I was wondering what was up with AO3, and then I saw this.

Truth is, you can plan for gradual userbase increase all you want, but when something like that happens, all bets are off.

Poor James!

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folks, it's that time of year again for the OTW Membership Drive. Even a donation of $10 will show your support and earn you a place at the table with say-so during elections. More importantly, you will be paying for the fanly services you are most likely enjoying on a daily basis. Please, please chip in to keep the AO3 and other servers running ( Read more... )

this seems kind of silly since everyone will have already read these if they were interested. well, the anomalies are interesting I guess.

My Top Ten Hits on AO3:

All For Grace 9660 (H50, Steve/Danny, PG, 7552 words) : The one where Steve goes full-on ninja to rescue Grace. The whole team + cast do, actually.

A.W.O.L. 9445 (SGA/SG-1, John/ ( Read more... )

Free to a good home: I have a spare copy of Person of Interest S1 DVD set, gently used, free to a good home in the U.S. I'll pay postage ( Read more... )

I've resigned as Systems Chair and Systems Staffer at the OTW. It's been 4.5 years of really rewarding, engaging work. I've worked with a crew of really amazing volunteers and helped build something pretty damned huge from something much smaller. When I started at the Org we only had three puny servers, one for the Archive; we now serve millions ( Read more... )

For those of us in Sentinel fandom, the 852 Prospect Archive move to AO3 is gearing up! Here's more about it. If you are a writer and have already imported your stories to AO3, do what I did and edit your stories to add them to the 852 Prospect Collection so you won't get duped on import (and so the old archive links will now redirect to your ( Read more... )

Folks: at long last we are upgrading Fanlore to the latest in MediaWiki version \o/ However, this means we will be down for an approximate 2 hour window while we copy the database and files and such ( Read more... )

so, yesterday in Systems we were discussing having to buy more/bigger disks for the Archive, while projecting the rate of PORN filling our db versus available diskspace, and ditto for the Fanlore/Journal/Symposium server, and, you know, these things cost money, people! you can't just keep collecting stuff and posting stuff and not have places to ( Read more... )

Systems made a DNS cock-up, and it will take a little while for the fix to propagate, but the AO3 was not hacked. (it was a typo, okay? ransformativeworks.org is just not correct. neither is transofrmativeworks.org, one I'm fond of hammering out with great frequency. Systems is one of those jobs where a single letter out of place can really ( Read more... )

It's SysAdmin Day! and this is going out to the Systems Monkeys at the Org, and SysAdmins everywhere, who work so hard and for very little recognition. Not sure who all I'm allowed to mention by name except those I already have, so: James and sixtail and Sidra and all seven of the rest of you: it takes a village to keep the wheels turning under this beast ( Read more... )