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Posted: September 19, 2024 18:39 UTC

We're continuing to investigate login issues and the archive may be up and down intermittently until we get it fixed. We apologize for the interruptions and will keep you updated!

Posted: September 19, 2024 19:06 UTC

#fandom #fandom psa #archive of our own #ao3 psa #ao3 #ao3 functionality #(Apparently I completely missed this downtime)#again #(I was a little distracted {+still waking up} but)#signal boost #({Reblogs this version instead} since its more current info!!)

We got the situation under control for now, but will keep an eye on any further issues. If you're still experiencing problems, please try refreshing the page or clearing your cache. Very sorry for the scare!

Posted: September 19, 2024 20:30 UTC

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#accessibility #archive of our own #ao3 #ao3 informative #ao3 skins #ao3 accessibility #(for those who may need this reference)#(as I usually cant format this easily in a way thats accessible to everyone on my own in my own things either)#large text #bold text #(and other such heavily stylized texts like others I share in the past can in fact)#(hurts my eyes most of the time)#sensory issues #actuallyautistic #actuallysensoryissues #(so I usually opt for standard text sizing and then otherwise formatting for emphasis at times)#(but I usually try to personally avoid larger text or excessive capslock in actual written fic)#({according to comments} may want to check the text size settings in your {various} browser{s} before going to the trouble)#(when I very first began writing ficstuff here I noticed many complaining about accessibility when reading fic too but)#(AO3 did have options to help with that even way back then)#(I just didnt have the references on hand at the time but I will always share something genuinely useful)

Anonymous asked:

I have a request, if you don't mind? Could you please make a skin that makes text bigger? I read ao3 on my phone and the text (in the works specifically) is too small. I can't figure out how the skin creator works.

ao3skin answered:

yep! easily solved!

So, go to your dashboard->Skins->create site skin and then give it a unique name and copy/paste one of those codes here:

Option One:

Changing the size of everything in the website (this will modify menu, dashboard, buttons, text, everything):

body { font-size: 130%; }

Option Two:

Changing only the size of the text of the work, the blurb, the comments and summary:

#workskin, .blurb, .comment { font-size: 130%; }

You can change the percentage according to your needs!

Additionally you can change it only on mobile (if you wish) and not on desktop.

You do that by going down to ‘advanced’ and click on the button that says ‘show’. There’s a list of checkbox that appears now. if you scroll down you’ll find the option “only screen and (max-width: 42em)” Check that if you want your skin to apply only on mobile!

Then click on save and click on use the skin!

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two ways to change AO3's font size

if you want to change the whole site

Log into your account
Tap on Hi, username! at the top of the page
choose Dashboard from the dropdown menu
Find and tap on the word Skins (just below the search bar on mobile, or in the left-hand sidebar on a computer)
Tap on the Create Site Skin button at the top of the page
Tap on the Use Wizard button at the top of the page
Enter a unique title for your site skin (if you don't do this, it won't save)
Scroll down to the box that says Percent of browser font size and enter a number that's bigger than 100.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and hit the Submit button (this only saves your skin, it doesn't apply it)
On the next page, hit the Use button (this applies the skin to your account)

if you just want to change the text inside the fics

Follow steps 1-5 above, but do not hit the Use Wizard button. Instead:

Enter a unique title for your skin
Scroll down to the large box with CSS at the top
Paste this CSS code into the window

#workskin p { font-size: 110%; }

and then follow steps 9 and 10 above. If the font still isn't large enough, make the number bigger. For example 100% is whatever size the font usually is in your browser, so 200% would be double that size.

