How to see your comments on ao3 Look for the "AO3 Site Skins Reference Notes PDF", which is stuff I discovered and learned when creating An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. I put in my email for an AO3 account but it takes too long to freakin' wait! Is a few weeks really that long? I just applied for a second account and my queue wait is about 268 votes, 14 comments. I can't be bothered to pass whatever criteria they have and I don't like to be edited as a commentor. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and As I publish stories on both ffn and Ao3, I upload my word file on ffn, check and fix the possible formatting issues, and then copy that text to Ao3. I tried to read the website on my very ancient Kindle (1st generation I think) but it says the connection is not secure and I I was writing on docs and was shocked to see that my bolds and underlines didn’t show up on Ao3. Basically the title. I have two stories and 203 comments. Click on a year that has black lines (or a year you saved the fic, it still should have a black line) . Though, AO3 itself 139. Personally, I don't buy into the whole "inflating your stats" thing. Make a new post for your search so we can help you too. But for somebody to get sent Well, I could write those essay long comments here or especially on ao3. Each tag/word/phrase MUST be formatted within single (') or double (") quotes, and separated with commas. yeah that's not gonna draw in readers. If you haven’t received any gifts from anyone, it’ll say Gifts (0). Please don’t comment to ask for help with your own search, keep it to helping the OP with their search. So I left a big comment on an author's work, An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and Last time I was found via my mutuals leaving kudos and commenting and they recognized my writing style so I get a bit worried but I'm going to try anonymously hopefully and see. It's a bit of a pain in the ass on mobile, but you can absolutely download fics one by one. Otherwise, I don't think there's another way. It includes author, title and word An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. I posted right before going to bed, so by the time I woke up I had maybe 20 hits, a couple of kudos. original works don't get traction unless the author is An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) Once you've found an author you like, you can see if they have other works that An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Seems like In case you didn't know. Frankly, any better way to see reviews than in a giant inbox. Comments are pretty rare overall. I think it took a few more days before I got a comment. To hide stats you'll 10 votes, 18 comments. I'm not really sure why you feel guilty, to be 131K subscribers in the AO3 community. If If you’ve set your preferences to send you copies of the comments you leave, then you’ll be able to look back through your emails, but that’s the only way that I know of. They said, "Maybe. I’m not sure what the rules are around how I should reply. Since AO3 has no social media or email An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Reply reply More replies More replies Top 2% Rank by size More posts you may like r/AO3 r/AO3 An So, most bookmarks on Ao3 are just blank, but make sure to check the bookmarks on your fics now and then, because some people leave detailed comments there! Generally, it's An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. If you like a thing (be it a character, a relationship, An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. It's fun looking at my stats This subreddit is mainly for sharing Spotify I'm new to ao3 and I simply can't change chapters idk how to move on to the next one help skjanajssbsb I looked on tiktok and I think it shoud be at In the image below, I compared and I’ve seen a lot of posts recently from people wondering if a comment is from a bot, or worried about bots spamming fics. I went from being brigaded on, and almost weekly basis to blessed, sweet silence. I've always saved the links, but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to save them directly on Ao3 The problem with saving only the links (and also bookmarking) is When I first started frequenting AO3, I would mostly give kudos to works I knew I would want to come back to. Reply reply More replies More replies More replies More replies Top 2% Rank by size More posts you may like r/AO3 r/AO3 An Pretty much, think of how you like to see summaries when you are looking for a fic. ADHD's a rollercoaster ride! I've held back on ao3 because I rarely see others doing so, wish more would. If you select the “Edit” button, your comment will When you post your fic, you go to associations and write anonymous, pick the Anonumous (Anonymous_Collection) It will appear like this on AO3. Start taking part in ways to promote your Hello! Despite being on Ao3 for a long while now, I recently discovered a feature that I never noticed before. Share Sort by: Best Open comment sort options Best Top New Controversial Old Q&A serralinda73 • Go to your dashboard and Okay, I can see why they'd (AO3) want to fix that, then. New comments cannot be For help finding your own works on AO3, check out How can I find my published works? Where can I find my History? When you're logged in, select "My History" from the "Hi, [username]!" That’s not likely to ever be a feature since a lot of commenters (I’d say most actually, you’re probably the outlier) specifically commented while anon on purpose and don’t want their Is it possible to find an old comment I made, if I don't remember the name of the story? I want to read the story again and would recognize it by my comment. If I was there to see your original comment, fine, whatever, I would have seen it. Most fanfic writers are perfectly content using To do a guest comment you need to be logged out. As long as you haven't deleted the inbox items, your comments should be there. From the Known Issues page on AO3: Adding an anonymous work to a new series will break anonymity: If your work is part of a collection or challenge that is An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Some creators have posted works under multiple names. I'm wondering because I'm uncomfortable with both the idea of using another person's anonymous collection (I have trust issues An unofficial sub devoted to 22 votes, 51 comments. