Question to those leaving the AO3: Your plans for future exchanges, fests, etc?

[brightknightie]

I will be voting in the upcoming OTW election. I've never voted in one of these before. I've almost always been eligible, because I've almost always been lucky enough to be able to donate each year (marked in memory of Abby, tv_elf). But I was a poor fannish citizen and trusted blithely that people who know much more about it than I do would keep it running well for all our good. I would never neglect my vote for government that way; I should have behaved better for fandom.

That said, I am not at this time considering abandoning use of the AO3, though of course I've observed that some of you are doing so. If you feel it's something I should consider for myself, that I would do it if I better understood the situation, please do help me understand better. I'm overwhelmed by it all after having paid no attention in years past. I really hope that people better informed and equipped than me will be able to ensure efficient, sustainable operations in line with all our values.

That said, I am wondering:
Those of you who are ceasing to use the AO3, I presume that you will still post about your own new works here on DW, so that I can still learn of them that way. What are your plans for future exchanges, fests, ficathons, etc.? Are you planning to participate only if they run elsewhere than the AO3? If you run any yourself, are you planning to run them here on DW as we used to run them on LJ and DW before the AO3? Are you planning to run them in decentralized ways, where everyone posts wherever she likes best and you have a central link list?

Thanks!

Addendum, 6:58pm: If this is news to you, celli recommends this post by umadoshi and kalloway recommends synonymous.

Comments

[kalloway]

I haven't ruled out ever posting to AO3 again and I'm leaving my fics up for the time being.

That said, I've made an account at Squidgeworld and am pleased with the ease and transparency of communication over there. I'm also planning to archive to a DW comm and I've made a Neocities to replace my old website. I honestly feel that I never should have been relying on just one website, but it was also so very easy. ^^;;

Fests and whatnot will be on DW. I've already done a little exchange on SqWA and it went well, so I'll keep an eye out for things running over there but I don't think it'll ever get a ton of traction and that's okay. I'm certainly not going to judge anyone still using AO3; I just personally feel that until they do better, I can't in good conscience post there. I have a lot of hope for the incoming Board, though, and truly wish them luck with being able to make some deep structural changes.

ETA: also read through synonymous if you haven't, it's incredibly thorough documentation of the last couple months of peeling the onion and finding a hundred more onions to peel.

[brightknightie]

Thank you very much for helping me understand what you're planning! Your posts have been some of those that led me to realize that I needed to ask this question across all the folks I follow.

And thank you very much for the recommendation; no, I have not yet read that (though you are one of two people this evening that I've seen recommend it!).