Mibba

Website
Name:	Mibba
Owner/Maintainer:
Dates:	December 2006-
Type:	fanfiction, original fiction, poems, magazines, news, reviews, blogs, forums, tutorials
Fandom:	general
URL:	http://mibba.com
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Mibba is a creative writing website, founded in 2006. It is home to fanfiction, RPF, and original fiction alike, as well as providing message boards, blogs, and many other interactive features for website members.

It was relatively under the radar for the first couple of years of its existence; but after Quizilla's 2008 changes, many former Quizilla users migrated over to Mibba. Part of the appeal was that both websites were similar in being fanfiction and RPF-friendly, as well as having usable message boards. The most significant difference was that Mibba did not have quizzes, though most of Quizilla's migrants were creative writers, and had only used Quizilla for that purpose.

Mibba remains a relatively lesser-known site, despite being well-run. This may be due to its demographic, which largely appears to be geared towards kids and young people, like Quizilla was. Its purpose seems to aim to help young people practice their writing skills. As of 2017, there are presently a little over 1000 active members.

Features

Stories

Stories and poems are the website's largest element, being a creative writing website. The stories' front page has trending keywords at the top, such as Actors, Actresses, Books, and Film, which usually pertain to fanfiction.

The section is even further broken down into the following:

• Comment Swap - A new feature where members can write comments in exchange for receiving comments from other members.
• Layouts - Themes for customizing stories' appearances.
• Genres - A list of genres that readers can select from.
• Short stories
• Completed stories
• Fan fiction
• Original fiction
• True story

Poems

• Layouts - Themes for customizing poems' appearances.
• Acrostic
• Ballad
• Elegy
• Epic
• Free-verse
• Haiku
• Limerick
• Lyrics
• Narrative
• Ode
• Rhyme
• Sonnet
• Verse

Magazine

The magazine section acts as a site news and lifestyle section, covering both content on the website as well as things such as recipes and new site features.

• Mibba Life - Contains things such as recipes, gardening, top 5 lists, and interviews.
• From the Staff - Official site announcements
• Wide World of Writing - News on site writing contests, either hosted by the staff or by other members.
• Recs and Reviews - Recommended and featured stories hosted on the site

Articles

The articles section is likened to world and domestic news, written by members of the website. It contains the following categories:

• Literature
• Entertainment
• World
• Politics
• Sport
• Science
• Bizarre
• People
• History
• Health
• Nature
• Biographies

Reviews

The reviews section is where members can write reviews for mainstream media and entertainment.

• Album
• Movie
• Book
• DVD
• Game
• Artist
• TV Show

Tutorials

• Technology
• Graphic Design
• Makeup
• Fashion
• Writing
• Music
• School
• Recipes
• Art
• Other

Books

• Drama
• Prose
• Poetry
• Genres

Members

• Blogs
• Layouts - For members' profile homepages.

Forums

• General
• Chat Rooms
• Contests and Challenges
• Society
• Life
• Writing
• Entertainment
• Technology
• Mibba

Fandoms

Mibba appears to have representatives from many different fandoms, such as kpop, bandom, One Direction, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Twilight, and X-Men.

There is an especially notable Frerard community.

Criticisms of the Website

Due to its ability to members-lock fics, many stories from other websites are crossposted and plagiarized on Mibba.

Additionally, because the website emphasizes so much about having "quality" writing, other writers tend to feel pressured to write and post in conventional ways, taking away some of their creativity lest their "unqualified" stories get reported. Others feel that there may not be enough weeding out for them to find good fic.

I've had enough of Mibba if I'm being honest; and until editors get some actual power to do things on there I'll only be posting ONE more update on each story so everyone is aware of what I'm doing. [...]

The reason for this is because within the last week, this story alone has been reported three times, by that stupid, small number of people who think a script isn't a 'proper story'. Another of my stories has been reported and I've, over the years, had many PMs and comments telling me the 'correct' way to write.

I'm not breaking any rules, yet I always have to explain myself to people who are...well, close minded and not willing to accept something different.

I hate Mibba because there is no semblance of organization. At all. Plus, and no offense to frerard, but it's hard to swim through 6 billion frerard stories when that's not what you want. And of course, the disclaimer that states "not fanfiction!" wtf?

Positives of the Website

Dedicated members to the website enjoy its tight-knit community and focus on writing improvement, as feedback and discussion are important parts of the website.

I've seen other writing sites, like LJ, but nothing of this depth and closeness. Mibba is just so friendly and there's so much to do and someone to talk to at all times. It's honestly just... different. Like a giant family. :)

Livejournal is sorta the same, but I think Mibba's the only [successful] site of it's kind whereby it was actually created for stories/poems. I think Livejournal just started out as like a journal online then people started to use it for stories&icons etc, 'cause we have more options here [subscribe, favourite authors etc]

Overall Internet Presence

... but, generally, Mibba is largely unknown to anyone outside of its 1,000 members, or any of its ex-members. The website doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.