Date: 2021-01-15 10:29 pm (UTC)
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
From: [personal profile] igenlode
I felt it was a bit unfair to post the stories as new works when a lot of people have probably seen them already; however, I experimented with using the 'import from URL' feature to import a multi-chapter story from its Dreamwidth posts rather than re-converting the text to HTML a chapter at a time from my original word-processor document, and that coincidentally turns out to pick up the DW publication dates. So I have a test case to check against ;-)

(Possibly not the best test case, since the "Les Miserables" stories were among those that frequently got no traffic at all on FFNet, so getting no traffic on AO3 either doesn't necessarily demonstrate anything...)

As a posting process I don't think it actually saves any time -- I deliberately chose a short two-chapter story to test with in case it didn't work out, and although it did work I still had to do a lot of editing on the imported text, not least in order to strip out all the blog-style material surrounding the actual chapters. I recycled some of that as AO3 'notes', but it would really have been easier to start with a freshly-converted HTML file; most of the upload time is spent on trying to establish what the appropriate fandom tags etc. are (and trying to use Google Search previews to track down my original summaries, which I assumed would be in the document files but weren't!)

So given the difficulty of locating a set of chapters for a specific story on Dreamwidth anyway, I think I'll just go for uploading them as new stories and one at a time. It's just as well my fanfics tend not to have all that many chapters...


Newly-discovered (and probably connected) issues with AO3 and my browser; I can't dismiss the 'new user' banner, because clicking on "Dismiss permanently" ( https://archiveofourown.org/users/Igenlode/end_first_login ) redirects to an authentication error, and attempting to edit logged-in comments has the same effect. However, I can't edit comments I leave here (possibly for the same reason) and I'm used to living with the 'Please enable JavaScript' banner, so I can cope with another one as a permanent fixture :-p
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