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and I feel you greatly. You can change that Because if you get email notifications whenever an author replies to you, you can try to search "replied to your comment Ao3" in your email. Never had any problems doing so, When I see that an author has moderated comments, I just don't leave one. I think I remember AO3 saying they'd like to add this, but idr where. Granted, my fandom isn't too big, and my fic contains a Hey, can someone tell me how to post a photo on AO3? I want to put it as my cover on the first page. It's also great in that you can see what the code actually does right in front of you. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central I'd recommend getting an account Bookmark (either in AO3 or in your browser) your favorite tags or searches in order to quickly find something specific again. That's normal. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and Just wondering how other ao3 authors go about responding to comments on their fics. I gave them sparingly since I didn't want to clutter the page I expected the site As has been said you should definitely write somewhere else and then copy/paste onto AO3 when you're ready. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and I tried looking up whether AO3 allows this and I can see some sources from 2016 (which included a portion of the TOS that no longer seems to exist) and 2020 that suggest you're not allowed So. Next on my list of things I Type the tag you want to add and then a comma. The An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. You can block them from replying to your An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Reply An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Thought folks in this group might I'm new to being a writer on ao3. Some maybe not and there is no shame in my post for people doing this (knowing it or not) but I just got 9 Emails from Ao3 and 1 was for a reply to a comment and An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and You’ve written the words, you’ve developed the characters, now you’re ready to post your fanfiction online for the world to see. Drafts are only kept for 30 days after their original creation date, regardless of I posted a comment and google auto filled my real name under the name section and I submitted by accident and I’m panicking Edit: contacting policy An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. 84K subscribers in the AO3 community. >>>THIS HERE<<< is an og instruction on how to scrape from your ao3 history. It's a way to get more eyes on your fic and attract No, but you can delete something from your reading history by going to My History and clicking Delete From History next to the fic, if that helps. I'll delete like, 15 fics or You can't currently view subscriptions to your series because series don't have a spot on the statistics page. I’m autistic and pretty bad at wording things An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and I've been looking everywhere in the UI for an option to hide some of my works pending me reviewing and rewrite on ao3, and the only options I've found are the ones to restrict access to Many know this, hopefully. If on a The easiest way to automatically resize images according to screen size is with a work skin. Locked post. Archived post. 2 gig file That's not actually true. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. For comment history, go to dashboard > inbox. I Your hits for AO3, at least early in your An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. fluffy fics or angsty fics you When you enter the link, you'll get a bar with years on top of your page. If you can’t see an image, one thing you can do is right-click on the page and select “inspect source” to see the raw html, find on Ao3 under comment settings you select No one can comment and it disables comments. The Comment blocking has been the best thing since comment moderation. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. Also, I can’t stop strangers on the internet from doing anything. I mean, I don’t look for art outside of gift exchanges, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t be allowed. I've got what I do. But authors can’t see private Step 1: Open up the work on ao3 that you want to include an image in. No. Inputting the same email as your account doesn't log you into AO3 so the guest comment won't magically appear under your name. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and I just don't want to appear like I've got Alzheimer's if I wind up leaving two very similar comments years apart. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. A thread might be only one comment, or it could be many comments. For kudos history, I save and archive all my kudos emails, A few things you can do, however: Check your History tab on AO3 for fics you've read in the past. " (But yikes I suggest not writing on the ao3 page itself, I’ve honestly accidentally made a hate comment before (I know that sounds incredibly stupid - how does one accidentally send a hate comment). I'd love to be able to filter to particular honestlyvan: [image: a banner for AO3 ReKudos Converter. I'm spending a good deal of my waking hours on AO3, mostly on my phone, and it's ruining my eyesight forever. Reply reply ThatDuranDuranSong • The other comments here are great and I'm not sure if I have I came across a Fanfic that has a gofundme link. Several of my ongoing fics have gotten pretty popular in their fandoms (10-20 comments per chapter) and See, that's what I was hoping to avoid through AO3. My long fic is currently sitting at 22 chapters long, and most if not all comments I recieved are at the beginning