[unalone]

Wow! I didn't know anybody from FictionAlley was on Hacker News. That's incredibly cool.

Your interface was one of my favorite FF ones. I liked how you sorted by author name rather than genre: it put the emphasis on the writers, which was really neat.

[nostrademons]

Yeah, I was the tech lead for FictionAlley from 2002-2005. I wrote about 90% of the code in the current system, and did most of the design and project management (though of course it was a consensus effort, and lots of people contributed). I've been mostly-retired for almost 3 years now, but I still get called on for occasional bugfixes.

It's funny, in the "When will you consider yourself a success?" thread, I was thinking that my answer would be "When random people I meet say, 'Wow, you built X! I use that all the time' where X is some project I've done." It's really gratifying to hear someone using it.

[unalone]

I can imagine. I only ever wrote one fanfiction piece, so that wasn't up my alley, but at the governor's school I attended, we'd read HP fanfiction aloud at night (this was right before Deathly Hallows), and FictionAlley was one of the big ones.

That is so cool.

[curiousgeorge]

I've had that a few times. It is very cool. But eating is cool too. Balancing the two is important. ;)