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⌈ Secret Post #3260 ⌋

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[Garden of Time]

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[Fargo, Karl x Sonny]

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[Elementary]

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[Top Chef]

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[The Pacific/HBO War]

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[Penn Jillette]

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[Final Fantasy X]

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[Shadow of Mordor]

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[Judging Amy]

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[The Lion Guard]

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(Borderlands)

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[Anziz Ansari, Master of None]

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[Pokemon]

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[Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3/Pokémon Conquest/Japanese history]

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1. One thing I like better about ff.net is that you can separate out the finished from the unfinished works; on AO3, you can only click that little thing that let's you read completed works. I wish there was a way to toggle between "all works", "completed works" and "in-progress works".

2. I want a "crossover" tag that's automatically added to any fanfic with more than one fandom, so that you can filter things out by -"crossover".

3. It is really annoying that you can't select a range of ratings, again, like on FF.net. Sometimes I want to read everything but the explicit works, but I can't sort it like that, and I hate it.

You can do it, you just gotta use tags and "search within". I think explicit is... 12 or 13, can't remember which (one is mature, the other is explicit). So to exclude explicit fic, you'd enter '-filter_ids:13' in the Search Within field. If you wanted to include just mature and explicit fic, you'd put 'filter_ids:12 || filter_ids:13'.

They should really publish these tag IDs, tbh, it makes the site so much more useful.

Like, I get that's a thing that I could do, but it bugs me that that's what I have to do, and I like ff.net better in this regard.

Oh fair enough.

I'm okay with tag ninja'ing, especially since once you learn to do that it's such a fucking powerful, useful search system.

I guess it just works really well with my particular way of thinking.

Not everyone is an asperger though.

Neither do I, as it happens.

Also, it's really not a very complicated system. It's actually incredibly easy.

I've used the tag filtering system - -"reader" has been lovely, but when it starts getting into memorizing code numbers instead of just clicking a button, it starts getting ridiculous.

I mean, it'd be better if it was baked in, but the functionality exists.

Sure, but in a way that's not as intuitive as on ff.net, which is kind of annoying, because I like AO3 a lot better in a lot of different ways, but this is just stupid.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(You know what else is stupid? 4. The fact that people's names can have "" in them, like James "Bucky" Buchanan, which makes the whole -"character" thing completely pointless).

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it does work properly but only if you use the tag ID (which is findable for characters, ships, and fandoms through the RSS feed links)

Again I agree that this is not intuitive or a satisfactory design decision. At the same time, I think it's mostly a consequence of having the tags work the way they do - where for instance you can have multiple ways of typing the tag & they all mean the same thing, and where tags have parents and children - and that's a really powerful functionality.

Yeah, like you said, that's not really helpful. It wouldn't be so bad if you could save searches, instead of having to type them in every time, but the fact that I have to memorize a separate ID code for everything I dislike? I'm gonna call that a fail on AO3's part. Sure, maybe their functionality might be powerful, but if it's not intuitive for the user... That's pretty fail.

I just save shit in a notepad file.

And, again, I think it is a difficult challenge to figure out how to integrate those things into search on the top level, while preserving the tag functionality. Like, you would basically need a way to take the current "Additional Tags" functionality and also make it have Boolean functionality.

I've done that as well, but it's annoying.

Hell, even if there was, at least, a way to save it to your AO3 profile, so you could access it even when you're not at the computer with the notepad doc would be helpful.

2. The crossover thing wouldn't be an issue if they'd had the good idea of a mandatory "is this a crossover? Y/N" every time someone inputs more than one fandom.

The problem with multifandom collections wouldn't change, but at least it would be easy to search or avoid crossovers.

Oh my god that would be amazing. :O

Add in an obligatory "is this a collection", and I would be so down for it! I might mis a non-multifandom collection, but who cares? Not me!

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