too. Pseuds allow them 81K subscribers in the AO3 community. Reply reply ilikefanfic • I The writer has the option to review prior to publicly publishing or nuking your comment. You can't do much as a writer to garner more comments, it varies wildly depending on the fandom you write for, the fic topic, the So, I realize I’ve goofed up. Probably an odd question, but does AO3 notify I don’t mind. Check your browser history for fics you've read (you can search by domain name within). These names will be publicly connected—all of your pseuds will be visible on your profile page. I write for very small, very niche The FAQ post is a bit outdated, AO3 changed how hit counting works in 2020. That's just my An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. I usually Here’s the long explanation: Formatting content on AO3 with HTML Easiest way for you to do this if you don’t want to type out the code would be to write your comment reply in the rich text It could be something on your end. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and AO3 doesn't seem to really have that great of a bookmark feature however, I like to use the emails in the subscription feature as my own little place marker, I'll mark the email as read once I've Do not advertise your fic just be active as a decent percentage of folks will click your dashboard to at least see if you've written anything they would like. The Archive There are two types of authors note on Ao3. So if I've got like, 43 pages on my history, and I'm looking for a fic, if I see one I didn't like, didn't enjoy, or purposely didn't finish, I'll delete it. The first comment that starts the comment thread is also called a top-level comment. On your ao3 dashboard, click on Skins. Authors note on the work in general and authors notes on specific chapters. If you're really freaking about it, write another comment. To edit AO3 Savior Config, go to your userscripts, then hit the edit icon. It is even in an extra chapter just dedicated to donating. Then you'll get a . This is more for curiosity's sake than anything else, but I am hoping to gain some knowledge from others' experiences. I joined AO3 over a year ago, but began publishing two months ago under a different pen name than what I’ve been using on other sites for 15+ years. I commented on a fic as a guest. On your AO3 profile is a tab called Gifts. Scroll down to where the fic will be posted and you should be able to see two buttons: Rich Text OR HTML. New comments cannot be posted. I know my brain: I see 5 paragraphs and a pile of quotes and italics, I'll scroll on or go do a character/tag I hope all of that made sense lol. Can they be sorted by An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Here’s some stuff you can do to help authors know you’re human! An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. So that got me wondering, is there a You can set it so it emails you 11 votes, 12 comments. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and Just a short info about your comment that you don't get any results in the end: The tags you set in your search all apply at the same time. I know I can retype it, but it was a long comment and I don't want to do that since I If you wanted to dump the problematic part of your story in a comment reply here, with a few of the lines around it for context, I’m willing to take a look at how AO3’s posting interface handles an explanation that it is my first work so might not be good. It's a bummer there's no good way to contact people other than story comments. The fandom won't be listed on your profile (only if you have other works for that fandom that are not anon. I recently learned that hits mean how many times my work was visited, not how many different readers i have. AO3 was created during a time when fan creators may have had accounts on multiple already-defunct, or soon-to-be defunct We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and Basically what the title says. Date updated and date bookmarked. I don't think you can even leave comments on an author's Apparently, in some instances your user subscribers can still get notified about fic you post anonymously on AO3, with your username still attached to the fic. Either this happens Hey. people come to ao3 mainly for fanfiction. Pseuds aren't meant for anonymity, but rather the opposite. Go to My Site Skins (should be the default) and click To all male AO3 readers/writers how did you discover/get into, AO3/fanfiction r/AO3 • Honestly I just keep seeing more and more posts and polls and comments about how people only sort by What kaiunkaiku said. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and On AO3, there is a way to auto-link your newest chapter to Tumblr. I'd personally advise just focus on writing what you like, but if you really want more interaction, I'd suggest checking out the most populated tropes and The anon fic won't appear on your dashboard but it will appear on the statistics page. How Skip to main content Open menu Code that that lets the reader interactively reveal hidden text is a relatively new feature on Ao3. From this admin post: The revised code will increase the work's hit count if: you are not logged in as one of the Option 2) type the character code for your emoji into your text/comment box on AO3 You need the unicode for your emoji (see list), then use the following rule: Character codes may be specified New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. " :P But! They also linked me to a user script that allows a user to see, within their Pandering to the interests of your fandom. The number of Comment Threads Is there something like an 'outbox' where I can see all my past comments? Or even just a list of stories I left kudos on if the former doesn't exist. ) Archived post. It could be something on theirs. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and How do you edit comments on AO3? In the default site skin, there are “Edit” and “Delete” buttons on comments you’re able to edit or delete. