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Frequently Asked Questions about the AO3, Yuletide, and the Searching Thereof Grey Bard, with the help of #yuletide, collected some questions about the archive and searching and asked if answers could be posted. Most of these questions are the type that should be directed to AO3 support, and should eventually end up in the Archive FAQs, but may not be there yet. I agreed to collect some answers and post them here in the interests of happier Yuletiders. :) Thanks to those who helped provide the questions! Key: NYR = New Year's Resolution Challenge YT 2009 = Yuletide 2009YTM 2009 = Yuletide Madness 2009Yuletide is the primary collection you will see on the AO3 collections page. Within Yuletide you currently see YT 2009 and YTM 2009, and eventually you will see NYR 2010, and the sub-collections for all previous years of YT and NYR. You can also keep up with AO3-specific news on the AO3 news page, where the most recent update is about Yuletide's move to the AO3! Should I comment on fics I read right now, or is it too stressful for the servers? Comment away, if you haven't been! And please, if you haven't commented on the stories you received, please do so, even if it's just to say 'thank you for writing this for me". Consider how you feel/would feel, if you hadn't heard from your recipient. Even if you defaulted, we still ask you to at least comment on the story you received; you don't have to have an AO3 account to do so. ( Can I use the search box on the upper right of the AO3 to search within a collection/sub-collection? )( How do I find a listing for all the fandoms in YT 2009/YTM 2009? )( When I click on "works", it returns a max of 1000 stories. Is there any way to retrieve all the stories? )( If I use filters on the "works" page, are the stories that came up just from within those original 1000 results, or all the stories in the collection? )( I clicked on multiple fandoms/pairings/characters/tags on the filter list, and got '0' results. What happened? )( When I click on "works" in the Yuletide 2009 sub-collection I get a list of fandoms, but some of them show 0 stories when I click on them. Does that mean that that fandom was eligible for Yuletide but no one wrote it? )( Is there a way to include filters in a search in the search text box? For example, Boolean search and google fu, + - quotation marks etc. )( Does the fandom filter contain the same information that the fandoms page does, or might things listed on one have fallen through the cracks on the other? ) ( When I bookmark or rec something, does a notification get sent to the author? )( When you make a private bookmark, the bookmark itself is invisible, but will the tags you use be visible/indexed/attached to anything else? ) ( I keep trying to enter a comment on one of my gift-fics, and the form keeps closing on me! What do I do? ) ( Are all of the stories now correctly categorized by fandom and accessible through tags and filters, or is there still tag-wrangling to be done? ) ( Will there be an announcement when the archive is eventually fully tag-wrangled? )( Is there any way that I as the author or reader can make the jobs of the tag-wranglers looking at this fic easier? )( What is the "people" button? )( there are some stories in Yuletide 2009 (YT 2009) that are under 1000 words, and some in Yuletide Madness 2009 (YTM 2009) that are 1000 words or over. What )( Is there any way to hide the hit counters on my stories? )( I used to do Thing X on the old archive! How can I do that on AO3? )Tags: ao3, faq, yuletide 2009
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