Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.85.205.56-20200122134236/@comment-35006067-20200123220752

Fluid-decanter wrote: Your view of Ao3 seems oddly dismal to me. Yes, there are many stories there but that's true for any popular fiction site. It is always possible for someone to look specifically for fandoms they want to read about, and I would be surprised if that's not the main way readers interact with the site. Let's me rephrase it that way: On AO3, it's rare to encounter a story from a non very popular fandom if you didn't explicitly search for that fandom. This can happen, if you filter on non fandom specific tags for example, but you have to dig a bit.

HF is objectively extremely inferior as an archive (no tagging system, catch-all categories like "Anime & Manga"), but, sometimes, you can randomly find a story from a fandom you hadn't thought about in a while just sitting there in the "Recent Chapters" of the front page.