Admin: NFE Discussion and a Poll
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narniaexchangeHello, folks! Now that the Big Bang is completed, your mods have been discussing this summer's Narnia Fic Exchange.
We're considering moving the NFE off Livejournal to the Archive of Our Own. For those of you unfamiliar with AO3, it's a multifandom archive that hosts fanfic, fanart, podfic and fanvids.
One thing the AO3 does is host fic exchanges (two big ones are Yuletide and Remix Redux). I help in modding Remix Redux, and I have noticed how it makes things easier, in terms of modding, by hosting the exchange there.
Two main reasons we are thinking of moving:
1) Authors would be responsible for formatting and uploading their fic by deadline.
2) The ease of dropping out for participants.If the NFE is on AO3, people would not have to contact us, all they would have to do is click a button and they would drop out and we would be automatically notified.
Other things we can do at AO3: we can reveal one story a day, just like we do on LJ. There's an option to reveal all the stories at once, but most people seem to like the reveal of one fic a day. We can also do automated matching for writers and recipients, and assign pinch-hitters for defaulters.
The AO3 staff have answered a few questions I have had already about the exchange, and I have been playing around with creating the collection and seeing how to manage it.
And if you don't have an account on AO3, don't worry about it - I can request account codes for all the people who need them. I feel like we could have a good experience on AO3.
The biggest concern I see about moving off of LJ is that people don't like change. I understand! I do not like change myself! But this is a post for discussion and questions, so if you have other concerns, you can bring them up here.
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We're considering moving the NFE off Livejournal to the Archive of Our Own. For those of you unfamiliar with AO3, it's a multifandom archive that hosts fanfic, fanart, podfic and fanvids.
One thing the AO3 does is host fic exchanges (two big ones are Yuletide and Remix Redux). I help in modding Remix Redux, and I have noticed how it makes things easier, in terms of modding, by hosting the exchange there.
Two main reasons we are thinking of moving:
1) Authors would be responsible for formatting and uploading their fic by deadline.
2) The ease of dropping out for participants.If the NFE is on AO3, people would not have to contact us, all they would have to do is click a button and they would drop out and we would be automatically notified.
Other things we can do at AO3: we can reveal one story a day, just like we do on LJ. There's an option to reveal all the stories at once, but most people seem to like the reveal of one fic a day. We can also do automated matching for writers and recipients, and assign pinch-hitters for defaulters.
The AO3 staff have answered a few questions I have had already about the exchange, and I have been playing around with creating the collection and seeing how to manage it.
And if you don't have an account on AO3, don't worry about it - I can request account codes for all the people who need them. I feel like we could have a good experience on AO3.
The biggest concern I see about moving off of LJ is that people don't like change. I understand! I do not like change myself! But this is a post for discussion and questions, so if you have other concerns, you can bring them up here.
[Poll #1837632]
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