The arrogance of waltzing into any group and announcing that you’re there to show them how it should be done, and oh by-the-way they’ll be working for you now, is beyond belief. But to compound it by abusing the very people you’re supposed to be winning over? *shakes head*

Perhaps the one good thing they’ve done is to kick-start a fannish drive to create its own universal archive.

As a (former, thank gawd) jill-of-all-trades at an MIT startup, I have to say: WORD. So, your beta blew up in your face? Be glad it was your beta, not your gold. Then take a deep breath and fix it.

Also: sleep or money. Pick one.

Trust me, his site sucks. The interface is marginally better than, say, those old personal pages where people stuck all the content on a single long page and just separated it with hr lines. Marginally. The tags are a mess, though, and you can’t sort worth crap. Also, the content boxes are irritatingly small and force me to scroll constantly.

All of this is fixable, except perhaps the rift with the community. He might do well to replace himself, or to bring in a crack PR specialist. Heaven knows he’s going to need one.

I agree with Maygra’s comment in Henry Jenkins’ journal. Mr. Williams seems to have gotten the impression that all of fandom was ffnet and stepped in it.

Thank you for this lovely read. If I ever land in comics, I’ll definitely look you up.