Meida Round Up: Girls and Demons

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 11:21
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It's that time again! More thoughts on media:

The Truth Season 3 case 8 (I think, the numbering is confusing now)— this case featured Chinese style horror, and it was very creepy but in a fun way. I also enjoyed the earthly 20th inspired costumes

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming— I’m writing about this even though I didn’t finish it because I think some of you might enjoy this. The first bit was really fun! The main character is a wildlife biology PhD student, who when she finds herself on an alien planet is upset that it's full of dinosaurs all from different time periods from each other! (Very relatable really) The book has a very fun voice. Unfortunately it ends up becoming too much sex for me.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh— A Korean inspired fantasy YA novel about a girl who chooses to sacrifice herself in place of the designated Sea God’s Bride and enters a spirit world full of mythical beings and complex politics. (I read this even though the mom is dead, and really there’s no narrative reason for it) This was lovely and very atmospheric, though the ending left me a little dissatisfied. (Content Note: Infant death)

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen— Second book in the Little Thieves trilogy. Very fun and twisty in a similar way to the 1st book.

Kpop Demon Hunters — It's an animated movie about a kpop girl band that are magical girl-sque demon hunters, there's lot of musical numbers.A Koren friend of mine described it as “an American movie set in Korea” and I think that’s spot on. She specifically complained about how the worldbuiling/theology feels too christian. It doesn't fully work through the consequences of all the violence but the flight scenes are very swooshy and fun, and I liked the themes a lot. I also really liked the female friendship aspect.

July 4th weekend

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 12:39
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Sorry I'm not more interesting, but to see about motivating myself to not just be a lump all weekend, here's some things I might want to get done

listy list )

ten. good. things.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 23:22
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(Yeah I'm struggling with the ukpol news at the moment, and feeling especially bleak about this FOI response in particular. Maybe I will manage to pull together a post of useful "please write to your MP about the UC/PIP bill" tomorrow, given I've got them all open in tabs to do so anyway.)

Read more... )

Read-in-Progress Wednesday

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 00:38
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This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

For spoilers:

<details><summary>insert summary</summary>Your spoilers goes here</details>

<b>Highlight for spoilers!*</b><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">Your spoilers goes here.</span>*

Wishlist Wednesday

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 14:39
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Wishlist Wednesdays are intended as a catch-all for anything you'd like to ask for in a casual, low-stress setting. No need to create a separate entry to the comm (although you are always welcome to do that, too), just leave a comment with your request right here under this entry.

It can be anything. Are you looking for icons of a specific drama or actor? Do you need a beta for your fic? Do you want to know where to buy merchandise of something? You can ask for recs of any kind (fanfic, drama, novel, music, whatever), or even leave specific fic prompts that others might be able to fill. Or whatever else that you can think of. Right now we're still kinda experimenting with this format, after all.

Feel free to discuss wishes/requests in the comments. And if you want to fill a request, feel free to do so right in the comments, too, or make a separate entry to the comm.

And please also check out the previous entries!

Multiple wishes/requests are definitely all right, just post a new top level comment for each. It would make it easier for people who might be interested in helping you out. The only thing I'd suggest for now is that you hide possible spoilers in the usual ways:

or

Five Things Rhine Said

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 16:02
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5 Things an OTW volunteer said

Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today's post is with Rhine, who volunteers as a volunteer manager in the Translation Committee.

How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does?

As a Translation volunteer manager I mostly deal with admin work that surrounds the work our translators do – be it talking to other committees about things that are to be translated, preparing English texts for translation, making sure our version of the text is up to date, or getting texts published once they are translated – along with more general personnel stuff like recruiting new translators, keeping a clear record of who is supposed to be working on what and who is on break, checking in with translators and how they feel about their work, that kind of thing. Having been in this role for some time now, I also help with mentoring newer volunteer managers in how to do what we do, at the scale we do it.

What is a typical week like for you as a volunteer?