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#a: yes multiple #fandom #fandom poll #poll #ao3 #archive of our own #a: meta+analysis #(when i can actually Find It for my smaller Fandoms)#(and its to my taste)#({and that actually *follows* A.O.3.s rules and posting guidelines})#(along with various other things that sometimes arent fic like descriptive stuff for mainly F.S.T posts but those)#(are also few and far between lately)#(I'm fine with reading from everything else listed too I can just rarely find things to my taste though i Try)#(People really dont seem to understand you *can* post things that arent just fic its *always been possible*)

apolladay

Anonymous asked:

do you read stuff on AO3 that isn’t fanfiction?

yes, poetry

yes, original fiction

yes, essays or something similar

yes, meta/analyses

yes, other

yes, multiple of these

yes, all of these

no, just fanfiction

I don’t use AO3/see results

apolladay answered:

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[mirrored from a post on the AO3 News blog]

How our Policy & Abuse and Support volunteers get in touch with you

We recently received reports about one or more Tumblr accounts posing as “AO3 consultants” and contacting other users about their works on the Archive. In those messages, users are asked to take down their works “due to reports of abuse” or else have their works deleted by AO3 admins.

These messages are in no way sanctioned by the AO3 Policy & Abuse committee, who will never contact users via social media. All messages you receive from our Support and Abuse teams will be signed by the volunteer contacting you, and will reference specific abuse reports, requests for technical support, or other matters pertaining to your account.

Please keep your email address up to date, as this is our only way of getting in touch with you. To check, follow these instructions for changing the email address associated with your account. (If you go to that page and don’t see a place to enter your password, that’s a known issue, sorry! You can work around it by following these steps to change your password.)

#ao3org #fandom #fandom issues #archive of our own #ao3 #ao3 informative #fandom harassment #harassment #bullying #cyberbullying #abuse #peer abuse #*Reblogging to Inform #(Outdated reblog but Very Important)#(It seems this issue had been resolved for a while but)#(because this post was from 2018)#(but the information here from AO3 mods is still Very Important)#(Do NOT listen to anyone or any spam email about how AO3 would supposedly do those things!!!)

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mylordshesacactus answered:

mylordshesacactus

parsesasolivia asked:

hey uh

this is probably somewhat awkward for a fiction written years ago, but today i read both of the mirror mirror-verse fictions and found them quite enjoyable. thank you for writing them.

Okay, so, I think the reason that explanations about this aren’t gaining traction is that we as ficauthors instinctively respond by focusing on our experience to reassure you–“No, it’s great! I love getting comments on older fic! No fanfic author is going to object to that!”–and the reason that doesn’t have much of an effect is that it’s inherently subjective. Just because one person has a positive reaction doesn’t mean everyone does, and besides, we might just be polite, right?

Here’s the actual explanation: Your anxieties are misplaced because you are mistaking a fanfiction site for social media.

Ao3 isn’t Facebook! It’s an archive. Works there are intended to be easily found and enjoyed years after their creation, exactly the same as books in a library!

It’s not “awkward” to say you just read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time even though it was written years ago, and in the same way, new readers are SUPPOSED to be constantly finding fic and enjoying it regardless of publishing date. That’s the entire point of publishing it.

Fanfiction sites are not social media. There’s no such thing as “creeping” in someone’s old posts. In a very real way, there’s no such thing as “old posts” at all. Again–by that logic, you’re being creepy whenever you pick up a book at the library that’s more than a few months old! That’s insane.

If this is your first time reading Macbeth, then it’s a totally new experience to you and you can and SHOULD talk about your impressions and reactions to that story in the context that you’re reading it. There’s entire courses and academic careers dedicated to doing exactly that. If today was the first time you went looking in the right section of the site to find our mirrorverse fic, then that fic is a new story to you and you should join the conversation.

These fics are there to be preserved so that people can always find and read and interact with them for the first time. That’s actually the entire point.

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dduane

milliethekitty27 asked:

Hello! I saw a comment you made where you said you made your work on AO3 members only - how did you do that? I'm looking to see how but nothing's giving me a straight answer lol. Thanks!

dduane answered:

This is the setting I'm using. I have no idea whether it's entirely foolproof... but it's a start. (I hope other more experienced AO3 members will add any necessary advice.)

