😃 For me, at this stage, if Severus finds something to amuse himself with/about in the current situation, that's probably as much of a win as he can hope for. But I'm incredibly partial to an amused Severus, so...
We are slightly "cheated" out of Crabbe et al's POVs by the fact they don't have memories of the events. Draco knows most of what took place, Theo puts some of it together thanks to the note from Draco's mum, but the other three have precious little to go off of (although Vince has a few vague hints), and if anything, that tends to make people even less inclined to feel guilty, especially when punishments are being meted out. (The Poste Serpentes help balance that out some, but still. It becomes something you have to intellectually remind yourself of as opposed to *feeling* you deserve a thing. That's never as robust.)
AO3 seems to have addressed some of the things that upset me (having subscriptions count against you was particularly evil), which is nice. It's always good to see progress. It still doesn't seem to have found a way to combat the web crawlers and artificially inflated hit counts for pornographic content, and for me, that's a serious issue (I want to see "G" rated works prosper as well), especially in a climate where AO3 is increasingly taking a monopoly position and more and more alternatives are collapsing under the threat it poses. (Resources are finite, and everyone is competing for the same ones, be it readers, authors or donations. It starts with simple things like: why is the formatting to upload a story to AO3 different to what I'd need here or on DW or even FFN? When time is limited, does an author do different versions? Or do they ultimately go with the site that gives them more readers/comments/kudos?)
While I love to bits that AO3 functions as a life raft for things that would otherwise get lost as sites fold in the natural progression of things, it's reached a point now where they are contributing to that folding in a nontrivial way, and frankly, I don't think monopolies have ever been wise. Especially, as I said, when their system artificially boosts only a segment of the market, arguably often of less creative worth. (Extremely poorly written porn - even purely nonsensical copy pasta (and that's not hyperbole) - will generate more traffic from the crawlers alone, that in turn makes it more likely to surface in results and get actual readers. It's seriously demotivating for people who write purely fluffy stuff, and a highly questionable site design choice.) There are more sensitive ways to deal with that, but the damage they're doing doesn't seem to have registered with them yet. And so I keep up my one woman crusade, tilting at windmills... lol (It's going swimmingly. 😉)
But beyond all that, I really, *really* love the individual chapter tags to little tiny bits. 😊 Adding to those slowly but surely. When I'm done, it should be possible to read the Severus & Crooks buddy story with just the click of a tag...
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We are slightly "cheated" out of Crabbe et al's POVs by the fact they don't have memories of the events. Draco knows most of what took place, Theo puts some of it together thanks to the note from Draco's mum, but the other three have precious little to go off of (although Vince has a few vague hints), and if anything, that tends to make people even less inclined to feel guilty, especially when punishments are being meted out. (The Poste Serpentes help balance that out some, but still. It becomes something you have to intellectually remind yourself of as opposed to *feeling* you deserve a thing. That's never as robust.)
AO3 seems to have addressed some of the things that upset me (having subscriptions count against you was particularly evil), which is nice. It's always good to see progress. It still doesn't seem to have found a way to combat the web crawlers and artificially inflated hit counts for pornographic content, and for me, that's a serious issue (I want to see "G" rated works prosper as well), especially in a climate where AO3 is increasingly taking a monopoly position and more and more alternatives are collapsing under the threat it poses. (Resources are finite, and everyone is competing for the same ones, be it readers, authors or donations. It starts with simple things like: why is the formatting to upload a story to AO3 different to what I'd need here or on DW or even FFN? When time is limited, does an author do different versions? Or do they ultimately go with the site that gives them more readers/comments/kudos?)
While I love to bits that AO3 functions as a life raft for things that would otherwise get lost as sites fold in the natural progression of things, it's reached a point now where they are contributing to that folding in a nontrivial way, and frankly, I don't think monopolies have ever been wise. Especially, as I said, when their system artificially boosts only a segment of the market, arguably often of less creative worth. (Extremely poorly written porn - even purely nonsensical copy pasta (and that's not hyperbole) - will generate more traffic from the crawlers alone, that in turn makes it more likely to surface in results and get actual readers. It's seriously demotivating for people who write purely fluffy stuff, and a highly questionable site design choice.) There are more sensitive ways to deal with that, but the damage they're doing doesn't seem to have registered with them yet. And so I keep up my one woman crusade, tilting at windmills... lol (It's going swimmingly. 😉)
But beyond all that, I really, *really* love the individual chapter tags to little tiny bits. 😊 Adding to those slowly but surely. When I'm done, it should be possible to read the Severus & Crooks buddy story with just the click of a tag...