#and if they are there's no guarantee they'll be the version the creators intended for you to watch

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

the only way to watch tv shows the way they were meant to be watched is through DVDs isn't it? I keep hearing of tv shows that netflix has made major editing/aspect ratio/music changes, once again cementing netflix as my archnemesis. yes I'm pedantic, it's my only talent

[shinelikethunder]

maybe they'll be able to do it once collections are on Elasticsearch!!!

but heh, IMO kinkmemes were doomed from the start, because anonymity on AO3 is a polite fig leaf that exists at the whim of 1. the collection mod(s), and 2. whatever weird de-anoning bugs have crawled out of the complexities of the work/series/collection code. trying to actually use the Anonymous feature just kinda makes it painfully obvious that the intended use case is NOT giving creators a reliable way to mask their own authorship of a work. what's slightly less obvious is figuring out what IS the intended use case, until you realize the entire thing is tailored quite specifically for mods of challenges/exchanges that have a delayed identity reveal.

any "durable anonymity for creators" affordances are just kind of bolted haphazardly onto that. collections that exist Specifically To Grant Anon Status are almost a creative misuse of intended functionality, akin to chatty tumblr tags or... well... running a whole-ass anonymous prompt/response challenge in the comment section of a LiveJournal post.

except shittier and not fit for purpose, because so many of the reasons to WANT anonymity involve mod drama. like, kinkmemes As A Recognized Variant of prompt/response were basically spawned by the ability to offer a guarantee of mod-proof anonymity in LJ comment sections. AO3's version was never gonna work for that.

honestly, despite my (over)investment in both the site and the subculture it lives in, all my spiciest AO3 takes are really boring

the Work Bookmarks page should group bookmarks with user-added metadata separately, so you can find them without paging through all the ones that are just username + date

very glad blocking and/or muting are in the works; very much hope they will be separate features

collections would be way more useful if their discoverability wasn't absolute garbage, and i want to buy whoever's moving them onto Elasticsearch a drink and a pony

they'd be able to roll out a lot more long-demanded features if their shiny, all-volunteer, open-source codebase made it just sliiiightly easier to contribute minor bugfixes and grunt work without being Chosen for Full Induction Into The Mysteries of OTW Volunteering

whoever moved the "Alternate Universe - College/University" tag OUT from under the main "Alternate Universe" tag.... c'mere, man, I just wanna talk. was it a site performance issue? because if it was a site performance issue, the "Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence" tag is right there and 3 times its size and would actually benefit from being its own thing.