BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN! I HAD SUCCESSFULLY FORGOTTEN!!
:)
And nah, dark backgrounds were everywhere. Even sites like Reddit etc, have night mode with dark backgrounds that you can switch to. I liked having grey backgrounds - ok, I still do, but once I found f.lux, which lets you regulate your monitor brightness, I can deal with brighter pages, ie, white background. Otherwise, all that brightness starts to hurt my eyes.
I didn't send that much feedback, but yeah, I remember being critical, too. Don't think I'd dare to do this these days. Partially I think because back then, I sent feedback via email, so it was clearly intended just for the author, and in private. Nowadays, you need to comment on the story in public, and even if the author doesn't mind, other readers might eat you for it.
But I would say that the nuanced feedback/discussion stuff died with the mailing lists - at least that's where I saw these discussions happening. Some of it came to LJ, but after the move away from there, it's totally gone. And a lot of young fandom blood nowadays, from what I can see on tumblr, is ... _YOUNG_. Painfully so.
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BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN! I HAD SUCCESSFULLY FORGOTTEN!!
:)
And nah, dark backgrounds were everywhere. Even sites like Reddit etc, have night mode with dark backgrounds that you can switch to. I liked having grey backgrounds - ok, I still do, but once I found f.lux, which lets you regulate your monitor brightness, I can deal with brighter pages, ie, white background. Otherwise, all that brightness starts to hurt my eyes.
I didn't send that much feedback, but yeah, I remember being critical, too. Don't think I'd dare to do this these days. Partially I think because back then, I sent feedback via email, so it was clearly intended just for the author, and in private. Nowadays, you need to comment on the story in public, and even if the author doesn't mind, other readers might eat you for it.
But I would say that the nuanced feedback/discussion stuff died with the mailing lists - at least that's where I saw these discussions happening. Some of it came to LJ, but after the move away from there, it's totally gone. And a lot of young fandom blood nowadays, from what I can see on tumblr, is ... _YOUNG_. Painfully so.