But it looks like the complaint by some authors that AO3 is relatively dead compared to FFN depends on what metric you’re looking at. Your hypothesis that kudos are easier to leave than favs because you don’t need an account seems borne out by the fact that kudos are given in higher numbers than any of the other metrics. I looked at these across 10 of the biggest fandoms on FFN and/or AO3 (Harry Potter, Naruto, Twilight, Inuyasha, Glee, Avengers, Supernatural, Sherlock, and Teen Wolf): I decided to look at how the main three approval metrics on AO3 (kudos, comments, bookmarks) compare in usage to the main three approval metrics on FFN (reviews, faves, follows). ![]() (Previously, I’d looked at AO3 popularity metrics and gotten lots of reblogs saying that AO3 is “dead” compared to FFN). Time to revisit popularity metric comparisons between the two platforms. That means it functions more like AO3 bookmarks than kudos. Oh, interesting! Thanks for this insight I hadn’t realized you have to log in on FFNet to favorite something. On AO3, folks besides the author do see your kudos – but If I understand right, you’re saying that the difference is they have to go to the work page, instead of seeing them all on your user profile? That is very different – from both kudos and AO3 bookmarks (which can be private)! No wonder people use favs differently from kudos. I did note in the full set of slides (on AO3) that favs also act like bookmarks, but maybe I should call this point out more strongly. Thanks for sharing the extra context! I haven’t used FFN enough to know the subtleties (I have posted there as an author and have lurked as a reader, but have not really used favs). Plus, I’m pretty sure there’s a limit on the number of favs. Nobody, apart from the writer of a fic, knows you’ve left a kudo. IMO, FFN Favs are more like AO3 bookmarks because they will appear on a different page on your profile, and will be public. I use both AO3 and FFN, and I don’t equate AO3 kudos with FFN favs. Will post an update if/when I get authentication working to get the private ones as well. That might not be exactly what anon in the ask wanted, but it’s a potential solution? Once you’ve got URLs, it’s pretty straightforward to plug them into Calibre/FanFicFare and get that to download local copies of each fic. The setup to get this to run might be challenging for someone who doesn’t already have Python installed but hopefully not TOO hard? ![]() Not done yet, but I’ve got it doing public bookmarks and outputting URLs so far. (cc: yeah, that method does sound challenging – but thanks for the insights! <3 Hopefully there will eventually be a simple backup solution. You’d have to make it authenticate as yourself, though, to see the private bookmarks.Īnd yes, I would love a simpler “backup” button to move them all to Pinboard, but we don’t have one yet. If you’re savvy enough (I’m not), it could even automate it and skip forward pages. The sort order in the Library window is for viewing purposes only, and will not be reflected in the Bookmarks sidebar, menu or button.I and my 1200 bookmarks agree, The only way I can think of is to scrub the Bookmarks pages by loading them and scrubbing the HTML for content by using the css ids in the html code and passing it out to a json or xml.
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