Well, I follow a lot of rec comms, either here and on dreamwidth (bestthingever, fancake, calufrax, 221b_recs, gensplosion, buffyversetop5...).
I also find fics through fic finding comms (kink-finders, avengers_search, sgagenrefinders, fanficfinder, st_ficfinder, teenwolffinders...).
There are also rec challenges like the snowflake-challenge.
Oh, and podfics are a great way to find new fics to read. I also follow a lot of fannish podcasts, which tend to include rec sections.
Mostly, though I use my pinboard's network and subscriptions, or just searching pinboard's wider archive. Also, sometimes I go looking through AO3 bookmarks (going though a particular bookmaker, if they leave notes on their bookmark and we seem to share the same kind of taste). I also love hunting down rec lists, either on LJ/DW or tumblr. Also, The Rec Center newsletter is awesome.
I also subscribe to authors whose work I like on AO3 and find fanworks through fannish newsletters (comicstore_news, su_herald).
And of course there's the het-reccers comm itself. *g*

Ooh, those are some awesome suggestions! Definitely following calufrax immediately.

Yay, glad to be of help! ;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE LINKS TO FANNISH PODCASTS! I AM OFF TO DOWNLOAD RIGHT NOW!

Of course, hope you enjoy! <3

Personally, I pretty much just have this and whatever friends and fandom blogs recommend on Tumblr. If I participate in a writing challenge, like Yuletide or a Big Bang, I usually pore through that collection on AO3, and I follow a couple of OTP tags via RSS, but...that's really about it. I miss crack_van—I don't read a ton of slash, but I don't really have anywhere reliable to get recs for those slash pairings that I do love. So I'm excited to see what others do!

I miss crack_van too.. *nods*

I don't, really! I read what my tumblr friends reblog. When I fall in love with a pairing I check the AO3 ordered by most kudos and hope for the best. It's a hard life.

*fist bump of fandom solidarity* It's a hard life indeed. Good thing you have awesome tumblr friends. :D

I'm excited to see what everybody else has to suggest for this!

So, for me, I sporadically check a couple other reccing sites:

gensplosion - great, multifandom rec site for gen fics, with a very het-reccers community type vibe ♥

fancake - a multifandom reccing community based around trope theme months (where you can rec anything that matches that trope); I find fancake generally more hit-or-miss for me in terms of the quality of the recs themselves, but definitely worth browsing

For Supernatural specifically, I've had good luck with Supernatural Story Finders, which has a tremendous tagging system that encompasses pairings, tropes, and a bunch of show-specific scenarios.

For Veronica Mars, the tumblr VM Fic Recs is a fantastic resource.

FFA usually has fic rec threads on the first page or so of each post; again, those are a bit more hit-or-miss again for me, but I've had good luck there as well, both asking for and finding new stuff.

I miss crack_van. :(

I'm predominately on tumblr these days, so I do depend on my dashboard and the people I follow to surface up fic recs. Mostly, though, I do what I imagine a lot of us do: sort by bookmarks on AO3 and start reading from the top of the list, sort by Favorites on fanfiction.net and do the same, or search " fic recs" and see what google digs up for me. Somedays it's a long slog to find stuff to read (and especially for older fandoms)....

Edited at 2016-02-15 02:47 pm (UTC)

Ooo -- I just bookmarked that VM Fic site. I miss VM fic. Thanks!

It's a great (and active) tumblr - definitely a must-follow for VM fans!

I follow many of the communities already linked above. I also haunt the "fic recs" thread on fail_fandomanon. That one's also useful because I can make a request for when I'm looking for something in particular.

Yes! I also really like the regular what-I've-read-recently thread at FFA for more balanced conversation of fic, both good and bad.

I also follow and have recced at some of the aforementioned communities, but as of this moment, I'm going through some older comms, such as spoiler_song, and looking for fics I might've missed when the comms were more active.

Edited at 2016-02-15 09:33 pm (UTC)

Thank you for putting this out there - part of my original question was built around the fact that hetreccers does what it does so damn well, the lack of it across a wider fandom space is really noticeable!

The reader in me is going to go wild on all these options; as a reccer, the need to sit on my hands when it comes to slash and multiship recs is something I'll have to learn to live with :D (Or rec elsewhere, of course.)

Personally, I do much the same as everyone else: I rely on recs that pop up on my tumblr (and do my best to remember to rec anything I'm reading and enjoying). I track my favourite authors on A03 and subscribe to a ridiculous number of stories, as well as having a bunch of my favourite pairings tags bookmarked to check up on every now and then. This works for me because my primary fandom atm (Revolution) is very small (ie probably no more than 50 of us writing) and we have successfully dragged almost everyone into A03.

If its happening exclusively on tumblr, or at FFN or LJ, I'll probably miss it unless someone recs it ... so the moral of the story is RECS PLEASE :D

I subscribe to a frakton of fic comms or writing comms or fandom-specific comms, mostly here, with a few on DW. Other than that, if I like something on AO3, I'll go through the author's "backlist" and sometimes subscribe to them.

I'm an omnivorous reader, though - I'll read anything in just about any fandom, if it's got a kink or premise I like, if it's written by someone I know, if it's recced by someone I know, etc.

I don't venture much to FFN and I'm not active on Tumblr, though there's some very good short fic there.

I used FFNet up until about three years ago and now I read from Ao3 almost exclusively! I track my OTP tags on there. If I'm craving something from a pre-2000s fandom, I usually try and find old forums.

I only follow HetReccers and Crack Broom (Harry Potter) here on LJ. I follow ffictionrec for Romione stories on Tumblr.

If it's on LJ or Dreamwidth or Tumblr I will probably miss it!!