Archive of Our Own ^beta

Welcome to Revision 2998, up from 2850. 8 different coders worked on this release! \0/ [sparkles]

Highlights

Refactoring, performance fixes and automated tests

Our senior coders have been continuing to work on refactoring, performance fixes and automated tests in preparation for our upgrade to a newer version of Rails, the programming language the Archive is made in.

Skins

Skins are here at long last! You can now choose how the Archive displays fonts and colors when you're logged in to your account.

We have a few site skins ready-made for you. You can see a quick preview and the code we use to make them at the skins page. Now, when you look under "My Preferences", there is a drop-down menu that lets you choose a different look and feel for the archive. For more details on how to create and use Skins, please check out our Skins Tutorial.

This is just the beginning. Skins are still in beta, and we have some great plans for the future, including a much better Wizard to help people create their own skins.

Ebook downloads

Lots of fans asked for this, and we're very happy to be able to release it at last - we've added the option to download stories for your ebook reader. You can choose from epub, mobi and PDF formats.

Minimize your user page's inclusion in search engines

We've added a new preference, to minimize your user page's inclusion in search engine results. This isn't a guarantee, as not all search engines respect the guidelines, but it will help. This setting currently only affects your user profile - the next release will apply it to your works as well. However, if you want to make absolutely sure your works don't appear in search engines, you'll need to lock them to Archive users only.

Changing "Pairings" to "Relationships"

In order to reflect the purpose of the field more accurately, we have changed the 'Pairings' label on works to 'Relationships'. We think this better reflects the diversity of romantic configurations as well as encouraging people to include friendships in this field (this was always the plan, but we didn't advertise it well!).

Friendship tags work the same as pairing tags have worked in the past and, once the wranglers have wrangled them, take the canonical form "Sha Gojyo & Cho Hakkai", so this is what your friendship tags will look like in filters!

Known Issues

See our Known Issues page.

Release details

Features

• Introduction of Archive skins! This involved many, many separate code issues!


• Added the option to download works in mobile formats


• 'Read later' button - adds the work to your viewing history (if you have it enabled) and flags it as unread.


• Moved revision number from the header to the footer, for greater prettiness.


• Added sparkly logo for Archive birthday!


• Changed 'pairings' to 'relationships' across the Archive.


• Added lots more automated tests for collections, skins, chapter rearrangement, autocompletes, tag wrangling, visibility, series rearrangement, support form and CSS sanitization.


• Split different advanced search types onto separate pages.


• Added the option to minimize the inclusion of works and user profiles in search engines.


• Added lots and lots of new options for colored text!


• Added the option to mark series as works in progress or complete.


• Added a feature to suggest posting a work or bookmark to users who have nothing on their user homepage.

Bug Fixes

• Fix for broken bookmark autocomplete.


• Text areas (like the post work form) were affected by a very annoying bug in IE8, which made the text jump after every edit. We added an IE8-specific style sheet to get around IE8's bugginess.


• Fix for bug which caused errors when wranglers added synonyms to a canonical freeform tag.


• Importing works: Ensured that the original posted-on date is preserved when a work is imported form another site.


• Fix for bug preventing the creation of new series.


• Fix for bug which erroneously caused works to appear as if they belonged to collections.


• Ensured that users will not see the date in their local time if it is the same as the Archive default time (so they don't see the same date twice).


• Fix for some inaccuracies in character counter.


• Fix for overzealous imports from Yuletide - these no longer import navigation!


• Changed outdated 'challenges' link in site map.


• Ensured that works still get added to history when read chapter-by-chapter.


• Ensured that 'add to collection' link appeared when viewing works chapter-by-chapter.


• Ensured that 'redirect to back' will work without an error for users who have set their browsers not to send referrer information.


• Ensured that running our automated tests does not send test messages to our Support bug tracker!


• Fixed minor inconsistencies in HTML and grammar of our TOS.


• Added a hyphen on the Archive homepage.


• Fixed a problem causing the wrong name to appear in notifications for co-authors.

Willkommen zur Revision 2998, die auf Revision 2850 folgt. 8 verschiedene Programmiererinnen haben an dieser Veröffentlichung gearbeitet.

Anmerkung der Übersetzerinnen: Alle Links in diesem Text führen zum Archiv, das zur Zeit nur auf Englisch vorliegt. Für weitere Details siehe die englische Version der Anmerkungen.

