I wish each individual chapter of a fic on AO3 had the date when it was posted, rather than just when the fic was first posted and when the last update was.
That way you can see at a glance how often a WIP is updated, whether it’s fairly regularly or with huge long gaps between chapters; or if the first 20 chapters were posted in quick succession but the most recent couple were posted at long intervals, indicating that the writer is losing interest and may not finish, etc.
Someone just liked this 10 year old post and tagged it “wishlist” and I feel obliged to add that immediately after posting this, in 2014, I was informed that this DOES exist. So for those of you who don’t know:
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There ya go @oa-trance!
why did I not already know this
[image 1: the buttons at the top of a chaptered work on AO3; the Chapter Index button is circled. image 2: clicking the Chapter Index button displays a drop-down with all the chapters, and the Full-page Index button, which is circled. image 3: the chapter index, which lists the chapter numbers, titles, and update dates.]




















