AO3 miscellany

1. I keep checking to see if someone's actually written Star Wars Holiday Special fic, and I keep being disappointed. I - huh, I was going to say it sounds like a Yuletide fandom, but it's probably ineligible, isn't it? Alas, poor unloved Itchy and Lumpy.



2. They've both kept climbing, but SGA continues to maintain a steady lead over BtVS in the top fandom sweepstakes. It's only a matter of time until HP really takes off, though.



3. What you can do with a multifandom archive: the tag wranglers started writing Steampunk RPF about themselves. It is awesome. As is their epic wrangling work. (31,591 tags in the system right now!) And writing fic about how badly you need new features is one way to get the coders' attention. *g* (Signed, she who is charged with the sacred duty of bringing metatags to the Wrangulator. I feel a tiny bit like Frodo, or possibly Gandalf.)



4. The automatic invite queue has been chugging along, so don't forget that you can request an invite if you don't already have an account! Even if you're not an author or aren't interested in uploading your work yet, registering lets you create bookmarks and comment more easily, as well as letting you see works that are only visible to logged-in users (sort of like a mega-flock).



5. We'll be deploying some bug fixes and collections groundwork tonight/soon. Most of what you'll see over the next few weeks will be preparation for Yuletide - which will hopefully go off without a hitch *knocks wood* - and then after the new year, review and refactoring and exciting new features!

Oh, and you can follow AO3_Status on Twitter, for status updates of the up/down/updating variety.