There isn't one singular stereotypical week in this role, but some different modes with different focuses that are more or less typical for me:

  • Going on-call for a week: Translation volunteer managers work from a shared inbox that serves as a first point of contact for all inquiries related to the Translation Committee. Each week, one or two volunteer managers go on-call as the ones primarily responsible for making sure everything gets actioned and squared away as needed. This usually means spending a couple hours each day working through everything in the shared inbox, including but not limited to assigning tasks to translators, checking on translators who were on hiatus, triaging translation requests from other committees, and responding to any questions translators may have in the course of their work.
  • Working on a bigger project, like a series of high-visibility posts (e.g. membership drive, OTW Board elections), opening recruitment, or internal surveys: When Translation does a committee-wide thing, it'll by necessity involve most or even all of our forty-some language teams, each with 1–8 members. Coordinating all that takes some organisational overhead (and some love for checklists and spreadsheets, along with automations where feasible), which typically means sitting down for a few hours on three or four days of the week and chipping away at various related tasks to keep things moving, including but not limited to asking other people to double-check my work before moving on to the next step.
  • Working on smaller tasks: When I want to have a more relaxed week while still being active, I'll sit down on one or two afternoons/evenings, and take care of a task that is fairly straightforward, like scheduling and leading chats to check in with translators or train people on our tools, creating a template document with English text for translation, drafting and updating our internal documentation, asking others to look over and give feedback on my drafts, and giving feedback on others' tasks, drafts, and projects.
  • Weekly chair training/catch-up chats: We have a regular weekly meeting slot to sit down and talk about the few chair-exclusive things in the Translation Committee, as part of chair training.

What made you decide to volunteer?

I actually started volunteering at the OTW as an AO3 tag wrangler back in 2020, when lockdowns were on the horizon and I felt like I could pick up some extra stuff to do. Growing up bilingual and with some extra languages under my belt, I ended up hanging out in some of the spaces with lots of OTW translators. Then I found out that I could internally apply as a Translation volunteer manager, and the rest is pretty much history. At that point I was missing the feeling of doing some volunteer management and admin work anyway!

What has been your biggest challenge doing work for the OTW?

On a high level, I'd say it's striking a balance between the expectations and the reality of the work the Translation Committee does, including the sheer scale. On a more concrete level, it's like this: Being a translator in the Translation Committee is, by default, a relatively low commitment, with a number of optional tasks and rosters that we encourage people to take on, if they have the time and attention to spare. Part of how we ensure that is by dealing with as much of the overhead in advance as we can, as Translation volunteer managers.

This means that for instance, when the English version of a text is updated – which may take about two minutes in the original text – we go through each language team's copy of the text, make the changes as needed in the English copy, highlight what was changed, and reset the status in our internal task tracker so that it can be reassigned to a translator. This way the changed part is clearly visible to the translator, so they can quickly pinpoint what they need to do and make the corresponding changes in the translated text.

For both the author of the original English text and the translator, this is a very quick task. On the admin side, on the other hand, it's the same two-minute process of updating our documents repeated over and over, about 15 times on the low end for frequent news post series that we only assign to teams that consistently have some buffer to absorb the extra workload, and almost 50 times on the high end for some of our staple static pages that (almost) all teams have worked on, meaning it's something that takes somewhere between 30 minutes to almost two hours even when it's a tiny change and you're familiar with the workflow.

(And that's before getting to very last-minute changes and emergency news post translations with less than two days' turnaround time, where we manually track everything across around thirty teams, usually. Each time that has happened, everyone's dedication has blown me away. Thank you so much to everyone who answers those calls, you know who you are!)

What fannish things do you like to do?

I like to read, especially if it's something that plays around with worldbuilding or other things that were left unsaid in canon. I wish there were more hours in the day so that I can pick up some of my creative projects again. I suppose some of my coding projects like my AO3 userscripts and my AO3 Saved Filters bookmarklet also count as fannish?


Now that our volunteer's said five things about what they do, it's your turn to ask one more thing! Feel free to ask about their work in the comments. Or if you'd like, you can check out earlier Five Things posts.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, Transformative Works and Cultures, and OTW Legal Advocacy. We are a fan-run, entirely donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

Monthly Round-Up

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 11:39
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This is the monthly round-up for June 2025.


