#ao3 history

[killrisma]

My AO3 history is between me, my phone, and Satan. Satan not God cause I’m not makin it upstairs

[louisapennyfeather2021]

Happy(?) one year anniversary of the Great Ao3 Crash of 2023

[rainbowpopeworld]

How to download your complete AO3 history

In case you're looking for a way to download your complete A03 history (not the text of the fics themselves, just the info that is listed on your history page), here is the method I used:

Make sure you’re using Firefox as your browser (because of the next step, but also because it’s better than Chrome).

(From Reddit:) "Use this add on to load all the history pages on the same page, hold the pagedown button down for a few minutes or weigh it down with an object. It takes a few minutes or more to load them in, then you can Ctrl+f for keywords. I would recommend to not do 1000 pages at a time, not all computers can handle that I wager." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pagezipper/

Download the beta version of this. You can use the stable version, but it brings a lot less information from each fic. https://random.fangirling.net/scripts/ao3_works_stats

Now you can sort, search, etc. your spreadsheet however you’d like 😊

[intruding-stranger-universe]

Would you jump of a cliff or show your ao3 history to your mom

[socialjusticefail]

Since there is is always a time for people to not know the history of AO3, this article will always be relevant.

[sylono]

Not to complain about ao3, because it's God tier and I love it,,, but how I wish you could use filters on your history. Like,,, I was so young and naive for like,, years when I first used it,,, and I didn't bookmark stuff, or would only do it once in a blue moon back then,,,,, and there's so many fics I remember reading and would love to find again, but finding them from scratch out of every single fic out there can be such a struggle(not to mention sometimes they've been deleted, so there may not even be anything to find, but at least if you could filter your reading history, you would be sure that if it didn't show up it was deleted and not just that you're searching for it wrongㅠ.ㅠ) but yeah,,,, I absolutely adore ao3,, I just,,, the longing I have for a filter feature in the reading history tab is so strong,, the one thing in my many years of using it that I've wished could be added to such an already perfect hellsite,, yknow?

[xenosa-syndrome]

I saw someone say there should be an ao3 wrapped...

If my ao3 history gets leaked I'm burning the whole world down

I will cause the mass extinction of the human race then kms at the end from the sheer power of embarrassment

I'm sorry but I'm sacrificing anything and everything for my ao3 history to not get leaked

They can't even waterboard this information from me

[strikethematch18]

y'all. this is me begging for ao3 to implement the filter system to history.

i'm trying to comb through like 140 pages of fics trying to find what I think is a oneshot. i can guess approximately where it dateish wise. but its a yuri on ice fic, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MY HERO ACADEMIA FICS ARE IN THERE TOO?! And there's even a chance it's a deleted fic so I may never find it. i would take even just filtering by fandom. PLEASE GIVE ME FILTERS

[theficlistpodcast]

Like....girl, lol

[bingewatche]

Just looked at my ao3 history....... I've read 5,704 fics in the 1-2 years I've had my account....... I need help

[ara270904]

I think it's funny that without context if I saw some fanfic in my history that said "Chase..." and then something, it would be confusing without a context because there's a Chase in Paw Patrol and there's a Chase in Ever After High and I'm un both fandoms and read fics from both fandoms.

It's just that I was watching my history and it said something in the summary with uhm "Chase wakes up with his hand hurting" or something like that and I was "Wait? What Chase?" And then I saw that it was Chase Redford, I like him and I already remembered what fanfic it was

Yeah

[myrsinemezzo]

I made my first zine yesterday in anticipation of an event for students. I thought displaying one on the history of ao3 may make some of them smile and feel more comfortable since this is obviously a low art threshold zine… (shoutouts to @bad-surprise, @hazelmaines, and @thecoziestbean)

Here’s a short video with how to make an easy one page zine. Warning: you can lose a good hour or more to making one of these because it’s so much fun to create :)

[sparrow-the-tired-lesbian]

my poor friend Pyro has been subjected to my AO3 history.

[pandaimitator]

Oh man this was such an interesting listen! I vaguely remember when this went down, but I was like 16 at the time, had just gotten out of my first bout of fanfiction, and was blissfully reading vampire novels thinking "guess it's up to her if she doesn't want people writing about her characters". Boy was I ignorant (we all were at 16).

It took another 15 years before I dipped my toes in fanfiction again, (both of those times because my at 16 girlfriend, and at 31 ex-girlfriend, was a majorly popular fanfic writer) and then another 8 years before I crash landed head first into fandom again.

Happy to be here. Happy for all of those who went before and took up the fight, and really happy AO3 exists in the form it does today. Gonna keep listening to this podcast because boyo, is fandom history fascinating!

Any other millenials remember this going down?

[arotemisace]

YOU WOULDNT LAST AN HOUR IN THE ASYLUM WHERE THEY RAISED ME

[louisapennyfeather2021]

Documenting this for historical accuracy:

4/27/2023, 9:16 p.m. EST