Link is to full list.
But wow, Ao3 gets a positive mention for being well organized. Also, way to not mock fanfic, TIME.Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
(And the AO3’s specific slideshow slide is right here if you wanna jump right to it.)
I am ridiculously jazzed about this.
I might be a little bit proud about this. :)
(via cesperanza)
Guys, if you haven’t already read about how much it costs to run the AO3, please do, and then please donate.
Ultimately, the archive can only survive if we want it enough to pay for it with our donations. That’s the flip side of having a service that isn’t dependent on making advertisers or venture capitalists or even grant-funders happy, that isn’t going to mine and sell your personal data, and that isn’t going to charge you up front to use it.
If you love the archive, please support it!
An AO3 version of the Tumblr H8 button or Tumblr Savior.
Or, you know, for me to be able to scroll past things without grinding my teeth.
But the former seems, much as it’s a pipe dream, easier to accomplish than the latter.
I mean, I’m almost 39, so we’re talking almost four decades of…
You have to edit the top of the script to put in your blacklist (this is much easier than it sounds, it’s pretty obvious when you look at the file).
If you’re using Chrome, you have to save the script on your desktop, open your Extensions page, and drag the script in there.
esteefee replied to your photoset: AO3 series tip/suggestion! I have started doing a…
I like the Author’s Favorites idea, but, e.g., I have a 146 stories in SGA alone. That’s a helluva lot of work when readers can just click on the already existent sort link (works?fandom_id=70) and get them all that way. Unless I’m missing something?
The reason I prefer the per-fandom series is it’s a single click from the first story to get to another story, where otherwise (especially if an author has a lot of fandoms) then to get the next story, you have to click to the profile, then expand the list, then get to the work index, then pick a story.
Also in that kind of case (a fandom with TONS of stories), I would also love something like an “Author’s SGA Favorites”. :)
The broader point is more, I think it’s useful to use series as a way of curating your own stories for readers, and to help guide readers from one of your stories to others.
AO3 series tip/suggestion!
I have started doing a couple of things on AO3 that I would love to see more people do, especially those of you who are prolific:
* Author’s favorites series
I created a series called “Author’s Favorites” and I’ve put my roughly top 10 favorite stories I’ve written into it. That means that someone who wants to see what other stuff I’ve written has a convenient series they can poke into and see what I think of as my “best” stories.
* Per-fandom series
I’ve created a “POI stories” series for all my stories in that fandom. This means that when someone hits the bottom of a story I’ve written, they can super-easily find all the other stories I’ve written in that fandom and navigate back through them if they like. I’m planning to go back and add these to my other fandoms too as time allows.
Anyway, I mention this because I would love to see others do this — I always find it super neat to see what stories an author thinks are her best, so having an Author’s Favorites list right on the AO3 to browse would be great, and the first thing I do after I finish a story I’ve liked is go and see what else that author has written in my fandom, so the per-fandom series would be super useful. :D
*proselytizes*
AO3 feed for Reese/Finch
Hey all, I have set up ao3feed-reesefinch, a tumblr that follows the Reese/Finch tag from the AO3 and posts the story announcements here to Tumblr. :) Follow to get fic announcements delivered to your dash!
(And see the original how-to post for instructions on how to set up a similar feed for another pairing or fandom!)
Also PSA, there is an awesome tumblr fuckyeahao3feeds that is now maintaining a masterlist of all the AO3 feed tumblrs out there!
Fanfic Lifetime Stats
(posted to celebrate getting ALL my stories uploaded to the archive)
total count: 1,646,005 words in 330 works in 54 fandoms
earliest work posted: 1994
longest work: Revelations, 51,459 (and it’ll be longer once I finish it, which will be SOON)
fandom with most stories: American Idol RPF Season 8, with 44
number of fandoms with only one story: 25
Post your own! :D You can get them on the “Statistics” page linked off your main profile, using Flat View. (And haha I know my numbers are crazy but I do point to that 1994 start date, omg. Almost TWENTY YEARS at this.)