Highlights

Refaktorierung, Leistungsverbesserung und automatisierte Tests

Unsere erfahrenen Programmiererinnen haben in Vorbereitung auf die Aktualisierung zu einer neuen Rails-Version weiter an Refaktorierung, Leistungsverbesserung und automatisierten Tests gearbeitet. Rails ist die Programmiersprache, in der das Archiv geschrieben wird.

Designs

Die langersehnten Designs sind da! Ihr könnt jetzt einstellen, in welchen Schriften und Farben das Archiv dargestellt wird, wenn ihr mit eurem Nutzerkonto eingeloggt seid.

Wir haben einige fertige Designs für euch vorbereitet. Eine kurze Vorschau sowie den verwendeten Code seht ihr auf der Seite für Designs. Unter "My Preferences" ("Meine Einstellungen") gibt es jetzt ein Aufklappmenü, in dem ihr das Aussehen des Archivs für euch bestimmen könnt. Mehr Informationen darüber, wie man Designs benutzt und erstellt, findet ihr in unserem Design-Tutorial.

Aber das ist erst der Anfang. Die Designs sind noch in der Betaphase und wir haben große Pläne für die Zukunft: etwa einen viel besseren Design-Assistenten, der euch beim Erstellen eigener Designs hilft.

E-Book-Downloads

Auf eure zahlreichen Wünsche hin haben wir die Funktion hinzugefügt, Geschichten in gängigen E-Book-Formaten herunterzuladen. Ihr könnt zwischen epub, mobi und PDF wählen.

Verringern des Auftauchens eurer Nutzerprofile in Suchmaschinen

Wir haben eine neue Einstellung hinzugefügt, mit der ihr die Wahrscheinlichkeit verringern könnt, mit der euer Nutzerprofil in Suchergebnissen externer Suchmaschinen auftaucht. Zwar können wir nicht garantieren, dass alle Suchmaschinen diese Richtlinien einhalten, aber es hilft auf jeden Fall. Momentan betrifft das nur euer Profil – in der nächsten Veröffentlichung werden wir das auf eure Werke ausweiten. Falls ihr absolut nicht wollt, dass eure Geschichten bei Google auftauchen, müsst ihr den Zugriff auf Archivnutzer beschränken.

"Pairings" werden zu "Beziehungen"

Um den Zweck des Stichwortfeld besser wiederzugeben, heißen "Pairings" von jetzt an "Beziehungen" ("Relationships"). Wir glauben, dass damit die Vielfalt romantischer Verflechtungen besser dargestellt wird und außerdem Nutzerinnen eher dazu ermutigt werden, auch Freundschaften in diesem Feld einzutragen (wozu es zwar immer schon gedacht war, was wir aber nicht deutlich genug gemacht haben).

Freundschafts-Stichwörter funktionieren genauso wie die früheren Pairing-Stichwörter. Sobald die Stichwortsortiererinnen sich ihrer angenommen haben, erscheinen sie in der offiziellen Form "Sha Gojyo & Cho Hakkai", und so sehen eure Freundschafts-Stichwörter dann auch in den Filtern aus.

Bienvenid@ a la Revisión 2998, actualizando la número 2850. ¡8 programadoras diferentes trabajaron en esta revisión! \0/ [brillitos]

Estos son los puntos destacados de la Versión 0.8.1. Para leer los detalles de todos los cambios, por favor lee las Release Notes (en Inglés).

Puntos Importantes

Refactorización, arreglos al rendimiento y pruebas automatizadas

Nuestras programadoras más antiguas han seguido trabajando en refactorización, arreglos al rendimiento y pruebas automatizadas en preparación de nuestro cambio a la más reciente versión de Rails, el lenguaje de programación en el cual está hecho el Archivo..

Temas

¡Por fin tenemos temas! Ahora puedes elegir cómo el Archivo muestra fuentes y colores desde tu cuenta de usuario.

Tenemos unos pocos temas para el sitio ya hechos. Hay una vista previa y el código usado para hacerlas en la página de temas [NT: en inglés]. Ahora, bajo "My Preferences" (Mis preferencias) hay un menú que te deja elegir un aspecto para el archivo. Para obtener más detalles sobre cómo crear y usar Temas, por favor mira nuestro Tutorial de temas [NT: en inglés].

Este es sólo el comienzo. Los Temas todavía están en beta, y tenemos grandes planes para el futuro, incluyendo una interfaz mucho mejor para ayudar a la gente a crear sus propios temas y la opción de agregar imágenes de vista previa para tus temas.

