Everyone chill the fuck down! It's a fanfic archive, not a device to destroy the universe!

[jassanja]

2 years ago

Fandom: OMG!!!!!!! We are going to build an archive!!! We are going to own the servers!!!! OMG!!! It will be so great!! Easy to use and for EVERYONE!!!!!

jassanja: hmmm.... *waits to see how the big plans will turn out*


Present Day

AO3: *goes into Open Beta*

Fandom: *ANGST* It's so complicated!!!! The warnings do not warn what I want them to warn!!! Tags Wuzzles Freeform Tags are so complicated!!!!! If I tag something wrong the Tag Wrangles are going to hate me FOREVAH!!!!!!*ANGST*

Tag Wranglers: *ANGST* Make one mistake and the whole Archive Internet Planet Universe will break down!!!!!!! Tag something wrong and all of Fandom will hate us FOREVAH!!!!!!!!!!!

jassanja: *loves the archive and thinks that it is really easy to use for reading/archiving/feedbacking/filtering tags*






(I'm not a tag wrangler, but a friend is, and she says it's really hard to break things, and they are not telling everyone how to tag their stuff, they are just there to make sure if that if you search for Snarry you get not just stories tagged Snarry but also stories tagged Snotter, Snape/Harry, Harry/Severus, Severitus, Severus Snape/Harry Potter or every other possible form thereof)

Comments

[samvara]

*rofl*

Half the coders now want to build a doomsday device :p

*adds to schedule*

[jassanja]

The evil overloards of Fanfic should take over domination of the Universe

great you could get a laugh out of my frustration with everyone who is just too afraid to use the AO3, and see if they use it the right way in a few weeks or months

[samvara]

Thanks for the humour injection!

I spoke too soon; they're planning a doomsday device... *cowers*

"I think we can still incorporate the boiling oil as long as we clearly mark it as such... so that those who are uncomfortable with high temperature antipersonnel devices can know to avoid it"

...it's not that hard - I bet it just requires a little javascript ;)...

We've been launched for all of 9 days and people are still figuring a lot of things out - so are we ;)