#search functions

[disast3rtransp0rt]

I personally think ao3 should try an update with a permanent block of tags that the user themselves can choose.

Yeah, I agree that could be a cool feature. But that's still not censorship. It's a tool allowing for more specific personal choice/filtering.

And it's something you can kind of already do by using the "-butt stuff" format in AO3's search function to remove that tag from your results.

[bookishbrigitta]

AO3 has ruined me for all other search functions. The “exclude” feature is one of the best things I’ve ever come across. Every time I shop for clothes online, I get angry/sad because I can’t exclude in the search function. Like, sometimes I don’t know what I want, but I know what I don’t want. You can find some real gems that way!

[miniimaelstrom]

Fandom (and AO3) geekery, aka: I'm no longer an idiot

This isn’t, I’m sure, very revolutionary at all (I just missed the forest for the really big freaking AO3). But. Y’all.

It just occurred to me, in this, my eighteenth year as a part of fandom and my third year of attachment to Star Wars (the longest I’ve been continuously into a fandom at once - I tend to hyper-focus on single fandoms at a time like no one’s business), that if I go to AO3, and search by Kudos using only “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “>19 years” as search parameters, I get different fics than just the modern popular Obi-Wan stuff narrowed down on any given day by various tags I feel like reading.

I can go back 2 decades and still find amazing fic.

The biggest part of this, because of AO3’s age? So much of it doesn’t have the Kudos or hits one might expect given their age just because they were ‘ported from old archives and likely slipped many radars. There were blazingly good fic authors in the 60s, I know this already I have seen photocopies of old ‘zines, I should not be so delightedly surprised by good fic from when I was young, I should not.

I just. This is like being told there is dessert in the kitchen, so you go to the pantry and totally forget the ‘fridge is right there, and then you remember weeks later that some desserts are frozen, after all, and lo - there is a bounty unexpected.

I’m going to take this moment and bless the authors that came decades and generations before me. You were the foundations of the fandoms I stand in now, especially for the old fandoms still standing. Your stuff still survives, and... Y’all, this is finding lost treasure like Orcrist in that mouldering troll’s hoard in that middle-of-karking-nowhere cave (and yes, I’m aware I’m mixing fandoms and metaphors now, but augh! The more I type to share my excitement, the more delighted I get by this ‘find’ and it’s just amazing!!)!

[[eta - not to say fandom is a mouldering troll’s hoard; based on my AO3 history, it’s the exact opposite. I was referencing the excitement of finding gems in truly unexpected places. That metaphor got more out-of-hand than I expected, haha oops.]]

[imraan]

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