Comment on Call for Feedback on Category Change Proposal

  1. Elf (Elf_Herself) Wed 18 Sep 2013 06:00PM UTC

    Elf in anime style.

    I would also love an option for "one scrollable list of ALL THE FANDOMS," possibly with the umbrella ("& Related fandoms") categories removed. I've often been frustrated trying to move between main categories.

    I'd also like a way to sort fandom lists by numbers of fics, but that's got nothing directly to do with categorizing them.

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    1. Carene Waterman (Guest) Thu 19 Sep 2013 02:02AM UTC

      Speaking of sorting by number of works...

      I just posted my latest project

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      1. Carene Waterman (Guest) Thu 19 Sep 2013 02:12AM UTC

        which I explained, but all that was stripped out of the comment. Awesome.

        I made a bookmarklet to do exactly what you want.

        I just can't link to it because I don't have an AO3 account.

        Um, if you email me at carene_waterman at zoho dot com, I can give you the link.

        I'll put up a post at that ao3some on Dreamwidth tomorrow.

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    3. LadyOscar (Category_Change_Workgroup) Thu 19 Sep 2013 04:46PM UTC

      Hi Elf,

      Because of the huge number of fandoms on the Archive (12,990 at present) it is unfortunately simply not possible for us to have a single A-Z fandom listing. While currently the fandom listings are slated to be sorted alphabetically as on the present media pages, we will keep your suggestion for other sort orders in mind.

      Best,
      Lady Oscar
      AO3 Category Change Workgroup

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      1. Elf (Elf_Herself) Thu 19 Sep 2013 04:57PM UTC

        Elf in anime style.

        Maybe we could have a downloadable/static list? Updated daily, so producing it doesn't drain the servers too much? (Even updated weekly would be better than not having it.)

        I would love to have a way to get a list of all the fandoms--preferably, both with and without the umbrella-fandom listings, but "without" would be first preference--even if it were a basic text list. Right now, if I want to build one, I have to open each category of fandom, copy/paste into a list, and then try to find all the duplicates and remove them.

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        1. LadyOscar (Category_Change_Workgroup) Thu 19 Sep 2013 09:23PM UTC

          Hi Elf,

          I will pass your suggestion along to the coding and design team!

          Best,
          Lady Oscar
          AO3 Category Change Workgroup

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