There are a lot of people confused about what to tag their stuff on AO3. I mean, like, people who use AO3 regularly sometimes talk about not knowing how to tag their fic. And this is Yuletide; there are people who only post to AO3 for ficathons such as Yuletide, and they probably are even less sure what to do. There aren't many rules, and even the ( Read more... )

Any news on the timeline for importing the 2003-2008 Yuletide fics to AO3? The latest post I can find about it in this community is from a year ago. I haven't moved mine manually because it sounds like there's not going to be an easy way to merge duplicate stories when the import does happen, but if it's going to be much longer I'd just like to ( Read more... )

Disclaimers: I am not a mod. I am not AO3 staff. I am not Eleanor of Aquitaine.

I thought this was worth passing along. From the latest announcement from AO3 news:

The SSA will be imported next week, on Sunday 3rd March! Our second test case will be the Yuletide archive, one of the newest and most complex iterations of the Automated Archive code.
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Is there a way to get email notifications about comment replies on AO3? See, on one of the Yuletide fics I commented on I also asked a question. Today, I happened to see that the writer had replied to me. Since I never got any sort of a notification, I would've completely missed it if I hadn't been re-reading the fic. Naturally, now I'm wondering ( Read more... )

This actually goes beyond my current yuletide fic, because this tag has puzzled me for a while.

A fic in which a canon major character features prominently and where they die, should clearly be tagged, because they're a major character in both the canon and the fic. But what happens when major characters in canon are minor ones in a fic, or vice- ( Read more... )

Right, have checked the FAQ and it's not 100% clear, so I'll ask here ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can answer this. I haven't written a treat for anyone since Yuletide moved over to AO3, but this year, there are a few I'd love to write. And I was wondering how to post them so that I could be anonymous. I poked around on AO3 and couldn't find anything ( Read more... )

(x-posted from yuletide_admin)

You now CAN post treats to the yuletide2010 collection (previously, you could only fulfill your actual assignment)!

You now CANNOT see the fandom of a user's unrevealed story listed on their homepage ( Read more... )

Crossposted to yuletide and yuletide_adminWe know that some fandom/character tags which were nominated did not make it onto our final list due to time pressures and technical issues, and therefore are not available for you to request/offer during signup. We're very sorry about this! The awesome team of wranglers worked like crazy to get as many input and wrangled as ( Read more... )