Archive of Our Own (AO3) is formally exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works — the nonprofit behind the fanfiction website — announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3’s launch in 2009.
“Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot,” the announcement says. “We’ve introduced many features over the years through the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, as well as the contractors we’ve been able to hire thanks to generous donations from our users.”
The put up highlights some of the options that AO3 has had since its launch, together with a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privateness settings that permit creators to restrict entry to their work, and extra. Just as a result of AO3 is exiting beta, doesn’t imply the updates will cease flowing:
As the AO3 software program has been secure for a very long time, the change is largely beauty and doesn’t point out that all the pieces is finalized or completely working. Exiting beta doesn’t imply we’ll cease persevering with to enhance AO3—our volunteer coders and neighborhood contributors will nonetheless be working so as to add to and enhance AO3 every single day.
One of probably the most vital modifications to the location is the absence of the tiny “beta” label contained in the AO3 brand displayed on the high of the platform. (AO3 briefly modified the beta to “omega” for April Fools’ Day this 12 months).
You can hold tabs on the updates coming to AO3 by viewing its initiatives on Jira
