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fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)
AO3 has this feature called "mark for later" which is really cool. If you're looking at recs and you want to read something, but you can't do it right then, you can mark it, and when you have time, you can go to your History and filter for the "marked" stories. Very nice, very nifty.

However, the History itself is awesome. If you don't clear it, it shows everything you've ever read or just looked at, and it even keeps a count of how many times you've viewed each item. So, if you're particularly lazy, you don't even have to "mark for later" - you can just go to your history and scroll to the story you meant to come back to. Of course, that only works *well* if you go back soon, otherwise, you have to scroll through several pages of works, but I will hit a few stories in the morning, so that later, when I'm standing in line somewhere, I can call up my history on my phone, and totally get some reading in without having to search for likely candidates.

AO3, how are you so awesome?!
fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)
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I took the OTW Community Survey!

AOOO

Sunday, January 29th, 2012 11:51 am
fullygoldy: Caldwell's Un-happy face (Happy Face)
Is anyone else having trouble with AOOO's response time?

All through the initial Yuletide rush, I had no trouble whatsoever.  I don't even recall getting the "502" response once.  But for the last week, every single time I click on *anything* it just grinds and grinds away, and only coughs up my page about half the time.

I am sadface today.
fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)
with thanks to [personal profile] kass :

Dear everyone involved with the Archive of Our Own,

Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who's ever written a line of code, fixed a bug, wrangled a tag, answered a support ticket.

Thank you to the back-end coders and thank you to the front-end coders.

Thank you to everyone who's ever brainstormed about what the archive might do, and thank you to everyone who's poured their hearts, souls, and spare time into trying to make the archive do all of those things and more.

I use the AO3 every day. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for building it for me and for everyone who uses it -- and for everyone who doesn't use it yet but might use it someday.

This archive isn't something to which fandom is entitled. It's a labor of love. You make the archive as your gift to fandom, and I appreciate that gift so, so much.

Even though it isn't finished yet. Even though it isn't perfect yet. It's still awesome, and your hard work is tremendous and admirable, and I just want to say thanks.

(Dear everyone else: if anything in this post resonates with you, feel free to signal-boost or repost.)

So this thing happened on AO3 this weekend - the site looks different, but for me, it was very similar in look and feel. I didn't have any access problems, nothing disappeared, I don't use a fancy skin, so nothing broke. The stuff I searched for popped up quickly.  I guess I was in the lucky minority, or I just didn't hit it at the right time to experience all the wrongs.  I'm not a huge fan of the light gray background, but it wasn't horrible. I'm just grateful that I can reliable go one place and reliably find lots of fanworks.  I used to love the "Complete Archive of Slash" hosted by Minotaur, but it was clunky to use, and too much work for one person anyway.  It just seems like when one person creates something, people will be more forgiving, or they won't go there. Maybe the color scheme sucks, or you don't like the tagging system, but hey, it's still a valuable resource, so you can put up with those things.  But since AO3 was created by an organization, it's been de-personalized in some ways.  But as [personal profile] kass
  reminds us, it's ALL personal.  So really, please remember to be kind to everyone who's giving so much so you can enjoy your corner of fandom a little more easily.
fullygoldy: text = If there's a slashers' heaven, I bet they've got a hell of an archive (Slashers' Heaven)

Is it amazing to anyone else that Adam Lambert (Musician) is a stand-alone fandom on AO3? I get having the American Idol fandom, with subsets for the different seasons, but Adam? He's got a life of his own. And currently has 1147 stories about him posted to AO3.

People! That's more than White Collar with it's 1019 delightful stories, or Star Wars, or Pirates of the Carribean, or you know, anything in Yuletide. I keep watching the count go up everyday. It's amazing how active this fandom is right now. If he continues to be his fabulous self, he could start oppressing fandom  any day now! Think of it! Years and years of sparkly, near canon fic! Why, it could be as long-lasting and satisfying as (gasp)  due South! The 2819 uploaded stories aren't nearly all - I'm pretty sure I've read that many on my own, before AO3 was created, and I'm nowhere near having completed the catalog. Hmmm, the Ray wars may have to take a back seat to CKR vs Lambert for who's the sexiest.  And while Adam is so very shiny and sparkly, I think we all know who  my  heart  belongs to.  Besides, Adam's a baby compared to Callum, and I'm always always always gonna prefer the men to the boys.