the controversy in general and saw I was right not to sign up there.
Like the OP says, it doesn't seem likely to be much use to any fandom that's not "current". Even the people likely to go there looking for fic don't seem to generally be the ones who might be looking for older and/or more obscure fandoms.
It might be useful for FanLib to have our stories on there, just to boost the numbers, but how useful to us would it be? Unless you post a story exclusivly on there the readers have probably already seen it elsewhere, so you're not increading the readership.
I say leave it to the kids and their current stuff
that everyone will have forgotten about in ten years time.