Yeah, sorting and organizing. Basically, on a large multifandom, multi-user archive, I'd want certain franchises/meta-fandoms split differently than on a personal site where I can just type a short paragraph about why things are combined/separated/sorted/you can find x over y.
That makes total sense ^^ I also really like that freedom of sorting! Before I made my site, I saw someone posting about theirs and going "oh hey, I can make up my own sorting system" and that was one of the things that nudged me towards making my own personal fanworks archive. You can arrange things however you like!
(I'm still debating things like whether I want to split Fantastic Beasts off from Harry Potter and how I want to arrange Marvel - it comes down to number of fanworks more than anything. If I've only got a couple of works for something, I'm more likely to fold it into a bigger fandom than split it off.
I was debating lumping all my Yuletide works together as a set, but then I realised that almost all of them are for fandoms I've written for elsewhere, so they can sit in bigger categories with the exception of one!)
(Yeah, I have, like, Transformers on one hand, and a lot of Gundam on another... But the nice thing is that if I get it all done and realize it doesn't work, or if I want to split it off later, it's just a new page and copy-pasting some HTML over and changing a couple links. It's... not that big a deal, really.)
I get that! I'm always telling myself that I can just change things around later if I want to.
I also had the crucial revelation the other day that - wait for it - I can link a fic page from multiple places. *galaxy brain image* So I can put something in both a Yuletide section and a fandom section if I want to!
Ha! I had this beautiful revelation recently, too, though mine was in relation to crossovers. On my old site, I just had a page for crossovers but... I can actually just... link them from both pages. Ha!
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Date: 2024-05-25 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-25 12:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-25 12:13 pm (UTC)I was debating lumping all my Yuletide works together as a set, but then I realised that almost all of them are for fandoms I've written for elsewhere, so they can sit in bigger categories with the exception of one!)
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Date: 2024-05-27 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-06-01 08:19 am (UTC)I also had the crucial revelation the other day that - wait for it - I can link a fic page from multiple places. *galaxy brain image* So I can put something in both a Yuletide section and a fandom section if I want to!
Very excited to sort my fics now xD
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Date: 2024-06-02 03:38 am (UTC)