(10-29-2018, 07:27 AM)robkelk Wrote:(10-28-2018, 11:43 PM)LilFluff Wrote: Looking from the outside it seems to me it's basically surviving in much the way FurAffinity does for furry art, "Well yes, our management regularly punches itself in the face, but no one else is even a fifth of our size so where else will you go if you want an audience?"
Which is how AOL has survived for so long.
Less snarkily, nobody remains the biggest forever.
Yeah, about a third of the new fanfic I read is on AOOO or Twisting the Hellmouth now. A third is Spacebattles/Sufficient Velocity. A third is fanfiction.net.
The latter is shrinking over time.