Fanvid for: 双兔 | Soul Sisters

Wishlist Wednesday

Cover reveals for The Beauty's Blade!

Topic Tuesday: Underrated Dramas

Graphics/Picspam for: Xiao Zhan as Zang Hai for Wet Man Wednesday!

Fanvids for: Hikaru no Go, Justice in the Dark

Quick Rec Wednesday

Review for: Lament of the River Immortal (Feud)

Promo/Rec for: Into the Fire (Hong Kong film, 1989)

Review for: Justice in the Dark

Fanvids for: Justice in the Dark fanvid + Silent Reading song translations

Did You Make a Thing?

Last chance! Pingxie Exchange sign-ups end tomorrow

Fanvid for: 双镜 | Couple of Mirrors

DC-Slash Con Seeking Panel Suggestions Today


And of course we had the monthly round-up for May 2025 and our weekly chats on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the 28th


Did you discover an entry you missed? Come on over and take a look/comment!

JJWXC Reader Annual Report 2024

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 14:09
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 This is a public service announcement for JJWXC users! 

Every year, around January or February, jj releases your previous stats for the year, which can be accessed via searching 年度报告 on the app search bar, or via the link for the web version. The search bar access method may be limited time only as it currently does not work xD But here is the link to access on the browser (just remember to be signed in!).

https://www.jjwxc.net/sp/2024annualuserstat/readerstat.html

More Doll outfit pictures!

Monday, June 30th, 2025 13:42
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I have been sewing a lot recently! It's really fun!

many pictures )

Rebuilding journal search again

Monday, June 30th, 2025 15:18
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

DC-Slash Con Seeking Panel Suggestions Today

Monday, June 30th, 2025 12:44
amedia: Young Chinese woman in a brown plaid coat and tan beret looking excited and pointing toward the right; no caption (Detective L - Qin Xiao Man 1)
[personal profile] amedia posting in [community profile] c_ent
DC-Slash is an online convention coming up at the end of July. We still have ONE DAY for people to make panel suggestions (https://www.dcslash.org/dc-slash-con/programming) and I for one would LOVE to see MOAR Asian Drama-related suggestions!!!

Read more... )

TOS Spotlight: Commercial Promotion

Saturday, June 28th, 2025 17:28
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Spotlight on Policy & Abuse

The Policy & Abuse committee (PAC) is responsible for enforcing the AO3 Terms of Service (TOS). To help users better understand the TOS, we're posting a weekly spotlight series about the TOS and our policies. We'll also be reading comments and answering questions on this and our other spotlight posts.


For our last post in this series, we'll be talking about our non-commercialization policy. AO3 doesn't allow users to engage in commercial promotion of any type, which includes everything from paywalls to tip jars, and quite a lot in between. In this post, we'll discuss why AO3 doesn't allow commercialization, what kinds of activities are considered to be commercial promotion, and what to do if you see commercial promotion on AO3.

Don't go looking for things to report.

Please do not start searching for works to report after reading this post. We know that commercial promotion frequently appears on AO3. However, when people deliberately search for works to report, we end up getting a lot of duplicate tickets about works that have already been reported. Every ticket we receive is reviewed by a PAC volunteer, so we only need one report in order to investigate an issue. We know it seems like sites only respond to mass reports, but on AO3, duplicate and mass reports increase the time it takes our volunteers to investigate.

What is commercial promotion?

Commercial promotion covers all references or links to commercial sites, monetized features of non-commercial sites, and anything else that makes it clear someone is asking for or has received financial contributions.

On AO3, you can't encourage anyone to give other people money, or talk about anyone having given people money in the past. This applies whether you are promoting yourself or a friend, or even if you're collecting donations for other people or causes. If there is money changing hands, then it likely violates AO3's TOS.

AO3 is a non-commercial space.

