[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Dot Warner]

My 2 cents:
1) Advertise our existence.  There's always a need for creative writing workshops, and we provide a service that virtual walls like FF.net, Tumblr, or message boards don't really have because their infrastructure and culture doesn't support detailed unsolicited criticism.
2) The current user interface is perfectly serviceable.  In email, you can give feedback by the word if you wanted to.  A custom web-based software with equivalent functionality would have to be able to support the equivalent of Microsoft Word's comment system, and that would get complicated, not to mention expensive to create and maintain.
3) At some point we might want to think about expanding our scope even more.  The genres that are allowed on FFML is now a much tinier subset of fanfiction than it was back in Ye Olde Days of Ye Interwebs.  Of course, I'm biased because my current fandom is Team Fortress 2, so I can't get feedback from this list on the rare occasion that I do have the time and energy to write.
4) Speaking of time and energy, life happens, and the activity level of the FFML reflects that.  The average age of the list is positively ancient as far as the internet is concerned.  Most of us have families and/or full-time jobs.  A lucky few of us have become published and are too busy making our own sandboxes to play in someone else's.

-"Dot"
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I'm my own mind-altering substance. 8)