Bajar Ebooks

Muchos fans pidieron esto, y estamos muy felices de poder ofrecerlo finalmente -- hemos agregado la opción de bajarte historias para tu lector de ebooks. Puedes elegir entre los formatos de epub, mobi, y PDF.

Minimiza la inclusión de tu página de usuario en motores de búsqueda

Hemos agregado una nueva opción, para minimizar la inclusión de tu página de usuario en resultados de motores de búsqueda. Esto no es una garantía, ya que no todos los motores de búsqueda respetan las reglas, pero ayudará. Esta opción actualmente sólo afecta su perfil de usuario - la versión siguiente lo aplicará también a tus obras. Sin embargo, si quieres estar absolutamente seguro que tus obras no aparecerán en motores de búsqueda, necesitarás limitar su acceso a sólo los usuarios del Archivo.

Cambio de "Pairings" (Parejas) a "Relationships" (Relaciones)

Para reflejar el objetivo del campo de texto más correctamente, hemos cambiado la etiqueta 'Pairings' a 'Relationships'. Pensamos que esto refleja mejor la diversidad de las configuraciones románticas como así también fomentará la inclusión de amistades en este campo (¡este era siempre el plan, simplemente no lo publicitamos muy bien!).

Las etiquetas de amistad funcionan de la misma manera que etiquetas de parejas han funcionado en el pasado y, una vez que los organizadores de etiquetas las han organizados, toman la forma canónica de "Sha Gojyo & Cho Hakkai", ¡así que así se verán tus etiquetas de amistad en los filtros!

Skins are here at long last! You can now choose how the Archive displays fonts and colours when you're logged in to your account. So, if you'd like a larger font, or you want lower contrast, or you just really love the colour green, you can tweak the Archive to look how you want it to look.

Please note that the skin you choose only affects how you see the Archive, not how your works display to other people.

What is a skin?

A skin is a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file that changes how a webpage displays in your browser. Skins change font size, font face, and display colours for each user, providing a reading experience customized to your wants and needs.

Who creates skins?

The Archive coders have a few site skins ready-made for you. You can also create skins for yourself (more details follow), and use skins created by users which have been publicly shared.

How do I change my skin?

You must be a logged-in user to use skins. There are two ways to change the skin you use for the Archive:

• Go to 'My Preferences' under your user home. Under the 'Site Display' section there is a drop-down menu where you can choose from all approved and publicly available skins, as well as your own skins. Simply select the skin you want and select 'Update'.


• Go to the Public Skins page where you can view all publicly available skins. Select the skin you want by clicking the "Use" button. The page will reload using the selected skin.

How do I create a skin?

Skins are created using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). If you've never used CSS before, fear not - it's easy to pick up the basics. We also have a Skins Wizard to help people who are unfamiliar with CSS - this is still in beta, and we'll be adding more options to this in the future.

Creating a skin using Custom CSS

• Go to 'My Skins' under your user home and select 'Create New Skin'. By default, you'll be taken to the page for entering Custom CSS.


• You can use a limited range of CSS properties and values. The full range of allowed CSS is listed under the Archive Interface section of our FAQ, or you can select CSS help (accessible via the blue question mark) to access the list of allowed properties and values directly on the page. You can also use the Allowed Value Autocomplete to check whether a particular value is allowed - just start typing the value and see whether our autocomplete recognizes it. For example, typing 'lemon' will bring up the value 'lemonchiffon', one of our allowed colour values.


• Your skin title is a short descriptor that lets you remember what this skin is like. You can enter more detail in the Description field. Then you input the CSS you want. You can also add a preview image - this is entirely optional for private skins, but you must include a preview if you want to submit the skin for public use.


• If you check the 'public skin' box, it will submit your skin to be added to the site skins available to everyone. Our volunteers will check it over to make sure it is appropriate, and then add it to the public skins. Please note: Once a skin submitted as public has been officially approved, you will no longer be able to edit or delete it. Please be sure you are happy with this before submitting a public skin! Please also note that not all skins will be approved.


• When you've filled in all your choices, select 'Create' to save your skin.


• Once you have saved your skin, it will appear as an option in the drop-down menu on your preferences, and will show up under 'My Skins'.


• Select your new skin as described under 'How do I change my skin?'

If your skin is not public, only you will see it in the drop-down menu in 'My Preferences', and only you can access it.