AO3 was created and is managed by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a nonprofit organization committed to the defense and protection of fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenges. The OTW is entirely staffed by unpaid volunteers, and AO3 is itself entirely non-commercial. No one involved in AO3's creation or management profits from it. The site is made available free of charge to all fans who wish to share their works with other fans and fan communities.

We understand that many people today choose to monetize their creative activities. However, in order to keep AO3 as the non-commercial space it was designed to be, users are not permitted to engage in any commercial activity on the site.

When you use AO3, you agree to follow our Terms of Service, which includes the non-commercialization policy. This applies to all parts of the site, whether you're posting a work based on an existing source or creating content entirely original to you.

AO3's non-commercialization policy applies to the entire site.

Real-world commercialization is banned everywhere on AO3. This includes:

  • Profile pages
  • Usernames, pseuds, and pseud descriptions
  • Works (including all tags, beginning or end notes, chapter notes, summaries, and titles)
  • Series (including titles, summaries, descriptions, and notes)
  • Bookmarks (including tags and notes)
  • Comments
  • Prompt memes, gift exchanges, and other collections
  • Any other part of AO3

It's okay for fictional characters in fanworks to talk about fictional monetization. For example, it's fine if a character has a fictional OnlyFans or Patreon within the story, as long as that commercial reference doesn't direct the reader to a real-world OnlyFans or Patreon account for the work creator or anyone else.

What are some examples of commercial activities?

There is a wide variety of things that are not allowed under AO3's non-commercialization rules.

Links or references to any commercial site or service. A "commercial site" is any site whose primary purpose is to facilitate the transfer of money. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Storefronts like Amazon or Etsy
  • Crowd fundraisers like Kickstarter or GoFundMe​​
  • Tip jars or membership subscriptions like Ko-Fi or Patreon
  • ​​Payment platforms like PayPal or Venmo

Links or references to the monetized features of non-commercial sites. This covers any site that has features you can enable or opt-in to earn revenue, but the primary purpose of the site is social media, sharing artwork, or anything else that isn't inherently payment-focused. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Paywalls or early-access content like Wattpad Paid Stories or Webtoon Canvas
  • Storefronts like DeviantArt Shop or Instagram Shop
  • Tip jars or membership subscriptions like TikTok Donation Stickers or Twitch Prime

Previews and other promotions for paid content. This covers situations like excerpts or teasers shared in an attempt to entice people to purchase a book or become a paying subscriber. It also includes references to paywalled or early-access content (e.g. "Patreon subscribers get the new chapter one week early before I post it on AO3").

Advertising content or services involving an exchange of money, such as buying merchandise, collecting donations, offering paid commissions, or selling published works.

Any other language which one might interpret as requesting or having requested financial contributions, whether for yourself or others. This covers indirect references, euphemisms, or other language intended to get around the TOS. Some examples of this include:

  • Thanks for the coffee!
  • My ☕ username is the same as my username here
  • This chapter is brought to you by my patrons
  • You know where to find me if you want early or bonus chapters
  • Check out my Twitter to learn how you can donate to me since I'm not allowed to discuss it here
  • If you want to hear more about my ideas, talk about fandom, or find more of my stuff for a coin, visit my Tumblr

Solicitation is not allowed, whether it's for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

Commercial activity is not permitted on AO3. It doesn't matter if you're promoting yourself or a friend, or even if you're collecting donations for other people or causes.

This means that if you paid an artist to create artwork for your fanfic, you're not allowed to mention that they have a Patreon or use any other language that suggests people should also commission or donate to them. If you like a book by a particular author, you are certainly welcome to gush about what a great book it is, but you can't link to the Amazon page where it's for sale or encourage others to buy it.

What is the difference between a commercial site and a non-commercial site that has monetization features?

As mentioned above, a commercial site is a platform that is first and foremost intended to facilitate the exchange of money. For example, while you can use Ko-Fi as a blog, the site's primary purpose is to encourage people to give each other money. Ko-Fi's social features are secondary to its purpose as a donation and paid membership platform. This means you cannot link to or mention your or anyone else's actual Ko-Fi on AO3 whatsoever.

