Because I so often find myself accentuating the negative at the expense of the positive ...

[sholio]

... I love the AO3. I really do. I use it every day, and it's my first go-to stop when I get into a new fandom. I really love the upload interface (it's smooth, it's easy to use, it's easy to compulsively edit fics as I am wont to do), I love the tags, and the next time I do a fic exchange, I plan to use their (quite awesome-looking) anonymous exchange system.

Thank you to everyone who wrote the code, who does the tag wrangling, and all the other behind-the-scenes stuff that I'm sure I don't even know about. <3 Thank you for making it, and thank you for keeping it running smoothly.

(And, you know, no archive is going to be everything for everyone, and I know there are some of you out there who don't want to use it or haven't had a positive experience with it - and I don't want anyone to feel pressured to enjoy reading/posting on the AO3 just because I like it, or to feel like they need to get their fic up there if they don't enjoy the place. Your experiences and opinion are valid as well! But I do really like it, and while I know it's still in beta and don't expect to like every new change that is trotted out - there are dozens and dozens of things I do like for every one that don't work for me, and that's a really good ratio, methinks. <3)

Comments

[fitzwiggity.livejournal.com]

I just signed up for AO3 but have to wait for an invite code which won't come till supposedly around Dec. Any advice for a newbie like me? :)

[sholio]

Until December? Oh no! I'm sorry you have to wait that long - I had no idea it was so hard to get codes right now. (I'm not actually involved with it in any way, except as a user.)

It's hard to give you advice if you can't play around with the archive yet - maybe look through the fic and get used to the interface so that you'll already know your way around when you have the opportunity to explore the fully-featured archive?

[fitzwiggity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been floating around AO3 and decided it looked like it was worth giving it a shot. There's a lot of stories there, too, that I'm discovering to be quite cool and obsessive with. Such as your and Naye's story "Tao of Whales". :)