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  1. lacerta (rosereddawn) Thu 10 Jan 2013 07:30PM UTC

    Are there any updates wrt allowing fanworks other than fics to be hosted on the AO3 servers?

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    1. Sheogorath Fri 11 Jan 2013 12:51AM UTC

      An infographic stating the fact that Autistic children don't 'outgrow' Autism.

      Well, I've posted lyrics I wrote without having them pulled, so I guess it's okay.

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      1. LucyP Fri 11 Jan 2013 09:38AM UTC

        Hi!

        Yep, you're absolutely right that we're happy for people to post creative fanworks of all kinds, including fan-created song lyrics. I think lacerta was specifically interested in the question of when we'll actually be able to host works which aren't text-based on the AO3 servers: currently if you want to post multimedia such as fanart or vids you have to host it elsewhere and embed it in your AO3 post. Sadly, this is still further off than we would like: see my reply to lacerta above if you're curious.

        Lucy
        AD&T / Communications / Support

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        1. Sheogorath Sun 13 Jan 2013 05:52AM UTC

          An infographic stating the fact that Autistic children don't 'outgrow' Autism.

          Ah, my apologies. I came here from FFN where there is a rule against lyrics worded so broadly that original lyrics are sometimes reported. Also, in her original question, lacerta didn't specify non-text based works, hence my incorrect presumption.

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    3. LucyP Fri 11 Jan 2013 09:35AM UTC

      Hi there!

      We're still working on putting things in place to host other media, but we anticipate it will be at least a year before that happens. The work we've done over the last year has done some of the groundwork and also taught us a lot in terms of how to build more scalable code, what kinds of sever demands we can expect, etc. In our next wave of active development we plan to rebuild the code for works (this is one of the oldest parts of the code and so it's much more complicated than it needs to be); in the process we'll redesign some aspects of posting and browsing to make them more suited to multimedia works.

      Our new roadmap is currently awaiting approval from the Board; once we post that users will be able to see more of an overview of what needs to be done and what order we'll be doing it in.

      We know that it's taken much longer than originally expected to introduce artwork hosting. It's still high on our priority list, it's just that we didn't anticipate the pace of development and the challenges involved as accurately as we'd thought.

      Lucy
      AD&T / Communications / Support

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      1. lacerta (rosereddawn) Fri 11 Jan 2013 07:08PM UTC

        Thank you for the info! And yes, this is what I wanted to know :)

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