An example of a non-commercial site that has monetization features is DeviantArt, an art gallery that is mainly intended as a place to share artworks. DeviantArt also allows its users to opt-in to additional monetization features, such as the DeviantArt Shop. Because DeviantArt's paid features are both optional and not the primary reason people use the site, you can talk about or link to DeviantArt on AO3 – as long as you aren't directing anyone to a paywalled post or referencing DeviantArt's paid features in any way.

Can I link or mention a social media site where I talk about making money or collecting donations?

You're allowed to link or mention social media like Tumblr or personal websites like WordPress, even if you sometimes post about commercial activities on those sites. However, you cannot reference commercial promotion on AO3 itself, nor may you link, mention, or give instructions for finding an account, page, or post that is solely promoting paid content.

Statements such as "Follow me on social media" or "Check out my Linktree" are fine. Directing people to an Amazon author page or to the Ko-fi link in your Twitter bio would not be allowed. This includes things like "Check out my Linktree to learn how you can support me" in cases where you are clearly referring to monetary support.

Can I post a fanwork created for a charity drive or for-profit zine?

While you cannot promote, solicit, or otherwise ask for donations on AO3, you are allowed to add your work to a collection or otherwise briefly mention why you created a fanwork, as long as you do so in a non-commercial manner. This means you can say "This was created for [Event]" or "Originally Written for [Name of Person/Zine]" as long as you do not directly link to a donation page or ask others to donate to them.

Keep in mind we also do not permit mentions of monetary transactions, regardless of when they occurred. A note such as "This was a $100 bid for Fandom Trumps Hate" would still be considered commercialization.

I've seen authors say their works are commissions. Is this allowed?

You are allowed to gift your work to someone else or otherwise briefly mention why you created a fanwork, as long as you do so in a non-commercial manner. Because not all commissioned fanworks were created for pay, we do permit usage of the word "commission" as long as there is no indication that a monetary transaction was involved in the creation of the work or that you are available to create other paid commissions.

For example, phrasing like "This is a commission for X" is acceptable, but "Commission for my Gold Tier Patron, Julie" or "My client agreed to let me post the first chapter of their commission" isn't. The context makes it clear that both "patron" and "client" are references to a paying sponsor.

I've seen others ask for donations or advertise paid commissions. Why can't I?

As our TOS FAQ explains, we don't review content until it's reported to us. You may have seen somebody else mentioning their paywalled content or otherwise engaging in commercial activities on AO3, but that doesn't mean that it's allowed. All it means is that nobody has reported that content to us yet, or that we haven't finished processing the report.

What will happen if I get reported for commercial promotion?

First, we'll review the reported work to confirm that you violated our TOS by engaging in commercial activities on AO3. If we determine that you did, we'll send you an email telling you to remove the violating material.

If your work can be edited to fix the issue, you'll be asked to edit the work. Your work may be hidden from other users until you do. If you choose not to edit the work, or if your work cannot be edited into compliance with the TOS, it will be deleted.

PAC will only ever contact you by email, and only after we've determined that your work violates our Terms of Service. We will never comment on your work or contact you through social media. Please make sure to keep your account's email address up to date and check it regularly (including your spam folder), or else you may miss our warning email.

If you repeatedly post works that violate our commercial promotion policies, you may be temporarily suspended. Continuing to violate the TOS will result in your being permanently banned from AO3. You can learn more about warnings and suspensions in our TOS FAQ.

What should I do if I encounter commercial activity on AO3?

You can give the creator a heads up by politely commenting on their work and linking to the TOS FAQ or this post. Alternatively, you can report the work to us.

What about spam comments?

The best way to deal with spam comments, commercial or otherwise, depends on whether the comments are from registered accounts or guests.

How do I report commercial activity?

Although we ask that you do not deliberately seek out commercial promotion to report, if you come across commercial activity while browsing, you can report it using the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form, which is linked at the bottom of every page on AO3.