If you need help writing custom CSS you can browse the code of existing skins under Public Skins to see examples of the kind of code you can use. There are lots of great general resources for CSS online - we recommend the W3 Schools CSS tutorials as a great place to start. There's also an unofficial AO3 skins community on Dreamwidth - check out ao3_skins for other shareable skins and help and advice from other fans.

Creating a skin using the Skins Wizard

Please note: This feature is in extreme beta and lots more spiffy user-friendly features will be added in the future.

• Skin title: A short descriptor that lets you remember what this skin is like.


• Description: this is where you can put more detail about the skin.


• Width of margins: This will set the width of the margins on works pages (i.e. when you are viewing a story). The default is 3 - using a bigger number will give you bigger margins, and a smaller number will make the margins smaller!


• Font, with comma-separated fallbacks: This will set the font used for all body text (e.g. works, summaries, etc but not titles or headings). Just input the name of the font you would like to use. If that font is not installed on the computer you are using, then the Archive will 'fall back' to your next favourite font - either the next font in your list, or the Archive's own default fonts. For example, if you put 'Papyrus, Comic Sans' then the Archive will display in Papyrus if you have it, but if it doesn't find Papyrus on your machine it will display in Comic Sans instead.


• Background colour: This will set the main background colour for the Archive, i.e. the main page colour. You can specify the name of the colour you want, or for more control use the hex colour code - the W3 Schools list of colour codes lists the most common of these.


• Foreground colour: This will set the font colour for the Archive. You can specify the name of the colour you want, or for more control use the hex colour code - the W3 Schools list of colour codes lists the most common of these.


• Relative font size: This will set the size of your font. The default is 100 - if you pick a number bigger than this, the font will enlarge. If you pick a number smaller than 100, the font size will decrease!

How do I add a preview image for my skin?

Create a screenshot of how the Archive looks while using your skin and save it in PNG, JPEG or GIF format. Edit the skin and use the Browse (or Choose, in some browsers) button to navigate to your image. Click Update. The image will appear as a clickable thumbnail, leading to the original image.

What happens when I submit a skin as public?

1. The skin will be added to a list for review by Archive admins, and will appear as 'Pending approval' on your Skins page.


2. An Archive admin will review the skin for security, accessibility, and innovation and decide whether or not it should be added to our range of Public Skins. Please note that skins will not be reviewed immediately, and not all skins will be accepted.


3. The admin will decide whether to approve or reject your skin:

• If they accept the skin, it will be marked 'Approved' on your Skins page and added to the range of available Public Skins. You will no longer be able to edit this skin. The admin may add a short comment which will also be visible on your Skins page - this will not be visible to other users.


• If they reject the Skin, it will be marked 'Rejected' on your Skins page. The admin will usually add a short note explaining their decision.

What if I want a particular skin?

If you want a particular design for the Archive, you can create it yourself! If you don't have the skills, you can browse Public Skins to see if someone else has created something you like. You can also try asking at the unofficial ao3_skins community for help.

If you have particular accessibility needs which you think might be met by a skin, then get in touch with our Support team for help. (We can't create custom skins for individual users, but we are keen to develop skins that will address issues for groups of users, particularly where accessibility is a factor.)

As always, if you have questions about how skins work or hit a problem, our Support team will be happy to help. Go forth and customise your Archive!

The Archive Of Our Own is in a celebratory mood! We have a lot to celebrate, including a full year of running on our own servers, and the 100,000^th work posted to the AO3 (lunarknightz' Only Makes You Stronger was lucky number 100k!)

So we're going to mark the occasion with a Birthday Party, and everyone is invited! \o/

The festivities will be held Monday 13 September from midnight to midnight UTC.
(What is the starting time where I live? and What is the ending time where I live?)

We'll be holding the party in the OTW's public discussion chatroom. Just head for this URL and type in the name you'd like to represent you, and you'll be in: https://fanarchive.campfirenow.com/28473

Like any good first birthday party this one will involve gifts, decorations, and games.

Gifts: We'll be offering commemorative graphics, and attendees can also win secret awesome surprise presents! And! We'll be celebrating the launch of an eagerly anticipated new feature or three.
Decorations: The Archive logo will temporarily look a little...festive. \o/
Games: We'll hold an uploading challenge, a few mini-recs festivals, an AO3 anthropomorphic chatfic challenge, a few instant polls, and more!

Of course, the continuing growth and success of the AO3 as a permanent, stable, noncommercial, and nonprofit archive for transformative fanworks that is completely free to use for fans around the world needs your support! We'll need new servers, and more servers, and we'll also need more fans ready to help by learning to code, wrangle tags, answer support tickets, teach new volunteers, and...raise money and recruit new staff by writing posts like this one! Please consider making a donation or getting involved!

