[ SECRET POST #7031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7031 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Orange is the New Black, Supergirl, The 100, Glee, Once Upon a Time, Korra/sequel to Avatar the last Airbender, Adventure Time, Camilla the webseries and Undertale]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 28 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1004.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[pengilly]

When your initial reply is blatantly condescending, I'm a little puzzled that you could be surprised when people reply with more of the same. People tend to meet you where you're at.

Still, I admit my patience was already worn thin from events out of my control that day, and I probably took things out on you, so I apologize for meeting tit-for-tat. I normally would have ignored tone altogether.

As for the main topic: Clearly the creators of AO3 care to some extent about its functioning as a fic discovery and reading site. Arguably not even to an extent—volunteers actively wrangle tags so that authors can tag in a way that entertains readers. They allow comment sections. To my knowledge, the site has always had those things.

Regardless, archives don't exist for works to indefinitely languish on the shelves. They exist so that works can be preserved and—this is key—rediscovered.

The fact that it is an archive arguably necessitates it work well as a fic reading site.

This is why there are functions like tag filtering, and aforementioned hidden search operators. To facilitate connecting fans with fic.

Folks looking find fics centered on a ship that is often only a side relationship, for example, can use the search operator otp: true, and they will get a page with fics where that is the only relationship tagged.

Being unable to filter solely for works that contain two (and only two) fandoms significantly diminishes the discoverability of specific kinds of storytelling-centered crossovers. Thus diminishing the likelihood they will be found amongst the deluge of one-shot collections and "reader x every woman from every franchise ever" fics years later.

I'm not sure how something like the otp: true filter could be implemented for works containing two fandoms (or fandom subtags), or if it's possible. I only know enough coding to fix basic formatting on my journal.

But OP was picking up on a real blind spot AO3 has as an archive, even if their intent was coming from a casual reader's perspective. It stands out on a site that otherwise is excellent when it comes to discoverability.