#diane duane #fandom #fandom informative #ao3 #ao3 informative #archive of our own #ao3 members #ao3 members only #harassment #privacy #spambots #spam prevention

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orangepanic

Go read an old fic.

There’s such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what’s new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It’s just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

luulapants

I’d argue there’s a bias against like… middle-aged fics in particular. A lot of people sort by kudos or bookmarks, but that’s going to be strongly biased toward older fics, which have had more time to accumulate them. Then there’s people that sort by date and read the newest. But there’s so much good material in that middle area.

A friend taught me her trick for smaller fandoms, which is to sort by kudos and use the published date filters to go through the fandom in 6-month increments. Within a 6-month time span, you’re not really going to get the kudos-over-time bias. Basically, you end up reading the best fics of each 6-month period until you start hitting fics below your quality threshold, wherever that is. You’ll find so much good material that way that would never have crossed your line of sight otherwise.

gothiccharmschool

This is a clever idea, and I’m reblogging it so I remember to do it.

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#fandom #fandom positivity #fanfiction #fic positivity #fic writing #fic writing positivity #fic writers #fic writers positivity #ao3 #archive of our own #not dgmn #dgmn fandom relevant

fireflywitch

there’s this rush and this pressure, sometimes, for huge, mind-blowing numbers on ao3. thousands of kudos and comments and ppl obsessing over ratios, but like - there’s something so incredibly wonderful about, idk, even ten kudos. ten? you mean ten people, TEN total strangers, found something I wrote and clicked on it and read it and liked it? ten comments: you mean ten people took the time to tell me what they thought about my work, took the time and energy to write about MY WORK in their little comment bubble? ten people?? fifty?? one hundred???

but even just one - if one single person took the time out of their day to tell me how much they appreciate the little bit of my soul I just put out into the world - idk, it just means everything, doesn’t it?

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liminalweirdo

ao3 is not instagram, and it’s not embarrassing to comment on a story that’s old. we understand that you just happened to come across it now; writing is magical in that you often come across the right story at just the time you need to read it.

also, authors will literally cry over their keyboard if you comment on the stuff they write.

#liminalweirdo #fandom #fandom positivity #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 informative #fanfiction #fic positivity #fic writers #fic writers positivity #commenting #commenting positivity #this #not dgmn #dgmn fandom relevant #*Please respect Original Posters

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saltoftheao3

Golden Rules for Fanfiction Readers:

if the fic already has a thousand comments, comment still. Your comment will still matter and delight the author.
if a fic is a decade old and the author hasn’t been active in the last five years, comment still. There will come a time when the author will read and cherish your comment, or maybe it will motivate them enough to start writing again. You never know!
if the author never responds to comments, comment still. Interaction with the author is a very nice bonus, but you can be sure that even if the author doesn’t answer, they will read it and enjoy it at some point
there’s no such thing as a too long comment.
there’s no such thing as a too incoherent comment.
the author will give no flying fuck about any gramatical errors, typo or other misspellings. If you’re a non-native speaker struggling to express themselves, you can be sure the author will be all the more pleased that you surmounted the language barrier to let them know you appreciated their work. Don’t be afraid!
there’s no such thing as commenting too often.
you will never, ever come across as creepy by obsessing over a fic or an author to the point where you worry the author might think you’re a stalker. On the contrary, the author will be delighted by your investment in their work.
say thank you. It’s always appreciated to see readers acknowledge the work and commitment that is put into writing.
the floaty review box (ao3 add-on) is your friend
be positive and encouraging. Positive reviews make writers all warm and glowy from the inside, bashing plunge their soul into icy darkness. You want the first, not the second!
whoever you are, if you read their fic, YOU are IMPORTANT to the author. Let them know you’re there!

(if any author wants to contradict one of those rules, please let me know!)

