A Poll For Readers Of Fanfiction

I've just been updating my website, and moving things to AO3, and contemplating fic archives. I've had fic on mailing lists, on fandom archives, on LJ and DW and JF, on sites run by other people who requested to archive my fic, and served as .txt files on my personal website. I think. There could be more. Of all these places, as a writer, I prefer AO3 - it's easy, it gives me control, everything is in one place, it forces me to be organized and to standardize headers. It has the awesomeness of LJ's comment system while being tailored specifically for fic, not for freeform entries. You can connect stories easily, as series or as remixes, and the collections are great.

But these are all mostly good things for writers, and that got me thinking about the actual reading experience. I also like to read on AO3, because I support its principles, and also because of things like the collapsible comments section and loading multi-chapters in a single page. The search/filter feature and the bookmarking could be a lot more functional, but it's better than most. But there are lots of other good places and ways to read fic, too, and I'm curious. Hence: a poll.

ETA: Just to clarify, if you both read and write fic, please try to answer only from your perspective as a reader.

ETA2: Non-DW users, login here with OpenID to fill out the poll.




Please feel free to elaborate in comments. And I'd love for this to get linked far and wide!

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