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Happy Holidays!
(Happy | Merry) (Christmas | Yuletide | Doctor Who day | Sherlock Holmes day)!
I was a little busy yesterday, ha ha... ha. The good news is that the archive should be pretty zippy once the Yuletide rush starts to ebb a bit. And we've gotten a lot of extremely valuable data that we can use to make things better. Sidra deserves a special award for service above and beyond the call of duty for being stuck chained to the servers to keep them from dying, while sick, on Christmas. She definitely deserves more fic!
A few AO3 tips:
-Filters work by AND not OR, so if you click a bunch of things, you won't get any results. We're always talking about ways to improve those, though, so that's subject to change. (Just not this weekend. *g*)
-When you're posting a story, the tags are comma-separated, so if there's a comma in the name of your fandom or character, you unfortunately do need to leave that out or it gets broken up into two tags that might not make sense on their own. The good news is that you can always go in and edit your tags if you notice it later. We're working (long-term) on a separate 'edit tags' option that would be quicker than the standard edit form.
-If you have an account, you have a preferences page that lets you control things like the visibility of your hit counters and whether or not you want comments emailed to you.
-If you comment with your name and email address, you get reply comments emailed to you. (We're also working on ways to let you turn that off.)
-Authors can restrict stories to be visible only to registered users (and not to search engines), so that's one reason to sign up for an account even if you're not an author yourself.
Recent fixes:
-Hit counter should not count your views of your own works anymore.
-Comment form is now visible when you load a story, so that's one less thing to have to wait for.
I was a little busy yesterday, ha ha... ha. The good news is that the archive should be pretty zippy once the Yuletide rush starts to ebb a bit. And we've gotten a lot of extremely valuable data that we can use to make things better. Sidra deserves a special award for service above and beyond the call of duty for being stuck chained to the servers to keep them from dying, while sick, on Christmas. She definitely deserves more fic!
A few AO3 tips:
-Filters work by AND not OR, so if you click a bunch of things, you won't get any results. We're always talking about ways to improve those, though, so that's subject to change. (Just not this weekend. *g*)
-When you're posting a story, the tags are comma-separated, so if there's a comma in the name of your fandom or character, you unfortunately do need to leave that out or it gets broken up into two tags that might not make sense on their own. The good news is that you can always go in and edit your tags if you notice it later. We're working (long-term) on a separate 'edit tags' option that would be quicker than the standard edit form.
-If you have an account, you have a preferences page that lets you control things like the visibility of your hit counters and whether or not you want comments emailed to you.
-If you comment with your name and email address, you get reply comments emailed to you. (We're also working on ways to let you turn that off.)
-Authors can restrict stories to be visible only to registered users (and not to search engines), so that's one reason to sign up for an account even if you're not an author yourself.
Recent fixes:
-Hit counter should not count your views of your own works anymore.
-Comment form is now visible when you load a story, so that's one less thing to have to wait for.