(Submitted by @randomishnickname)

#fandom #fandom positivity #fanfiction #fic positivity #fic commenting #commenting #commenting positivity #ao3 #archive of our own #bilingual #speech issues #anxiety #fandom culture #*reblogging for the Commentary #(Saw this while browsing)#THIS #THIS THIS THIS THIS THI #(Is Much More What I LIKE To Experience)#(if any at ALL)#(aside from whatever the hell that blatant harassment spam was)#(there is a VAST difference when your INTENT is to be positive or encouraging or even just respectful & like Acknowledging the actual fic)#(MOST DECENT GOOD PPL ThatAreAlsoActuallyAdultslbr IN Western side of fandom)#(DO NOT Care)#(If someone gets routinely pissy & defensive over their portrayals when you even try to leave a POSITIVE comment thats on Them)#(Most fans are lucky enough to get quality not spam comments or unreasonable demands for more or the like AT ALL)#(btw positively encouraging that you'd like to see more or even variety is much more different than outright making DEMANDS)#(The first instance I could tell that commenter was not being genuine at all was because they DEMANDED me to do things)#(instead of acknowledging i'm a real human being outside of DigiAdvs and 02 fanbase involvement and THIS Would Instead Be Much Nicer)#(and absolutely did not bother to even frame it in a 'joking'ly positive way like even THAT would honestly be more preferable)#*Do Not Derail

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fireflywitch

there’s this rush and this pressure, sometimes, for huge, mind-blowing numbers on ao3. thousands of kudos and comments and ppl obsessing over ratios, but like - there’s something so incredibly wonderful about, idk, even ten kudos. ten? you mean ten people, TEN total strangers, found something I wrote and clicked on it and read it and liked it? ten comments: you mean ten people took the time to tell me what they thought about my work, took the time and energy to write about MY WORK in their little comment bubble? ten people?? fifty?? one hundred???

but even just one - if one single person took the time out of their day to tell me how much they appreciate the little bit of my soul I just put out into the world - idk, it just means everything, doesn’t it?

izzyizumi reblogged

#ao3 #ao3 informative #archive of our own #fandom monetization #fandom issues #fandom #us law #copyright law #IMPORTANT #(I see people consistently forgetting or not even knowing this lately)#(I've tried to explain it but)#(I can only explain so much about fandom history w us copyright laws)#(Please read this)#us informative #not dgmn #dgmn fandom relevant #(I hope I won't have to explain this again after a while but You Know)#wider fandom issues

For anyone who might be writing fic in order to raise money/donations for a cause, please remember not to mention that anywhere on AO3. It is against the Terms of Service to charge money for fic, even if that money is not going to you, personally. Please don’t mention commissions or donations or fundraising or patreon or kofi etc etc in a fic or on your profile. ❤

I will boost this signal, mostly for myself because my brain is apparently a fucking colander and I can’t remember shit sometimes; and also add, if you’re the one who commissioned a fic, don’t mention that on ao3 either. Not even in your bookmarks! I forget other people can see my notes there. Please don’t get your writing friends in trouble, like I almost did a couple of times :(

Just say ‘i asked for this pairing/trope/continuation/whatever’ Don’t say ‘i commissioned this’.

i’ve had “if you enjoy my writing, click here” with a link to my kofi in all of my end notes for a couple years and nothing’s happened, so maybe try that

thebibliosphere

Nope. You’re still breaking their TOS by having a site like ko-fi directly linked, and if anyone finds that out or someone reports you, you can lose your entire account. They have to enforce these rules in order to protect us from copyright laws. It’s why for decades individual fandom creators used to put “I do not own this work or profit from it” at the start of every fic/chapter.

What you can do, is say “follow me on tumblr” and promote your ko-fi on your tumblr. But I’ve seen people do the link to their ko-fi/patreon without explicitly mentioning them and still losing their accounts or getting hit by warnings cause someone reported them. (The one person I knew who outright lost their account just kept doing it repeatedly despite multiple warnings, like a doofus, so that was on them.)

