Notes on defaulting and... notes! Also, posting in chapters

[elynross]

When you default by clicking the "default" button on the "My Assignments" page in your AO3 account (archiveofourown.org/users/[AO3 pseud]/assignments), it automatically notifies the mods, and your assignment will disappear from that page.

However, if you then click on the "Your Assignment" link on the Yuletide 2010 collection sidebar (

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[robling_t]

It's possible for a chapter to remain as a draft/unposted while all the rest post.

And you may have to thump things several times, as I discovered RE an unrelated multi-chapter story I was posting the other day; check it from different angles of attack if one chapter (like, oh, say, CHAPTER TWO) is persistently missing in any of the tallies... {sigh}

[elynross]

Yeah, I became aware of it because a middle chapter was missing for someone! They are aware of the issue, and are thinking about ways to at least make it more obvious!

[robling_t]

AO3 has definitely improved immensely over some of my earliest experiences with it, but some of its quirks still manage to drive me up a wall, especially because they tend to fall into that "...um, so, wait, which one of us is the crazy one?!?" caching-issues area that leaves me wondering which thing I'm not clicking in the right order for it this time...

[frogy]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but you can see if something has been submitted for Yuletide in a specific fandom when browsing the archive by fandom (for example, the top link at this link is "Mystery Work" for Yuletide 2010).

[rebecca2525]

You can see the list of submitted YT story fandoms anyway by looking at http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2010/fandoms. That's a feature, not a bug. ;-)

[fleurlb]

Apologies if this is covered in another post, but I'm confused. I uploaded my story but when I go to the My Assignment page, it says that my story hasn't been posted yet. The story is listed as part of the Yuletide 2010 collection.

Do I need to do anything to fix this?

[rebecca2525]

If you edit your story, you should see three fields filled: The little checkbox beneath "Does this fullfill a challenge assignment?", the collection name "yuletide2010" beneath "Post to Collections/Challenges" and your recipient name beneath "Recipient(s): (if this work is a gift)".

[fleurlb]

Brilliant! Thank you so much - the page now says that my assignment is done. A huge relief - thanks for taking the time to set me right,

[anonymous]

Whereas on the old site Author's Notes remained hidden along with the authors' names until January 1st, on the AO3 this is not the case. You may want to leave off any self-incriminating/identifying information until after the reveal!

All of the stories I've posted so far have Author's Notes. I didn't mention my pseudonym in any of them, though. What does this mean for me?

[liviapenn]

I think the only thing you have to worry about is if you have included some major hint to your identity. So, for instance, if Astolat put in her author's notes, "Part of my inspiration for this story was having a baby while modding Yuletide!" ... everyone would know she wrote that story. Or if I put "Thanks to my roommate Aris for beta!" then anyone who knows me and/or Aris would know it was mine.

Some authors always have the same betas, and mentioning them might be a hint as to the author's identity. So if that's the case, some people wait till afterward and then edit in their beta acknowledgements/thanks. But if you just randomly hooked up with a beta that isn't your BFF it probably wouldn't give the game away to thank them in your author's notes. So, like that.

[elynross]

It's awesome to have Author's Notes! What some people hold off on are things like naming betas that are closely associated with them, or any other information that's going to make it possibly to identify who they are (then they may go back and add that back in later). General Author's Notes aren't a problem, though.

[alley_skywalker]

I ran into this when posting a non-Yuletide multi-chapter on there. I had two chapters up and then posted another five or so all together. They weren't showing up even when I tried to repost them, What worked was going to the "see whole work" tab at the top of the displaying story and then it will show all chapters on one page and those that are blue are drafts and from that page you click "post chapter" for each chapter that remains a draft until it pots (goes white).