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tanaquiljallETA: The queue to request an invite is open.
The Archive of Our Own goes into Open Beta TOMORROW!
For those of you who don't know, AO3 is a (panfandom) fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks (umm, that would be fanfic to most of us.) It's being developed and run by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which I blithered about last month. AO3 is basically aiming to be fanfiction.net without the annoyances and restrictions, and FanLib without the outsiders trying to profit off fanworks.
As this is Open Beta, they're still developing, so some things don't work quite as they should, and there's a tendency for them to add a bunch of new stuff in one area and accidentally break things that were working perfectly well. *g* However, it's one of the easiest sites I've come across to post at, and it absolutely rocks if you're writing a shared 'verse with other writers: you can create a shared series that lets you and your writing partners all contribute stories to the series and order them correctly. (To see this in action, take a look at the Awesome!Jakeverse series that![[info - personal]](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scribblesinink and I are working on, which at time of writing has 58 stories and more than 140K words.)
I've been archiving stories there in two fandoms, as well as at LJ and in a couple of private archives, for a while now, and intend to archive stories from other fandoms once I have the time to add them. (When muses aren't being so OMG!Chatty.)
AO3 is using an invite code system to manage growth of the archive during Closed Beta to make sure the servers don't get overloaded as all the new members upload their entire back catalogs *g* - but they've recognized that getting involved early on shouldn't depend on whether you know the right cliques in fandom.
Authors with accounts in Closed Beta (which you got by submitting feedback to them) are being given an invite code (apparently just one for now -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
allie_meril, I know I promised you an invite, so please let me know if you still need it). I suspect we'll be given more at some point, so if you'd like one, let me know in comments and I'll see what I can do.
However, anyone can sign up to the invite queue, which opens tomorrow Saturday 14th at 10am UTC. You can find out more about the invite queue and how it will be managed at the OTW Blog, which will have updates about where to sign up and how the archive is progressing.
(BTW, like everyone else at Dreamwidth, I also still have a couple of Dreamwidth invites if anyone wants them.)
This entry was originally posted at http://tanaqui.dreamwidth.org/163460.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
The Archive of Our Own goes into Open Beta TOMORROW!
For those of you who don't know, AO3 is a (panfandom) fan-created, fan-run, non-profit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks (umm, that would be fanfic to most of us.) It's being developed and run by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which I blithered about last month. AO3 is basically aiming to be fanfiction.net without the annoyances and restrictions, and FanLib without the outsiders trying to profit off fanworks.
As this is Open Beta, they're still developing, so some things don't work quite as they should, and there's a tendency for them to add a bunch of new stuff in one area and accidentally break things that were working perfectly well. *g* However, it's one of the easiest sites I've come across to post at, and it absolutely rocks if you're writing a shared 'verse with other writers: you can create a shared series that lets you and your writing partners all contribute stories to the series and order them correctly. (To see this in action, take a look at the Awesome!Jakeverse series that
scribblesinink and I are working on, which at time of writing has 58 stories and more than 140K words.)I've been archiving stories there in two fandoms, as well as at LJ and in a couple of private archives, for a while now, and intend to archive stories from other fandoms once I have the time to add them. (When muses aren't being so OMG!Chatty.)
AO3 is using an invite code system to manage growth of the archive during Closed Beta to make sure the servers don't get overloaded as all the new members upload their entire back catalogs *g* - but they've recognized that getting involved early on shouldn't depend on whether you know the right cliques in fandom.
Authors with accounts in Closed Beta (which you got by submitting feedback to them) are being given an invite code (apparently just one for now -
allie_meril, I know I promised you an invite, so please let me know if you still need it). I suspect we'll be given more at some point, so if you'd like one, let me know in comments and I'll see what I can do.However, anyone can sign up to the invite queue, which opens tomorrow Saturday 14th at 10am UTC. You can find out more about the invite queue and how it will be managed at the OTW Blog, which will have updates about where to sign up and how the archive is progressing.
(BTW, like everyone else at Dreamwidth, I also still have a couple of Dreamwidth invites if anyone wants them.)
This entry was originally posted at http://tanaqui.dreamwidth.org/163460.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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Date: 2009-11-13 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 02:50 pm (UTC)(Also, heee, I just saw you pointed at this post over at DW - thanks. *g*)
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Date: 2009-11-13 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 04:56 pm (UTC)And I just got an email telling me I have my invite. *squees and bounces some more*
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Date: 2009-11-13 08:06 pm (UTC)