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I love AO3, but I don't enjoy going through my AO3 bookmarks because they're such a mess. I assume I could organize them, but I'd naturally still be confined to the structure and layout of the site itself.
In contrast, the biggest freedom of personal sites has imo always been the self-determined structure. With fic rec/bookmark lists specifically, it's how you separate, order, tag and mark things that makes it personal (and fun). Not to mention that especially with comments,
they act as a personal archive of things read... and may thus incite one to read more (personal collection/stash)?
This is all just to say, I am tempted to set up more fic rec pages in the future. Separate pages may be more or less appealing than a central fic rec hub depending on whether or not I want to fool around with graphics/coding for specific subjects. Since they'd be pages with ongoing additions, they'd also make for relaxing side projects (similar to fanlistings).
@lethe I agree about AO3. I’m grateful it exists and I do bookmark but I don’t like the site’s UI so I never ayuda any notes to them and finding anything again is super hard. Like you said, I need something organized according to what I want, where the information that I find useful is front and center.
I really need to set up that fanfic recs site. Although to be fair it would be more a personal bookmarks site that others could use as recs
@gekidasa I never took a deep look at the interface, partly due to laziness (+ I don't read fics regularly), partly because I know I'd order it differently, but it has always bothered me that the filter sidebar doesn't show ALL elements, not even all the fandoms I have bookmarks for. (I assume you're supposed to set up your own collections.)
@lethe I appreciate the filters’ existence but it’s not how I would design it and I don’t think it’s the best UX 