I was introduced to Asianfanfics what feels like a lifetime ago. I officially joined on 5-5-2011 because I wanted to be able to bookmark my favorite stories.

It was wonderful. There was a relatively large group of talented users whose stories I enjoyed reading. I even decided to write down a few stories.

But as with everything, over time Aff changed, and I'm not quite sure if it's for the better.

Sure, expanding to include more members is always good, but this also means that it can get difficult to find really good writers in the sea of people who either don't use a beta when it would benefit them, or just don't bother to use spellcheck.

Then the new functions started rolling in.

It is difficult to navigate search results if they are split between regular stories and ones rated "m". Especially if people are lazy like me, and put the entire story under "m" to avoid clicking the button for every rated chapter. So those stories are mixed in with just pure .

I don't always appreciate the notifications that pop up because they are distracting.

I realize that revenue must be made somehow, but I really think there should be a limit to where you can post ads.

I was sorely disappointed when comments started becoming censored, and then had the bloody annoying "30 characters minimum" requirement imposed on it. I get why that could have happened, but I REALLY hate it when people tell me what to do, and limiting what I can say on a relatively anonymous forum. It's not just to punish those users that never cussed out anyone by limiting what we can say.

Last but not least, the older users are growing up. Slowly, we start leaving the fandom one by one in favor of reality. I'm already feeling old, and I haven't hit 20 yet.

I don't know if I'll leave AFF any time soon, but at the rate things are going, it will probably be sooner than later. Not in a happy mood right now, and I really wanted to say this for quite some time now.