OTW Membership Drive
October 13-17, 2012
Probably if you’re reading this, you’ve at least heard of the AO3 — read stories on it, maybe posted — but you may not realize that it’s 100% donor-supported, that we are and always will be ad-free (except for our donation drive banner ;), and that we’re never going to try to find some way to make a profit off the content.
The AO3 is funded by the OTW, the Organization for Transformative Works, which makes possible the archive and a ton of other projects that also would be too big for any one fan to accomplish alone — including Fanlore, Transformative Works And Cultures, Open Doors and the Fannish Culture Preservation Project, and our legal advocacy.
So if you use or value these — please support if you can! $10 is all you need to donate to become a member and show your support, and there is shiny shiny swag at higher levels. :D
Speaking of which, CHECK OUT THE AWESOME SWAG! Kudos water bottle! *makes grabby hands*
(PS: You do still have to wait in the AO3 queue for an invite though — sorry! For privacy reasons we keep all financial/RL information completely separate from our services.)
And please reblog reblog reblog! <3
Setting up AO3 Feeds on Tumblr
I’ve worked out a pretty easy way to get AO3 fandom notifications on tumblr using the IFTTT service, yay. :) If there’s a fandom where you’d like to get all the story notifications on your dash, here’s how to do it:
1) See if someone else has already done all the work for you by looking in the #ao3feed announcement tag or just seeing if there’s an ao3feed-[fandom] blog already set up. If so, follow that blog. You’re done!
2) If not, set up a tumblr blog and named it ao3feed-[fandom] so other people can find it easily (eg, I’ve created ao3feed-thor for the Thor movie). You can use whatever theme you want. Keep in mind the entries are all going to be plain text.
3) Go to ifttt, create an account for this feed, activate the Tumblr channel, and select the new ao3feed-whatever blog as the blog that the account will post to. (At the time I write this, ifttt.com only allows you to post to one tumblr blog per account, so you have to make a new ifttt account for each feed you want to set up. Annoying!)
4) Now you need the AO3 feed URL: browse to the fandom that you want to follow on the AO3 and copy the URL from the RSS feed:
5) Go to the ifttt recipe I’ve created for AO3 feeds and REPLACE the Thor feed URL with the one you just copied.
6) Also add one or more tags for your fandom:
7) Click “Use Recipe”
8) Hover anxiously over the Tumblr blog refreshing until the first story appears. (This won’t happen until someone posts a new story to that fandom tag! So if you have made a feed for Super Obscure Fandom you may have a wait, alas.)
9) Tell people you’ve set up a new feed under the #ao3feed announcement hashtag!
Do you think Naomi Novik ever looks at AO3
sees some incest mpreg
and whispers to herself “I never wanted this.”
No. :)
AO3 temporary issue!
If you see anything weird on the AO3 in the next few hours (from when I post this, which is 8:20pm US eastern time on Thursday August 16) no worries, just hang tight:
via http://bit.ly/LURjU3 RT @AO3_Status: #AO3 is up but we had a bug which caused some folk to see weird pages. More info at http://t.co/YjFsfg0p
It was a DNS typo, already fixed, but due to the way DNS info propagates, you might still get a weird redirect in the next four hours or so, after that it should be all clear.
Please reblog to spread the word in the next few hours, if you see this before then and have a chance! <3
(via cesperanza)
Happy SysAdmin Day! Here at the OTW, we’d like to take the opportunity to say thank you to our fantastic Systems team!
Systems work tirelessly behind the scenes to make everything work smoothly for the whole organisation…
yay AO3 sysadmins! \o/
Aw, check it out, thesavvygambols@LJ has made an AO3 fanmix! ♥
\o/ AO3 performance after the last deploy!
so now I finally get to write more Revelations! (though next chapter is going to be another long one so will still be a while)
Key information: As an emergency measure to deal with recent performance issues, we will shortly be disabling the browsing filters on the site (the grey box of choices which appears on work index pages). This is a temporary measure to ensure that as many people as possible can access the site….
Reblogging this heads-up — we’re turning filters off shortly to try and hopefully improve performance. Read the post above for useful tips on how to use advanced search instead! (Please reblog if there are people on your followers who use AO3 to help get the word out!)
