Subject: Things that might not be helping
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Posted on: 2019-10-08 20:40:00 UTC

A big one is that we're hard to find. My main example here is that most of our stuff for the last few years has been on Google Docs. This is the opposite of discoverable for people on the internet.

I'd actively encourage people to, for example, go and post their back catalogs on AO3 (especially given that they don't have FFnet's anti-sporking policy and won't have one as a matter of meta-policy). Maybe not all at once, so it's easier to maintain attention, but still.

Another thing is that, due to the above, we've lost the steady stream of younger folks who have more time to write stuff, and that's creating a cycle of lack of engagement (as Ix alluded to). I don't think this will lead to the downfall of the PPC or anything, but I do think that, for example, we should be actively making our existence known in places where writers and fan-folks are. We used to have (from what I can tell) things like a noticably actively LiveJournal community, but that site died a bit under a decade ago and we don't have a replacement PPC space elsewhere on the internet.

Anyway, these are my preliminary thoughts on the situation.

- Tomash

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