#Also also apologies if this all sounds weirdly stilted there is no deeper meaning to that beside that I naturally type that way haha

[wingedmenace]

I've caught up a bit on the AO3 (and specifically, PAC) situation recently. I won't indulge too much in my own opinion of the matter— but this does seem like it will equate into a shift in fandom, even as a smaller one.

Ah, the point is: I hope MCYT as a community takes this chance to figure out some way to create a smaller (well, relatively speaking) MCYT centered archive. I think doing something like that would help with the problems around tagging (wallet/personal nicknames alongside internet names, since all of it is treated like RPF) as well as the problems in the overlap of characters (i.e. a streamer can play two different characters under the same name, and there's no good way of differentiating them without also tagging fandom), separating RPF v edge cases v fully within fictional universe fics (I cannot imagine how hard it is to find RPF fics about the actual streamers for those that are interested in that…), and many others slipping my mind right now. Since the archive, being under the control of people more intimately connected to the inner workings of the fandom it's hosting– as well as not having a predetermined way of creating tags– could better meet people where they want to be.

Not that I'm saying that this would be an easy feat, nor one that will absolutely happen. AO3, although it was originally meant to be forked, has a case of bad spaghetti code (or at least, I've heard it has) and only really has one notable fork even after all these years… I'm not sure how many small archives with good tagging there are to take inspiration or pointers from anymore, besides that. And as a smaller archive there's no way for the tagging to be as robust as AO3 without also employing the use of tag wranglers… which would be hard for an up and coming small project to do.

Eh, well, this is getting long. That's all my rambling for the day. If you're interested in creating your own personal archive you can check out this tutorial on dreamwidth by melannen on making one via neocities. Cheers.