Where do you write and read?
For the past 13 years I’ve been writing on Archive of Our own (Ao3) because it has a much broader set of T&C than most others, and quite a few others have crashed and burned.
But where do you read? And write?
Downloading everything as EPubs (yes, Virginia, it is possible to download from Fanfiction.net) and reading offline. The result is I really don’t care that much, where the EPub in question comes from.
And yes, a lot of it I “read” via TTS on my Android phone. And yes, I prefer AO3 commenting system with threaded replies.
My favorite site to read is ao3, if I got back into writing I think my favorite place would be Sufficient Velocity simply for the feedback.
I am not a fan of fanfiction.net, for a number of reasons. The site keeps turning off email notifications and some stories I just flat out never get notifications for, I dislike how it is laid out even.
I started on FFN with my original fandom, but I moved over to AO3 in probably…2016 and haven’t looked back. I love it because I can download the .epub file and read on my phone/tablet/computer (Apple ecosystem) and it’s great for preserving my favorite stories.
I started out on FFN but later I switched exclusively to AO3. FFN has barely any spam removal, ads, content purges, very limited formatting, doesn’t allow to reply to comments in a way that is visible to all readers… No thanks.
I’m predominantly on Ao3 rn, but I am working on crossposting to SquidgeWorld slowly. Don’t read much on SW since the amount of fic is still low.
SquidgeWorld?
The written archive of squidge.org, squidgeworld.org
Ive been in the habit of scraping fanfics from their respective websites and reading them in .epub format in my reader app (Moon reader).
It makes it easy for me to use TTS to listen to them while driving.
I read on FFN, AO3 and occasionally a few other sites on desktop and phone. On my Kindle Paperwhite, strangely FFN doesn’t work for me so I use primarily AO3 and download azw3 files from them to read the fics more comfortably, it works marvellously.