Story Tags · 8:56pm Nov 10th, 2015
This website is great. You can post your works, people can comment, say what they liked or disliked, what you can improve, all that stuff. You can read other people's stories, and you can comment on them. There's the "Also Liked" and "Related" things where you can see other stories similar to the one you just read. There's the featured thing, where you can find good stories based on what everyone else recommends. There's the groups, where you can find certain kinds of stories, and there's the user page, where you can recommend stories, blog about stuff, and tell a little about yourself. However, the thing I kinda dislike about this website is the tagging system.
I'm not new to fandoms and fanfiction. Before I got into MLP, I was really into Homestuck. And it wasn't just the comic itself that I liked so much; it was the fan-made content as well (it's the same with MLP). So, naturally, I read a lot of fanfiction. And I mean a lot. While I don't read as much Homestuck fanfiction as much anymore, I still remember what it was like trying to find good fanfictions on sites like fanfiction.net. I don't even think there's a tagging system at all (other than what fandom the story is from). But then there was archiveofourown.org. I fell in love with that site's tagging system, because you made the tags yourself. The author tags the story with whatever tags they think the story should be tagged with. And people could just click on a tag, and it would show you all of the stories with that tag. This allows for people to find stories with what they're looking for with ease. They can also search with multiple tags, like this site, except there are so many more tags. One reason I'm so frustrated by the lack of this feature on this website is because of the presence of the groups. As far as I know, you can't search for stories through groups. If you could use groups as tags, that would be great! But you can't. I just really wish that the tagging system here was like archiveofourown's. Or at least that you could use groups as tags when searching. To be honest, I actually would prefer to use archiveofourown to find fanfictions, but most of the pony fanfics are here, and the site does have some good things. I just feel like it could be improved. It would also be great if you could comment on blog posts.
Could someone please point me in the direction of the suggestion box on this website? That would be great.
Until next time,
Some Random Brony Online
P.S. How ironic is it that when I posted this, I forgot to add the tags?