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an-ruraiocht · 2 months ago

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sometimes it's like. i don't really wanna have an opinion about this in public because i don't feel that strongly. but a lot of people are having ill informed opinions about it and i don't feel i can offer correct information without also an opinion. so i just have to suffer

#this is about nanowrimo lmao #having been involved with nano for fifteen years i can promise it was always a website/organised thing #and there WERE reasons for the website to exist and the community of the forums was a huge part of it #now they totally fucked that up a few years back but originally it was a massive part of it #especially bc when i joined nano twitter was like... barely a thing?#there were so few ways of finding a writing community at the time #very few wordcount trackers you didn't have to build yourself in excel etc #it had reasons to exist at the beginning. i would argue it has much less reason to exist now #but it wasn't a subsequent 'cashing in' on a concept #anyway.#the reason i don't have strong opinions about the current fuckery beyond an eye roll #is that i already walked away from being invested in nano because there has been So. Much. Fuckery #this is a nail in a coffin I'd already accepted was buried #and i get that people are more likely to care about the ai thing #as like. symbolic of wider societal issues or whatever #vs grooming and harassment and racism and firing all the MLs #bc that affects people in the community much more than people inside it #but. look. if you're gonna expound upon it #consider that nanowrimo started in 1999 and forums were THE way to connect with people online #and the website as it grew in the 00s primarily revolved around the forums #and continued to do so through the 2010s #and that no it wasn't just a social media challenge bc social media didn't exist yet #there IS a reason nanowrimo has a centralised website and organisation #it wouldn't exist without them #bc I can't be arsed to explain this again #*more than people OUTSIDE it

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