The default deadline has been changed to Friday, December 17th! If you don't think you can make the upload deadline on Monday the 20th, defaulting will guarantee that your recipient has a story, and you aren't penalized for defaulting late or without notice ( Read more... )

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... )

I know the new form is a big change, and to make life easier on the AO3 Support team, I'm tossing up this post where you can come with any issues you are having ( Read more... )

Tech IssuesA number of people are having trouble signing up since the archive is being hammered and the form is very large, which is causing slowdowns and occasional sadface Archive logo 502 errors, as well as browser crashes ( Read more... )

OMG, we have finally gotten through the tag loading. I am now finishing up the setup, but for any of you waiting, I have put together a couple of screencasts to walk you through the form and also explain in some more detail what is going on with the changes this year and the spiffy new matching options. :D

ETA: thanks to awesome transcribing work ( Read more... )

Short sweet update:

Yay, new code is deployed! \o/

Signups will open tomorrow barring giant fiery explosions of doom. \o/

Final fandoms/character list post-corrections posted. \o/

If you are tired of refreshing Is It Yuletide Yet?, I have posted long and hopefully interesting technical details about nominations process design for next year ( Read more... )

Hey all -- before we can open signups, we need to deploy the next round of code to the AO3 (which includes new challenge-signup features for Yuletide and also some hefty performance improvements, we hope *g ( Read more... )