*We don't plan to kick anyone out at midnight! Far from it, we tend to keep on celebrating -- but when we hit the end of our birthday day, we pass from structured fun into debauchery and dissolution unstructured fun!

Also posted on the OTW blog at transformativeworks.org.

In a crazy break from tradition we held out meeting on Sunday this time, to allow me (AD&T's dedicated chair) to regather my brains after a week spent travelling and mostly offline.

Server birthday - party plans!

Last meeting we were looking forward to our plans for buying new servers. This time we were looking back - to the moment one year ago when we bought the first Servers of Our Own! Yes, the Archive's servers will celebrate their birthday on Monday 13th September! We're incredibly proud of everyone in the OTW and of fandom at large for making it possible for fandom to own the goddamn servers!

We'll be holding a party to celebrate all this fannish awesome - watch out for more details shortly! We hope that lots of you will show up to celebrate the wonderful things that you have made possible.\0/

We've got some extra special Archive tweaks planned to celebrate our servers' birthday - we decided to hold on the (VERY SHINY) new code we've been working on to make some final polishes so that we can deploy a really special release as our birthday gift to fandom.

Next deploy - PARTY GIFTS

As we reported in our last AD&T update, our next release will be chock full of delicious features! After many user requests and much anticipation, we'll finally be rolling out Skins and Mobile Exports! We know we're going to make lots of people happy with this release - not least us!

In order to spiff up the new code and make it extra shiny, we've held onto it and put some additional polish. We're currently putting the finishing touches and testing to within an inch of its life, ready to deploy the new code just in time for the beginning of the 13th of September (somewhere in the world *g*).

AO3 Search Plugin

A while ago, our fabulous user Punk created a search plugin for Archive users. She's updated it to give better results - download it from the AO3 page at the Mycroft Project. If you were using the old plugin, you'll need to uninstall that before installing the new one. Thanks, Punk!

Terminology change - pairings to relationships

We're changing the name of the field currently known as 'Pairings' to 'Relationships' to reflect its purpose more clearly. If you're interested in reading more about how and why we made this decision, check out our post on the Anatomy of a Change.

News from our sub-committees and sister committees

• Coders have been working hard to get our last-minute improvements in before the birthday celebrations.


• Testers have welcomed a new team co-lead, Kylie, and have been working to ensure that all our last-minute code is truly as shiny as it should be.


• Tag wranglers were super-active as usual, and in addition to their regular business were responsible for spearheading the change from 'pairings' to 'relationships'.


• Support welcomed a new commitee chair, Megan Westerby, and worked on some policy and long-term planning, while keeping up with their great work supporting our users on a day-to-day basis.

If there are things you'd like to do or say, please share them in comments, via the AO3 support and feedback form, by volunteering, or in whatever medium you feel comfortable with. Everyone is welcome to this party!

Our upcoming release includes a small change in the terminology we use in work headers. We'll be changing from referring to 'Pairings' to using 'Relationships'. If you're posting new works, you'll see this change on the work form. If you're browsing the Archive, you'll see it on individual work headers.

We've made this change in order to better reflect the diversity of romantic configurations (threesomes! moresomes! polyamorous relationships!), and to make it clearer that this field can also be used for friendships.

Friendship tags work the same as pairing tags have worked in the past and, once the wranglers have wrangled them, take the canonical form "Sha Gojyo & Cho Hakkai" - this is what your friendship tags will look like in filters!

We chose the term 'Pairings' originally because many fandoms use this in headers as a generic term for all relationships. However, in view of the fact that this does not apply across all fandoms, we think the new terminology is both clearer and more inclusive.

Like many of the decisions made about the Archive, this small change involved consultation with lots of people. We thought our users might appreciate a little glimpse of how different committees work together to develop the Archive:

1. Our volunteer tag wranglers, always looking for ways to increase fannish inclusiveness, pointed out that 'Pairings' is not a universal fannish term. They also raised the matter that while friendship tags were already in use within the AO3, most users didn't realise that the 'Pairings' field was the place we intended to hold those as well. They discussed the issue on the tag wrangling mailing list and recommended that a change to the name of the field to 'Relationships' would make its use clearer.


2. The Tag Wrangling Committee (who manage the volunteer wranglers) examined the recommendation and discussed it with Support and International Outreach to get their feedback on the proposed change.


