March Meta Matters Challenge, Check-in 3

[yourlibrarian]

Hello everyone! It's check-in time again to see how we're all getting along with our meta importing.

Comment below with any of the following:

1) Do you know of any ways to promote meta you've copied over? If so, share your ideas!

2) Did you write new meta based on the last post's prompt? Share it here! Or if you didn't, share a link(s) to a work that you've recently relocated that you'd like to get more eyes on.

Please don't hesitate to do self-promotion! Anyone participating in or following this challenge is doing so because meta interests them. So it's very likely someone would like to check out those works.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I am glad I can say that I have been making progress. I've now gone through all of my 2020 entries and am several months in to 2021.

This has gone a bit slower than expected because I was finding more content I hadn't yet copied over. This a bit puzzling at first but then I realized that, when the challenge started in 2020, I had still been figuring out how to organize the works. So some content was getting written even as I hadn't yet begun to archive those strands of posts.

I still think I can catch up to 2023 this year, but I'm less sure now that I'll get through 2024 as well. A lot will depend on how often I posted. I should have remembered that 2020-2021 were very active years online!

And speaking of activity, although I was not able to write new meta for the prompt, I will share this piece which I had to update a bit for the transfer. It's on a topic I think anyone here could weigh in on, Fandom on Dreamwidth: https://squidgeworld.org/works/72780

What's interesting is that since that post was written I have noticed a definite dropoff in readership here which I think may have a lot to do with people changing their habits post-pandemic, and which may signal another chapter in the fandom + Dreamwidth partnership.

[impala_chick]

Are you copying everything from AO3 to Squidge World?

And are you talking about a dropoff in the use of Dreamwidth? Just anecdotally I thought my f-list/feed has been more active lately with new comms & challenges popping up.

[yourlibrarian]

I copied everything from AO3 to SW a few years ago and deleted a good deal of what had been at AO3. My main task is to copy content from Dreamwidth to SW. So right now everything pre-2021 is backed up in at least 1 other place.

To be sure the fandom calendar community stays very busy! Lots of activity being linked there. However I can tell that readership is down for my own account and there have been conversations at Pillowfort about the same thing happening despite the site continuing to grow.

I find it particularly noticeable because there was a lot of activity in 2020 yet as 2021 goes on I notice it decreases. And these days there isn't much for my posts.

[impala_chick]

Nice work backing everything up.

Oh I see, I wonder if that has something to do with the state of world affairs right now. I haven't had much energy to journal so I've just been popping in to do certain fandom things (like this challenge!).

[22degreehalo]

:') Years ago I wrote a meta that I got super passionate about and which was effectively almost done until I checked in with canon and confirmed some things, and a few months ago I finally committed to finishing it off and confirmed canon was exactly as I'd written it... but when I went back to check it, no matter how hard I tried, I could only find the first half or so of the meta. (5k out of 10).

I'm still in mourning over that tbh....... maybe I'll find an opportunity this month to get back into it and rewrite it? I still mostly remember the points I was making and I think it's something I could get really worked up and passionate about again if I immersed myself in once more...

[yourlibrarian]

Oh no! Your comment was a good reminder about doing extensive editing in the AO3/Squidge posting form, because it does not save your work. I was editing a fairly long post a few days ago and remembered that I needed to save the progress elsewhere. I've lost things too 😞

Hopefully the challenge will get you on track with finishing that up. Sounds like you still have a fair bit of it, so good luck!

[impala_chick]

I cross-posted my meta about the costumes Catherine wears in The Great here at historium. And I finished my meta RPF post about Austin Butler x Callum Turner at my journal, which I also cross-posted to Tumblr :D Feeling productive so far.

[yourlibrarian]

Ooh, opening a tab for it. And yay for productivity!