AO3 code updates

We tried hard to get these in before the reveal for anyone doing some last-minute reading and reccing of Yuletide fic while they're still anonymous.

Release Notes

Highlights:

• You can see all works in a collection at once now.


• The story counts on the main Yuletide fandoms listing (which combines Yuletide 2009 and Yuletide Madness 2009) should be more accurate.


• We added an option to switch filters back and forth from 'and' to 'or', so you can select multiple fandoms from the filter list and read through them all at once. You might want to stick to fandoms, since it really does mean "works with any of these tags."


• You can sort works by hit count. While there's not a predictable ratio of hits to comments, it could at least be a guide to which Yuletide stories have gotten a little less attention and whose authors might appreciate a couple more comments.


• You can also turn off hit counts globally, for your own viewing.


• If you're logged out and leaving comments, the site will remember your name and email until you close your browser.


• The bookmarks listings and main collections pages should be much faster.


• One handy tool, especially if you're reading a lot and then going back and commenting/bookmarking is the reading history page, which is linked from the sidebar on your user page. Earlier in the week, it was hampered by a bug that made all the Yuletide stories show up as Mystery Works, but that's fixed now. It also tells you if the story was updated since you last read it. (If it's not a feature you want to use, there's also an option to turn it off in your preferences.)

Also, one thing: the tag wrangling pages, as it turns out, have not scaled well at all with the significant increase in numbers of tags. Those pages were all due to be revised soon anyway, but many of them have become straight-up unusable because they're so slow. We asked the wranglers not to wrangle anything but fandoms, and a bunch of those were marked common/canonical in a rushed manner just to make them accessible in fandom listings and filters. I'll try to get the code done as fast as I can, but in the meantime, please bear with us. I know it's frustrating for both the users and the wranglers. <3

An embarrassment of riches

I always feel a little bit out of step with Yuletide. Like, I totally see why it's fun to do the mad dash of reading and reccing before the reveal, but I'm usually offline more around Christmas, and - that's a lot of fic! But then I haven't read very much, and the authors are revealed and all the recs slide off my flist and into oblivion, and even though, intellectually, I know that the stories are there all year, it winds up feeling like I've missed the boat and I end up having read maybe half a dozen of them.

That's not a complaint, it's just an accounting of yearly personal fail. *g*

But this year, ho ho, I have means, motive AND opportunity to do better, and thus:

( recs )

Yikes, that's just the tip of the iceberg - must read more!

Also, for the record, I am clearly contributing to people's writerly angst by repeatedly opening bunches of Yuletide stories in tabs, going "asdkfjiglej, TOO MANY TABS," closing them all and then going back to read one by one. I've hit a bunch of stories five or six times. SORRY.