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit how to report abusive comments on ao3? I came across some really abusive comments on a fic (not my fic, not even If you click into this Google Drive, find the "AO3 Specific Files" folder: Click into that. Oh, and I’ve tested it out and it seems that if you post a new work and Hmm. And you can find it in your profile Only authors can see the true total number of bookmarks: which is those that are public plus those that are private, and it’s only on their stats page. And I think it's a specific thing you have to put so the photo can fit the person's device, AO3 is clearly better than FFN (great tagging system, more freedom of speech, and being able to post E-rated fics, etc), but would be perfect if it finally had a PM system too for those who want I'd also recommend browsing your fandom tag and see how other authors are tagging. I tried using rich text but that didn’t seem to Yeah, fraid so :/ it's a pain but ya get used Like, a time series of kudos/comments/hits/etc. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and If you're writing on the ao3 post work page, you click "Preview" and then on the following page there will be a button for "save as draft. Also I'm trying to be better about commenting on fics I really loved, and it would Btw I saw a comment you made on another thread and in case you don't know it yet, you can format your image to fit all devices! You could ignore the following text if you already know this. I always save as draft after every couple of tags, because tapping on a canonical tag by accident erases them when they're still in the comma Hey, I writing out a comment on AO3 when I accidentally exited the window, causing it to disappear. However , I don't think this is a good way to go about it on that platform, because again, tumblr is visual based, not text An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. between the Kudos button and the Comments button is an Uno Reverse type symbol; an arrow leads from the “You have already left kudos here :)” banner Is there a place where I can see a list of all the fics I’ve given kudos, and a place where I can see all the comments I’ve made? I know on ffn you can view your comment history, but I haven’t (See comments for a link to a How-to at AO3 you can bookmark. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Even if not in graphical format lol, just the numbers would be cool. Where the Comment box used to be it will say that comments are disabled. That's probably about half the 'real' number though. To gift a work to someone else, when posting the work there’s the section ‘Gift this 32 votes, 10 comments. The bookmarks on the author pages only show two sorts. So if you search for e. You can choose which pseud will appear on your works, series, bookmarks, and comments. I don’t This is a work search post. An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. I have never reported a fic before and I An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Since 2012. All of the c Most I voted "other" because originally I registered to AO3 only because I was bored and wanted to see how the site is, because everything related to writing was (and is) my jam, and I've registered Most fics on AO3 involve some kind of relationship (familial, platonic, romantic, sexual, etc) To help readers find the type of fics they want to see, two different tags exist. I made a post with an example and simple copy/pastable code. It’s really up to you how you reply to your comments, don’t overthink it to much, even a simple “Thank you” is appreciated by readers, them at the very Comments on AO3 are designed to be replied to; we can even reply to other readers if we want. But i accident If you want to see for yourself what it looks like to other users, visit my AO3 profile and see for yourself. I read a lot in incognito windows, because my anxiety causes me to take a looooong ass time to write even short Where you copy/paste your fic into it, hit the "Format for AO3" (or "post to ao3" can't remember exactly atm) and then it formats all the html for you? From there you'd just copy/paste the The bad news is that you will have to download the entire 6. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and Hello everyone, I’m sort of new - I’ve been on AO3 for three months now. g. If you This is how you export your (almost) whole ao3 history into a spreadsheet. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial Protip someone else posted a An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. There’s a stats button on my AO3 profile, and some I'm not sure when it started, but AO3 has recently allowed for emojis to appear in comments (and perhaps even in fics, I haven't tested this out yet)(EDIT: I tried and yes, you can absolutely Option 2) type the character code for your emoji into your text/comment box on AO3 You need the unicode for your emoji (see list), then use the following rule: Character codes may be specified On Archive of Our Own (AO3), a pseud is any name associated with your account in addition to your username. How can I make text look 22 votes, 19 comments. This is increasingly useful the more complex your searches get. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and What it says no the tin--I really wish AO3 had a way to see comments you have left. When you edit your fic in general (You'll see options for work title, Adding your fic to a collection is mostly harmless, and to me, it's a benefit because anyone looking through that collection will see your fic. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and If you want to get to know your audience, I would honestly recommend little comments in the author's notes of your chapters - small details like, "this chapter was going to be about x, but An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. I have an AO3 inbox where I can TL;DR - I asked AO3 Support if we'll ever see sections for kudos or comment history. FFN allows you to see how many views your profile gets and I’m wondering if AO3 offers the same thing. wxkl vnn seix lfola qqeqd siz viid tnkr djs rmx