Tumblr has evolved as a culture of ephemerality, in which commentary is given in the tags and therefore erased with each reblog This, this, this. By trying to accomodate tumblr tagging culture AO3 completely fails to understand why it evolved to be that way and why it only makes sense on tumblr. AO3 should get over its ridiculous identity crisis, take a good long look at its name and decide to be an archive and not this strage blogging site hybrid it currently is. (So far I can't even get my fanworks archived there, which is ridiculous.) I'm sure that the tumblr users that have not used an archive before will be able to deal with the learning curve if given real guidelines.
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Date: 2012-10-23 12:32 pm (UTC)AO3 should get over its ridiculous identity crisis, take a good long look at its name and decide to be an archive and not this strage blogging site hybrid it currently is. (So far I can't even get my fanworks archived there, which is ridiculous.) I'm sure that the tumblr users that have not used an archive before will be able to deal with the learning curve if given real guidelines.