I remember the whole Cassandra Claire thing too; I mean, I actually remember the first few ff.n forum posts asking why she'd disappeared from the site. It actually killed my AOL inbox because I'd subscribed to the forums and I was getting 100 emails an hour or something crazy.
From what I've heard, fanfiction.net seems to be having a bit of a revival. Which is nice because I remember it actually being decent when I first started reading - bearing in mind of course that I was a teenager, and a lot of fics I thought were brilliant I've since re-read and been shocked at how... horrible they were. But I also think a lot of the good/halfway decent writers just formed their own fics.
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From what I've heard, fanfiction.net seems to be having a bit of a revival. Which is nice because I remember it actually being decent when I first started reading - bearing in mind of course that I was a teenager, and a lot of fics I thought were brilliant I've since re-read and been shocked at how... horrible they were. But I also think a lot of the good/halfway decent writers just formed their own fics.