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Snowflake Challenge #4
Jan. 8th, 2022 01:45 amChallenge #4: In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, and/or that you'd like someone to create or do for you.
The first wish I can think of is for more (and new) reccers to sign up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fanart_recs. The comm always has had at least a few recs every month since I started it in 2010, because there's a core of dedicated members, who rec frequently, which is awesome, but more recs would be even better.
Another vaguely rec related thing, I wish everyone on AO3 would use the bookmarking feature (and let them be public). Obviously what I really miss is having more rec pages, but considering that I've abandoned mine, that would be a bit hypocritical. But browsing somebody's bookmarks is really useful too, and unlike maintaining recs, it's almost no effort.
A rather unrealistic general wish is that newer fandoms I've become interested in would also happen here on DW? I never got into Reddit, and while I subscribe to some people on Twitter I find its use for fandom even more bewildering than Tumblr. And I have no idea how to even find whatever is going on with Discord (and never really was much for chat type of interactions).
I don't know whether it's my increasing age or the changes in the internet landscape, but I find it much harder to find and enter a new fandom than it used to be when fandom spaces were on newsgroups, mailing lists, message boards, and eventually LJ (which I resented for quite a while, initially).
There used to be primers you could find for new fandoms, pointing you to where the fandom was. Like newbie pages, or a list of popular mailing lists, that kind of thing. I miss those.
The first wish I can think of is for more (and new) reccers to sign up for
fanart_recs. The comm always has had at least a few recs every month since I started it in 2010, because there's a core of dedicated members, who rec frequently, which is awesome, but more recs would be even better.Another vaguely rec related thing, I wish everyone on AO3 would use the bookmarking feature (and let them be public). Obviously what I really miss is having more rec pages, but considering that I've abandoned mine, that would be a bit hypocritical. But browsing somebody's bookmarks is really useful too, and unlike maintaining recs, it's almost no effort.
A rather unrealistic general wish is that newer fandoms I've become interested in would also happen here on DW? I never got into Reddit, and while I subscribe to some people on Twitter I find its use for fandom even more bewildering than Tumblr. And I have no idea how to even find whatever is going on with Discord (and never really was much for chat type of interactions).
I don't know whether it's my increasing age or the changes in the internet landscape, but I find it much harder to find and enter a new fandom than it used to be when fandom spaces were on newsgroups, mailing lists, message boards, and eventually LJ (which I resented for quite a while, initially).
There used to be primers you could find for new fandoms, pointing you to where the fandom was. Like newbie pages, or a list of popular mailing lists, that kind of thing. I miss those.