I don't think further complaints about FFN are really on-topic here, but I would like to say that "offsite websites can't automatically archive the stories" is in my book a GOOD thing--I emphatically do not want random websites pulling my story text and wouldn't sign up on a website that permitted that kind of scraping by default. I archive deliberately and in places where I have control over the text.
Unless you're talking about the ability to import your own stories yourself from one site to the other, but even then, I think to avoid making plagiarism super-easy you'd have to have a system set up so the accounts on AO3 and FFN would have to link to each other, and that would require a lot of inter-site cooperation.
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Carmarthen Sun 17 Mar 2013 03:53AM UTC
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