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Rock on AO3.
Were there bugs? Yea, verily.
Were there high traffic induced waitages early on? Indubitably.
But, and oh is this a mighty but my friends, but did it function better than the original archive which is broken and dying a very sad yet strongly hopeful death (much like Yoda on his stained pillow)?
HELLS YES.
Last year was my first Yuletide, and I must have uploaded my fic about four million times because I had dared to, I dunno, HIT FREAKING RETURN WHEN I STARTED A NEW PARAGRAPH. Or maybe it was that I had people talk to each other. In words. That required quotation marks. I'm unclear. All I know is that the default word processing system used by most of America rendered an un-uploadable product to the archive. Someone suggested using Notepad. Wow. All you Notepad users deserve some sort of medal. It just goes on and on all the way to Atlanta, each line. *shakes head* I managed to cobble together a story the archive would accept, but I still couldn't format it quite the way I wanted to. Thank Willow I didn't have a typo to correct. *shudders in complete horror*
On AO3, my story is my own. I can add author's notes after the fact (which I plan to in order to properly thank my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ariadne83) and fix typos with NOBODY ELSE'S INTERVENTION and see my fic as a contribution to a collection and reply to the comments on my fic ON THE FREAKING INTERFACE ITSELF!!!!!!!!!!!! *gleeeeeee* Please do not allow me to elaborate on the tagging system. It's possible I will have an orgasm on your reading page.
What it really boils down to for me is that this system is easier for the mods. I have no idea what complicated chicken dances were required to make the original archive funcational, and I have no illusions that everybody's all lounging on divans and drinking Cristal while the archive fills now that it has moved to AO3. But this is better and easier for the people that do an unpaid and often quite thankless job for the rest of fandom.
So all I can say is thank you, Yuletide mods, and thank you AO3 for a stellar job.
Next year (when all the attendant kinks have been worked out)--the moon!!
Were there bugs? Yea, verily.
Were there high traffic induced waitages early on? Indubitably.
But, and oh is this a mighty but my friends, but did it function better than the original archive which is broken and dying a very sad yet strongly hopeful death (much like Yoda on his stained pillow)?
HELLS YES.
Last year was my first Yuletide, and I must have uploaded my fic about four million times because I had dared to, I dunno, HIT FREAKING RETURN WHEN I STARTED A NEW PARAGRAPH. Or maybe it was that I had people talk to each other. In words. That required quotation marks. I'm unclear. All I know is that the default word processing system used by most of America rendered an un-uploadable product to the archive. Someone suggested using Notepad. Wow. All you Notepad users deserve some sort of medal. It just goes on and on all the way to Atlanta, each line. *shakes head* I managed to cobble together a story the archive would accept, but I still couldn't format it quite the way I wanted to. Thank Willow I didn't have a typo to correct. *shudders in complete horror*
On AO3, my story is my own. I can add author's notes after the fact (which I plan to in order to properly thank my
ariadne83) and fix typos with NOBODY ELSE'S INTERVENTION and see my fic as a contribution to a collection and reply to the comments on my fic ON THE FREAKING INTERFACE ITSELF!!!!!!!!!!!! *gleeeeeee* Please do not allow me to elaborate on the tagging system. It's possible I will have an orgasm on your reading page.What it really boils down to for me is that this system is easier for the mods. I have no idea what complicated chicken dances were required to make the original archive funcational, and I have no illusions that everybody's all lounging on divans and drinking Cristal while the archive fills now that it has moved to AO3. But this is better and easier for the people that do an unpaid and often quite thankless job for the rest of fandom.
So all I can say is thank you, Yuletide mods, and thank you AO3 for a stellar job.
Next year (when all the attendant kinks have been worked out)--the moon!!
