Archive of Our Own and Other Blatherings

[alixtii]

So I posted my dw_femslash fic to the AoOO, with fake cuts pointing to it from my DW/LJ/IJ/JF and from dw_femslash itself. Largely this was because somehow it ended up with a lot of crap HTML (I think I'm going to go back to composing in Semagic until Dreamwidth introduces draft functionality, even though I'm not posting from Semagic anymore since DW has its nifty crossposter) and I had to fight to get it formatted correctly for AoOO and I didn't want to have to do all that again for Dreamwidth/LJ/IJ/JF.

Partly also because my shiny new AoOO account is shiny and new and I wanted to test it out. I don't expect to start posting solely to AoOO as a general rule anytime soon, though.

I spent most of today getting my fic up onto AoOO. I have to say that it's the most pleasant uploading experience I've had with an archive: the Rich Text Editor actually seems to understand what I want the text to do and does it. (I do wish it would auto-format line breaks the way DW and LJ do, though.) Most of my fic's there now, with three exceptions: 1) fic written for yuletide, 2) Buffy/Angel fic, and 3) Firefly fic. 2 and 3--or really just 2 by itself, even--are pretty significant exceptions, though.

I have an invitation to the AoOO to give out if someone wants it (and they should!).

Comments

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The archive is still in beta, no? Then you should definitely mention your complaint in their suggestions section. Formatting line breaks is very easy to do in most coding languages, I doubt ruby is any different. And it should definitely be available as an option just like LJ - so the end user can tick/untick a simple box to request that line breaks be formatted or not.

I'm actually slightly concerned by the accessibility implications that such a fundamental thing hasn't been built in from the start - it implies a very worrying attitude because it means they haven't even considered the implications of the difference between the line break tag and the paragraph tag.