3. Support agreed that the change would increase clarity for users, and pointed out that 'Relationships' is a more inclusive term which helps to avoid privileging a certain type of relationship over others, giving equal value to different configurations of romantic relationships and to non-romantic and non-sexual relationships.


4. International Outreach discussed the issue and agreed that 'Relationships' would be more neutral and easier to translate more directly into the many different languages we hope to introduce to the archive.


5. The Tag Wrangling committee summarised this discussion for the Accessibility, Design and Technology Committee and presented the proposed change.


6. AD&T discussed the proposal with reference to the technical issues involved. Even though this is a very small change from the user's point of view, it involved changes to more than 70 different files in the project - the kind of tricksy change that can easily lead to an error creeping in. However, AD&T agreed that the change was worth making and passed the issue to the team of volunteer coders to implement.


7. Senior coder Sidra made the change for the whole site. \0/

This change ended up involving lots of our teams - the majority of Archive development only involves one or two committees and is correspondingly faster. We think this is an excellent demonstration of the value we place on our ability to discuss issues from diverse points of view, allowing us to draw on a variety of experience and expertise. Our diversity is our strength, and it reflects the diversity of our users and supporters. We wouldn't have it any other way.

We believe that paying attention to issues like this, that seem small but have numerous implications, helps us to make the Archive accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to everyone. We welcome user feedback on all aspects of the Archive - just drop us a line via our Support and Feedback form.

This meeting was small but perfectly formed, with quite a few of our members off on other business or pleasure.

Plans afoot - new servers!

The most exciting thing on AD&T's agenda this month was our meeting with our fantastic Systems committee to talk about upgrading the servers for the Archive! Although we bought our existing servers less than a year ago (their birthday is on the 10th September!) the Archive is already growing beyond their capacity - we now have more than 8000 users, who create more than a thousand new works each week! In this month's meeting we discussed what kind of setup we want to move to and set the process of getting quotes in motion - so exciting! The new servers will remove one of the main obstacles in the way of hosting fanart on the Archive, so we're extra excited about having this in sight. \0/

Next deploy - shiny new features!

Our work testing the new code on our Test archive is continuing, and we hope to deploy these new features to the real Archive by the end of August. This is going to be an awesome release with some hotly anticipated features!

Mobile Exports

Yes, you read that right, the forthcoming release will introduce the option to download works to enjoy offline on a variety of mobile devices! You'll be able to export works in mobi, epub and pdf formats! Lots and lots of users have asked for this feature, and with mobile devices like the Kindle getting ever more affordable we think this feature will be useful to lots of fans! A very special thank you to the lovely Meri_Oddities and Melina, who gave a little inducement to our coders to move forward on the plans for this feature in the form of a generous donation to the OTW and invaluable technical assistance. Their support made us very happy, and we know the results will make our users happy too!

Skins

Yes, we've been babbling about these for some time now, and they are really on their way! We're jazzed about them both because we know fans love pretty customisation, and because they make it MUCH easier to cater for people with specific viewing requirements such as low contrast or large fonts. Accessibility is really important to us and we're happy to be able to introduce this feature.

Invitations on the Archive!

We'd like to remind everyone that the Archive is very much an open party! We're still invitation only, as we need to monitor the number of new users in case of unexpected problems, but everyone who joins our invitations queue wll receive an invitation, usually within a few days. In addition you can share the love by going to the Invitations tab under your user home and requesting some invitations to give out to your friends. If you want to run a challenge or move a larger community to the Archive, feel free to make a request for a larger number of invitations - just let us know what you want them for. We'd love to see a more diverse range of fandoms on the Archive - there are now over 5000, but some are definitely better represented than others!

News from our sub-committees and sister committees

• Coders are fixing bugs in the new code as our testers find them, writing automated tests, and trying to sneak other new features in under the nose of their chair *g*. They've also welcomed several new coders and run some fabulous training to help other coders develop,


• Testers are working on our new set of code on the Archive, and thinking about the epic tasks ahead when we do our big upgrade to Rails 3.


• Tag wranglers have been putting together new policies on terminology (there'll be a couple of changes in upcoming releases), talking about better handling for tags in challenges, and generally being busy.


• Support have been busy busy bees as usual keeping up with a host of user queries, from problems with sign-ins to help on running challenges.

If there are things you'd like to do or say, please share them in comments, via the AO3 support and feedback form, by volunteering, or in whatever medium you feel comfortable with. Everyone is welcome to this party!