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Fanfiction readers struggle to find and keep track of stories

Fanfiction readers can struggle to find stories matching specific preferences or recover a fic they remember only vaguely. They also ask for easier offline and audio reading, while some authors want better ways to hide or retire their works. These are related gaps in fanfiction discovery and reader-side tools, though the signals do not establish that one feature would solve them all.

For fanfiction readers and authors. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to Aug 2026 on Bluesky, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.

8 different people described this problem in 8 separate discussions.

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  1. there was this vashwood fic i read awhile ago that i really liked, i think it may have been one of the first vw fics id read, and like vash was a vampire and ww was a carpenter living in a cabin iirc? and i really loved the writing style but i havent been able to find it again and it drives me crazy
  2. Does it support http://fanfiction.net/ ? I never found an easy solution for that one
    Mkengine on Hacker NewsOct 2024Asked for a tool
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