Advice on posting Chaptered Fics to DW?

[haunted_cherries]

Heylo everyone, and happy Friday Eve!! I've been posting fic and screeching around on DW for a while now, so much so that I've made the decision to transfer most (if not all) of the fic I've posted on AO3 to here!!

The snag I've run into is that I DO have quite a few chaptered fics that I've written, and I was wondering if anyone had any advice on some ways that folks have posted chaptered fics to DW? I did a search and couldn't find much of anything for this specific scenario, so figured I'd ask here just in case! Thanks in advance!! ^ o^)/ 💕

EDIT: Thanks so much for all the input thus far, everyone!! abyssal_sylph shared this post from amiserablepileofwords , so I'm linking it here just in case it can help others who stumble upon this post!! Cheers! ^ __^)b

Comments

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but what did AO3 itself change? <<

They changed the rules in the user agreement, then demanded that everyone sign the new one. Since then, if I try to look at the site, all I see is that demand notice, not any content. The same has happened to other people. I've seen others say that you can read content without being a logged in current member, but then some of those have later clarified, "Well, you do have to sign the form once." Which means being a current member. It may be that some other people are still able to see content without being a current member, but if so, that number is smaller than it used to be. Because of those effects, I wouldn't call it as accessible an archive as it used to be.

This is separate from authors having the option to lock their work to members only, which they always had; but if what an author wants is to reach as many people as possible, that's much less feasible now.

>>I don't know how much good it would do to lock your works when they've already been scraped<<

It would make it harder to steal things again in the future. But realistically, nothing online is secure. It is merely harder or easier to access.

Re: Thank you!

[drinksglue]

Ah, I see. I guess that's all the encouragement I need to continue crossposting on my Neocities too, and not just Dreamwidth. Might also do SquidgeWorld Archive as an additional backup, since I haven't heard anyone having any issues with accessibility there. Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

You're welcome, and thank you so much for spreading your work around.

I've been in fandom long enough to have seen many, many losses of work in massive swathes every time a popular platform collapses or locks to members only. :(