Fandomnews

[alias_sqbr]

So metafandom recently has had lots of discussion about the recent lack of meta (in general and on metafandom specifically) Which is kind of an amusing negative feedback loop but hey.

Anyway, various people floated the idea of a more inclusive dw specific (fanfic) fandom meta community. Another suggestion was a "latest posts with a meta tag" feed, which inspired me to put "meta" into the search engine.

I found many of the same posts I'd just read, some fic, and...fandomnews

"Awesome!" thinks I. "And it's just been started, presumably inspired by these discussions. I wonder if it's skuf or one of those other people who was talking about it? Is it very popular yet?"

But as it turns out, the creator, and thus far only member..is purplepopple aka Laura Hale.

This will end well.

Comments

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

Hi!

For what it's worth, I'm a co-mod on FandomNews, which is mirrored on LJ and IJ as well as its DW incarnation. We've been starting to get a few readers, which makes us happy.

I will just say, the intentions with starting FandomNews are things some of us have been talking about for some time, and it just seemed as though the time was right to launch it. We wanted to have a meta/news link community which would try to cover as many viewpoints as possible and try not to have obvious biases; one that would not be limited to LJ/IJ/DW postings, and would cover areas of fandom which normally have not been covered by metafandom (such as sports fandom, music fandom, etc.)

I'd be happy to answer any concerns or questions as the current FAQ for the comm is still being developed as it gets underway, and we're working out questions of what kinds of content do and don't qualify for inclusion in our link round-ups.

[alias_sqbr]

I think the idea is sound, it's a good time to launch it, and I have no obvious complaints with what I've seen of how you're running it.

But after everything that's happened I cannot help but feel..I'm not sure dubious is the word I'm looking for.

Anyway, I still wish you luck with it.