(I think there may be exceptions for certain charity drives, but I don’t think ko-fi and patreon are protected by that)

peppernine

Hi! Former AO3 Abuse team member here! It’s been a bit, so I’ll admit that my knowledge may be slightly out of date. But generally speaking you cannot:

Link Directly to:

Kofi
Patreon
Amazon
Your private book site where you sell your writing
Any other fundraising site such as gofundme etc

If you link and are reported your work is in danger of being deleted, but you will be given a warning and time to fix any issues.

You also cannot mention that a work was directly commissioned with $$, hide the rest of your work/novel/chapter/ or in any way paywall the remainder of your work. Things like “support my writing here!!” are usually no go.

General phrasings like trade, requested, asked for, etc are OK.

Joy is correct in saying linking to your tumblr which advertises your kofi or fundraiser is ok.

If you are reported, the AO3 team will do their best to let you know EXACTLY what works and what phrasing is not allowed. They do issue a blanket “responsible for the rest of your works” statement so be thorough.

AO3 WILL NOT DELETE YOUR WORK, BAN YOU, OR IN ANY WAY REMOVE ITEMS WITHOUT WARNING. IF YOUR WORK IS DELETED YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL CONTAINING THE DELETED WORK. KEEP YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS CURRENT. NEVER USE A STUDENT EMAIL ACCOUNT.

thebibliosphere

Thank you for that 💖

trashgaylie-inactive

I have contacted the AO3 staff about this January 2020 and have been informed that I can mention a fanfiction has been commissioned, but not that I was paid in money.

Here’s the exact e-mail I’ve gotten.

Thank you for contacting us. You are allowed to mention that the work was commissioned, for example by saying “commissioned by {username]”, but not that you were paid money for the work, or that you are accepting commissions. Linking to a personal website or blog/social network where one is taking donations, posting commissions, or mentioning published works is permitted, but advertising it directly on AO3 is not. For example, you can say something to the effect of “check out my Tumblr if you want to know more about me and my writing” where you include the link to a Patreon site, but you cannot specifically state anything about accepting donations, seeking commisions, selling items, or link directly to a primarily commercial site like Patreon or Ko-Fi on AO3.

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therollingstonys

Oh you give author comment?? You give author little kudos on their fic?? LOVE FOR READER!! LOVE FOR READER FOR ONE MILLION YEARS!!

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ALT

If you or someone you know is getting spam comments from guests (rather than logged in users), you don't need to send in a report. You can just use the Spam button located at the bottom of every guest comment. The button will only be visible to the logged-in owner of the work.

If the volume of these spam comments is overwhelming, you can also edit a single work or edit multiple works to restrict commenting to only logged in users.

If you're a twitter user, I recommend following AO3_status over there. They're always on top of updates about site downtime and other issues.

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Dyslexia Friendly Ao3 Skin (or at least an attempt at)

I've been slowly working at a dyslexia friendly skin following the design suggestions I've found in the British Dyslexia Association Style Guide.

You can find it here with all the instructions to install it

It is still a work in progress and I'm begging for feedback so that I can make it better for everyone.

To Do List:

A dark mode is on the way. I'll post it on the link I've just posted, so if you find this post in a few months you'll be able to find it.
As soon as I can I aim to make the code more ordered, with lots of comments and a guide to change stuff for people who know nothing about css, so you can personalize it for your needs.
More color combinations.
Implement more stuff you ask me. I'm designing this by just following a guide, but it might be wrong in some areas and there might be more stuff that's good to add.

I’ve updated the link to have a guide on how to customize the skin even for people who know nothing about css!

Next thing I’m working on is going to be the dark mode (which I know people are waiting for. I’ll publish it on the same ao3 work in that link as a new chapter, so if you want to be reminded just follow that work)

AND DARK MODE IS HERE

The link is still the same: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30918077/chapters/76349072 in chapter 2 you’ll find the customization guide for people who know nothing about css and in chapter 3 the dark mode skin!