An Archive Of Our Own is open

[icarus]

The beta version of An Archive Of Our Own is open!

And it's opening on schedule. Color me impressed.

Also open: Fanlore, which is associated with An Archive Of Our Own.

Comments

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

i'm amazed at the tagging function. it will be like LJ and delicious and recs lists in one.

*ponders*

The second gateway.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I left long detailed feedback about the recs list section.

We definitely need it to default to sorting by reccer (that's how we look for rec lists in fandom).

The recs need to not be listed on the author profile -- if they have a lot of fics the recs will be buried at the bottom of a hundred stories -- but open on a different page by reccer.

To help newbies sort the "people who rec hundreds of fics" from the occasional reccer (the hobbyist as it 'twere), I think there should be a count of recs next to the member name, and we should be able to sort by number of recs (like the "popular bookmarks" feature in delicious). We can't qualify who has the best recs, but we can quantify who puts in the time to rec fics for fandom. It will reward those folks who put in the reading time for all of us.

Lastly, that description field for the rec needs to be bigger that what you see on delicious, because the best reccers write a paragraph about the fic, like this (http://regan-v.livejournal.com/58513.html), or this (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/90602.html).

Then our archive will totally top delicious. Having a bigger description field will totally get me to use the Archive instead of delicious.

The Recs section is important.

Recs are the second gateway into fandom. Our archive will have so many fics it will be like the books are on the floor (in neat piles by fandom and author, yet, still, on the floor).

The recs section is where people will go next. The doorway to good fic (at least according to the reccer).

How many people have open up ff.net, picked a fic at random, and decided fanfic is terrible?

The Recs section is how we can avoid that.

Re: The second gateway.

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

you are wise, my queen.