Talk:Fimfiction

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Campbell, Julie Ann; Aragon, Cecilia; Davis, Katie; Evans, Sarah; Evans, Abigail; Randall, David P. (2016). "Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities". Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. pp. 691–704. arXiv:1510.01425. doi:10.1145/2818048.2819934. ISBN 978-1-4503-3592-8.

"FIMFiction.net is a single-fandom fanfiction repository dedicated to the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. As of July 2015, FIMFiction.net had 185,014 users and 86,009 published stories [22]. Once users create an account on FIMFiction.net, they can access user groups, which include a common fanfiction repository and a discussion forum. Any member can create a group and there are more than 7,000 groups in existence. Group topics range from support groups for writers with learning disorders to groups dedicated to favorite minor characters. FIMFiction.net user pages are more customizable than profile pages on Fanfiction.net, and users have the option to write blog entries, leave public comments on other users’ pages, and create custom content modules and image galleries. Like Fanfiction.net, FIMFiction.net also has a private messaging system where users can communicate directly."

Evans, Sarah; Davis, Katie; Evans, Abigail; Campbell, Julie Ann; Randall, David P.; Yin, Kodlee; Aragon, Cecilia (2017). "More Than Peer Production: Fanfiction Communities as Sites of Distributed Mentoring". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pp. 259–272. arXiv:1611.01549. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998342. ISBN 978-1-4503-4335-0.

"Concurrently with our thematic analysis, we conducted a case study of an online writing support group in FIMFiction.net, a single-fandom fanfiction repository dedicated to the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Considerably smaller than Fanfiction.net, FIMFiction.net had approximately 210,000 registered users and 98,185 published stories as of May 2016 [19]. In addition to individual user pages, FIMFiction.net features more than 7,000 user groups. These groups include a common fanfiction repository and discussion forum, and they cover a range of topics related to specific aspects of the fandom (e.g., favorite characters) and the craft of writing (e.g., how to create a compelling antagonist)."

Aragon, Cecilia Rodriguez; Davis, Katie (2019). Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring. The MIT Press.

"FIMfiction.net represented our other primary site of data collection. As a single-fandom fanfiction repository, FIMfiction.net allowed us to observe the dynamics in an online community dedicated to just one fandom, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. As of February 2019, FIMfiction.net had 251,278 users and 99,448 published stories (FIMfiction.net, 2019). Like Fanfiction.net, members create user pages, although these pages are more customizable than Fanfiction.net profile pages. For instance, members can write blog entries on their pages, leave comments on other members’ pages, and create image galleries. Private messaging is another feature that both sites share. We were particularly drawn to a distinctive feature of FIMfiction.net: user groups. Any member can create a group, and topics range from plot development to favorite minor characters. As of February 2, 2019, there were 11,841 groups on FIMfiction.net (FIMfiction.net, 2019)."

–GM 04:24, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Registration

https://fimfiction.net/register presently states that "Registrations are currently closed", which has been the case for approximately nine months. Account creation can still be requested via Discord, as described in the article body. Should the infobox reflect the current unavailability of standard registration? AuMe (talk) 05:17, 23 March 2026 (UTC)