Please don't report more than one user at a time or submit multiple reports about the same user. When reporting multiple works by the same user, please submit only one report with links to each work you're reporting, so that all information about that user is in the same place.

Please tell us exactly where in the work the commercialization is. The best way to do this is to give us a description or short quote that we can search for in order to immediately find the content. If you are reporting multiple works by the same creator, please group all the works into one report and provide this information for each work.

For example, a report of commercial promotion might look like this:

Link to the page you are reporting: https://archiveofourown.org/works/00000000

Brief summary of Terms of Service violation: Commercial promotion

Description of the content you are reporting:
This work by USERNAME advertises a ko-fi in the end notes of chapter 3.

If you are reporting additional works, please include all relevant links and other information in your report description:

Description of the content you are reporting:
This work by USERNAME advertises a ko-fi in the end notes of chapter 3.

Some of their other works also contain commercial promotion:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23456789 encourages readers to purchase their book on Amazon: "If you're curious what else I've been working on or want to support me elsewhere, check out my new short story on Kindle Unlimited!"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34567890 contains an embedded image with a Patreon watermark. Underneath, the sentence "If you want more like this, click here" takes you to their commissions price sheet.

You can add more details if you like, but this example provides the basic information we need:

  • Who posted the commercial promotion: Tell us their username or if the work is anonymous or orphaned.
  • Where we can find the work(s): Enter one URL in the "Link to the page you are reporting" field, and (if applicable) include links to any other violating works in the description of your report.
  • What violates the TOS: Explain why you think commercial promotion has occurred, for example by including a quote and/or providing context for a comment exchange. A brief description of the situation is fine; you don't need to be very detailed or quote an entire TOS or FAQ section.

You'll receive an automatic email confirming that we received your report, and our volunteers will investigate when they get a chance. Please be patient and do not submit another report about the same work. While PAC investigates every report we receive, it can take several months for us to process a report, and not every report will receive a reply.

What if I have more questions about commercial promotion?

PAC follows a strict confidentiality policy. Therefore, while you are welcome to ask general questions in the comments of this post, we will not give information on specific cases, publicly rule on a work, or update you on the status of a report you have already submitted. Comments on this post that discuss specific works or users will be removed.

If you think you've found commercial promotion on AO3, or if you want to know whether a particular work contains commercial promotion, please report the work to us as described above. For more information, you can read our TOS FAQ on Commercial Promotion.

If you are still uncertain, you can comment below or submit a question through the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form.

Releases 0.9.409 - 0.9.413: Change Log

Thursday, June 26th, 2025 17:20
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In May and June, we made some security additions for user accounts by adding email notifications when an account's username or password is changed. We also made some improvements around tag sets and challenge signups. As one more security change, we also permanently disabled image embedding in guest comments.

A special thank you to our new contributors Ashley Tan, dismayonnaise, Grayson von Goetz, Jen Mann, kitbur, and ryelle!

Credits

  • Coders: Ashley Tan, Bilka, Brian Austin, Ceithir, Connie Feng, dismayonnaise, EchoEkhi, Grayson von Goetz, Hamham6, Jen Mann, kitbur, marcus8448, ryelle, Sarken, Scott, slavalamp, weeklies
  • Code reviewers: Bilka, Brian Austin, Ceithir, james_, lydia-theda, redsummernight, slavalamp, Sarken, weeklies
  • Testers: Bilka, Brian Austin, choux, Deniz, Eskici, LilyP, Lute, lydia-theda, Maine, megidola, Runt, Sam Johnsson, Sarken, Scott, Tal, Teyris, therealmorticia, wichard

Details

0.9.409

On May 11, we deployed some improvements to tag sets and added an email notification whenever the username on your account is changed.

