The Coal Game

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We're scrolling
And watching coalies make errors
The most pathetical errors!
We're watching experienced coalies
Who stayed up all night tracking a source in its original Latin
Up, writin'
And writin' bad!

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Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

FF is going under in the near future methinks

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

Oh God the wank when Ao3 inevitably opendoorses FFN.

I shudder to think.

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, this is glorious. Preparing the popcorn.

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I keep hearing of the near demise of FFN and yet FFN is still going well.

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

here's to ffnet outliving ao3

mostly joking I hope for both sites to last a long time yet

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

+1

There are good things about FFN!

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I want to like ffn but the last time I went to read there the inline text ads made it literally impossible to get through a story. :{

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

I don't wish to be glib, but why don't you use an adblocker?

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

because I read fic on my work computer at work where I can't

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

okay that's the glib answer, but really if a website isn't functional without an adblocker you can't really defend it as a functional website.

but also online ads basically come in two types: reasonably well-behaved ads on websites I actually want to support; and fuck you anyway I don't need to go to your shitty website. so I haven't bothered with one on my home computer either, I just block the things that make up shitty websites whether they are ads or not. (ff.net won't load any fanfic pages at all with 'deeply shitty web design' blocked, sorry ff.net fans.)

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

NC +1 I've never bothered to get an adblocker either, and I think my reasoning is similar to yours. If the website is so bad that I need an adblocker to read it, I'm just going to avoid that website entirely. I'm fine with pages that have ads that aren't completely obnoxious.

Re: Predictions for the future of Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I would be less surprised to see AO3 implode one day from a catastrophic accidental fuckup than FF.net go down permanently. But I'm not exactly staying up at night worrying about either happening any time soon.