Run Away! Run Away!

[emgeetrek]

Area 52, the Stargate Slash Archive.

I've had the "Recent Stories" page bookmarked for eons, and I check it often.  It's just been redesigned, and I do not have the words to express my horror.  How many more unnecessary, irrelevant, unreadable, color-challenged and distracting elements can they put on that page?

And if that weren't bad enough . . . a few notable entries aside, the sheer awfulness of most of what's shown up there lately is serious cause for despair.  The latest outrage, as framed by the most recent iteration of the page:  two different authors, one of whom has definitely been around long enough to know better, who have failed to grasp the notion that British English and American English are not the same, and that Americans do not wear singlets, or speak of their arse, or use biros.  (And there's no such thing as a "postrate gland"--yes, spelled the same way twice--but that's a different rant.)

I would give up on the site were it not for the fact that occasionally I do find a decent story there that doesn't show up in any other venue.

Topic for discussion, should you so choose:  is the story quality at Area 52 declining, or is it just that I'm getting pickier?

Comments

[tejas.livejournal.com]

UGH! I hate the new Area52 design and I told them that. :-) I do post my slash there (though I think I may be behind on that) as well as on The Alpha Gate. I don't have any interest in maintaining my own site and since I sometimes write very long stories, I'd rather not post those on LJ at all. I'm one of those who'd rather have a monster story at my finger tips in with a single click... I'll just make sure to block out a day or evening to read it all. ;-)

And welcome to LJ! :-)

[emgeetrek.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the welcome! Good to be with y'all!

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I noticed you've got a fun group already on your flist. :-)

[emgeetrek.livejournal.com]

Oh yes indeedy. ;-) Lots and lots of interesting reading!