  • [AO3-5513] - Admins can now successfully create and rename media tags without running into 500 errors or caching issues.
  • [AO3-5714] - When a canonical fandom and a non-canonical character or relationship were added to the same tag set, the non-canonical tags were automatically listed under the fandom. However, this is just how the tags were displayed in the tag set. They weren't really connected to the fandom, which meant they weren't included in autocompletes and couldn't be used in challenge sign-ups. We've stopped automatically listing the non-canonical tags under the fandom and will instead only do it if the tag set moderators set up an association (which will also make the non-canonical tags usable in sign-ups and help ensure they appear in the autocomplete).
  • [AO3-5919] - We updated the code for kudos emails to avoid using a method that wasn't particularly efficient.
  • [AO3-6757] - When an admin hides a comment, any embedded images in the hidden comment will now be replaced with the image URLs.
  • [AO3-6844] - We fixed a whole bunch of display and page structure issues on pages that list the tags in a tag set.
  • [AO3-6977] - We've started spam checking edits to comments from new users and stopped spam checking any comments a work creator leaves on their own work.
  • [AO3-6981] - To improve account security, we now send you an email when you (or someone logged in to your account) change your username.
  • [AO3-6984] - Our dependency updater bumped our version of net-imap to 0.5.7. It's not something we use, but keeping dependencies up to date is good.
  • [AO3-6988] - We started caching the package installs involved in our automated tests, making each test run faster.
  • [AO3-6990] - We bumped our version of the rack gem to 2.2.14 to get the latest security fix.

0.9.410

On May 16, we added an email notification whenever the password of your account is changed. We also made a number of small improvements all around the site.

  • [AO3-5712] - Under certain circumstances, it was possible to sign up for a challenge using a character or relationship that wasn't permitted by the challenge's tag set. Now you'll get an error if you try to do that.
  • [AO3-6267] - If a draft chapter was added to a work in your History, your History would lie to you and say an update to the work was available. Now it will only tell you an update is available if a new chapter has been published since you last accessed the work.
  • [AO3-6627] - Whenever a site admin tried to update the roles for a user who already had roles outside the admin's purview, those existing roles would be removed. (For example, when a Tag Wrangling admin gave the tag wrangler role to a user who had the Open Doors archivist role, the user would lose their archivist role.) We've fixed it so any existing roles will stay in place.
  • [AO3-6994] - We fixed an issue that was causing our spam checker to run on comments from accounts with recently changed email addresses.
  • [AO3-6005] - We used feature tests somewhere we should've been using unit tests, so we changed them over.
  • [AO3-6975] - At some point the admin setting for how long to keep around unactivated accounts had become disconnected from the code it was meant to control. We fixed this so the setting once again affects the right piece of code.
  • [AO3-6970] - When the Policy & Abuse committee hides a work, you get an automatic email to notify you. To prepare for some future changes, we've updated the email text to allow for multiple works in the same email.
  • [AO3-6973] - Another account security enhancement: you'll now get an email when you (or someone accessing your account) change or reset your password.

0.9.411

On May 24, we deployed an improvement to word counts for multichapter works on the Statistics page. We also took steps to fight abuse in guest comments by preventing them from ever displaying embedded images.

  • [AO3-3818] - On some specific browsers on certain devices, leaving comments or submitting support tickets would result in an error. We've now fixed that.
  • [AO3-4190] - Every time invitations were sent, the log on the site settings page updated to say the settings had been modified. We've fixed it so it will only say the settings have been updated when an admin updates them.
  • [AO3-7000] - One of the external links in the Creating a Skin help pop-up pointed to a site that had been taken over by a crypto magazine, so we've replaced it with a new resource for learning about CSS.
  • [AO3-6995] - In a previous release, we tried to drop an unused database column. Unfortunately, we had to put it back when it turned out Rails was still looking for the column due to caching. We've now made a code change that will let us drop the column for real after a future release.
  • [AO3-5270] - The yearly word counts on your Statistics page will now only count words written in chapters posted in that year. That means if you add a chapter to a WIP you started last year, the words you wrote last year will still count toward 2024's total instead of being added to 2025's total.
  • [AO3-5347] - The notification you get when someone cites your work as a related work has now been prepared for translation.
  • [AO3-6092] - A while ago, we unintentionally fixed a bug where the chapter title didn't display in Entire Work mode if the work only had one posted chapter. Now we've added an automated test to make sure we don't unintentionally break it again.
  • [AO3-6684] - The close button on the banner we use for sitewide announcements uses an ×, which typically makes sense if you're looking at the page, but which gets read as "multiplication sign" if you're using a screen reader. That was confusing, so we've made sure screen readers will now say "hide banner" instead.
  • [AO3-6967] - We've added a second save button to the top of tag edit pages to make things a little more convenient when the page is long and a wrangler is just changing something at the top of the form.
  • [AO3-6987] - Under certain circumstances, we strip embedded images from certain fields. We used to just show the image URL when we did that, but now we show all of the HTML.
  • [AO3-6991] - As a safety measure, guest comments with embedded images will always show the HTML instead of embedded images. (This includes existing guest comments.)

