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Open beta!
There will be official announcements with details forthcoming in the usual places, but:
AO3 Open Beta = this weekend
Existing users will get a very (and for now, probably VERY, VERY) limited number of invitations, but we'll have an automatic queue that you can add your email address to if you'd like to create an account. That should allow us both to add people at manageable rates and to guarantee that you don't need to know someone who already has an account to get one.
A couple of things:
1) If you have religious, family or social obligations on Saturday or Sunday and you're really eager to sign up, you can have someone else add your email to the list. You can have me add your email to the list! (By which I mean, type it into the form same as anyone else, not do anything adminy with it. *g*) We know weekends are better for some people and worse for others, and we don't want anyone to feel left out or inconvenienced.
2) Open beta is still beta, and many things are still under active development and construction.
3) User names are unique, so it's possible you may not get the one you want, depending on demand, but every user can have multiple pseuds (pen names, nicknames, RPG names, even), and those are names that appear alongside your content and can be searched for, etc. So I wouldn't worry unduly about the prospect of somebody else stealing your identity.
4) The AD&T committee had spirited debates about the exact mechanics, rates and ratios of inviting new users so that we can accommodate as many people as possible while keeping an eye on stability, but everyone has always been in strong agreement about wanting the archive to be open to a diverse community of people from every corner of every fandom, with every level of accessibility needs. So if you are interested, you are welcome! And we'll keep on trying to make the best site we can for everyone to use.
...and I should totally stock up on alcohol, shouldn't I?
AO3 Open Beta = this weekend
Existing users will get a very (and for now, probably VERY, VERY) limited number of invitations, but we'll have an automatic queue that you can add your email address to if you'd like to create an account. That should allow us both to add people at manageable rates and to guarantee that you don't need to know someone who already has an account to get one.
A couple of things:
1) If you have religious, family or social obligations on Saturday or Sunday and you're really eager to sign up, you can have someone else add your email to the list. You can have me add your email to the list! (By which I mean, type it into the form same as anyone else, not do anything adminy with it. *g*) We know weekends are better for some people and worse for others, and we don't want anyone to feel left out or inconvenienced.
2) Open beta is still beta, and many things are still under active development and construction.
3) User names are unique, so it's possible you may not get the one you want, depending on demand, but every user can have multiple pseuds (pen names, nicknames, RPG names, even), and those are names that appear alongside your content and can be searched for, etc. So I wouldn't worry unduly about the prospect of somebody else stealing your identity.
4) The AD&T committee had spirited debates about the exact mechanics, rates and ratios of inviting new users so that we can accommodate as many people as possible while keeping an eye on stability, but everyone has always been in strong agreement about wanting the archive to be open to a diverse community of people from every corner of every fandom, with every level of accessibility needs. So if you are interested, you are welcome! And we'll keep on trying to make the best site we can for everyone to use.
...and I should totally stock up on alcohol, shouldn't I?