New AO3-related community

[hope]

I've just created ao3_collections, a comm on LJ for Archive of Our Own users to promote their new Collections.

*snips from mod post*

The purpose of this community is to provide:

a) a place for Collection owners to promote their new collections to potential contributors and readers,

b) a way for writers to keep up with Collections they may want to contribute to, and

c) a way for readers to keep abreast of the Collections being formed.

There's a feed for it on Dreamwidth, too: ao3_collections_feed.

Please spread the word to anyone other AO3 users you know!

Comments

[anatsuno]

Is it okay if someone creates a similar/sister comm on Dth? I'm not so much using new comms on LJ anymore.

[hope]

Sure! I thought about doing that, but wasn't sure... if someone posted in both places then it's kind of spammy for someone reading in both, and there's no way to mirror communities the same way you can with crossposting.

Ultimately I decided on LJ because pretty much everyone on Dth has an LJ, which means there aren't as many issues for having an account to post on, and I created a feed to Dth for people who wanted to read there instead - the closest I could get to mirroring content.

[anatsuno]

I care less about mirroring content and more about creating an ecosystem of active communities locally on dth, though - so I tend to discard mirroring-maximizing solutions in favor of the ones that maximize my strategy *g*

Anyway, now yours is in place, we can have both! I'll see if I have the energy later to create a sister-comm. *has breakfast for now*

[hope]

Haha! good point. In theory, I totally want to do that too. But I care too much about immediate success, and know that there's a huge number of people on LJ right now that'll use it. I'm a bad early adopter.