0.9.412

On June 5, we deployed a small release with some bug fixes.

  • [AO3-6166] - If you knew the ID of an unrevealed work you could access a few subpages of the work, such as the collections page, and find out the title of the work that way. Since that's meant to be unrevealed, we've changed these pages so you can no longer access them if the work is unrevealed.
  • [AO3-6937] - We changed the browser page title on inbox pages to a format that matches other user pages: "username - Inbox | Archive of Our Own."
  • [AO3-6953] - We made sure you'll get an error message if you attempt to clear your History and it fails.
  • [AO3-6993] - The Edit Multiple Works page will no longer display a bunch of unusable options when you don't have any works. Instead, it will simply tell you you don't have any works.
  • [AO3-6550] - When displaying work titles, we used to call a function on them that had already been called. We've stopped doing that since it's redundant.
  • [AO3-6948] - We added some code to enable us to monitor the performance of the job that sends invitations to people in the invitation queue.

0.9.413

Our June 16 deploy added the ability to embed media from audio.com in works.

  • [AO3-6515] - We fixed an error 500 that occured when a work with end notes was marked as published, but only had draft chapters.
  • [AO3-6912] - We changed the browser page title for unrevealed works to include the site name at the end.
  • [AO3-6437] - We removed some unused database tables.
  • [AO3-6996] - We finally dropped that unused database column and removed the code we added to make that go smoothly.
  • [AO3-6235] - Admins from the Policy & Abuse committee can now turn invitation requests on and off from the site settings page.
  • [AO3-6588] - Admins from the Open Doors and Support committees can now give users the role that disables password reset emails for their account.
  • [AO3-7003] - You can now add embeds from audio.com to your works.

2025 OTW Elections Candidates Announcement

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 00:47
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Organization for Transformative Works: Elections News: Cast Your Vote!

Candidates Announcement

The Organization for Transformative Works is pleased to announce the following candidates for the 2025 Election (in alphabetical order by given name):

  • C. Ryan S.
  • Elizabeth W.
  • Harlan L.B.

Because we have 2 seats to be filled and 3 candidates, the 2025 election will be contested – that is, the members of the OTW will vote on which candidates fill the seats. The Elections Committee is excited to introduce the candidates to all of the members of the OTW! Included in this post are links to short Bios and Platforms written by the candidates. This post also marks the beginning of our Q&A period, during which we invite the public to submit questions for the candidates. Additionally, we will be holding a series of live chats – dates and times for those are to be announced based on candidate availability. Information on the voting period and how to vote will also be posted shortly. In the meantime, there is a timeline of Elections events available here for your reference. Read on to learn more about our candidates and how you can submit questions for them!

Platforms and Bios

We asked each candidate to provide us with a Bio that sums up their professional and fannish experience, as well as to write a Platform about their goals for their term on the Board by answering the following questions:

  • Why did you decide to run for election to the Board?
  • What skills and/or experience would you bring to the Board?
  • Choose one or two goals for the OTW that are important to you and that you would be interested in working on during your term. Why do you value these goals? How would you work with others to achieve them?
  • What is your experience with the OTW's projects and how would you collaborate with the relevant committees to support and strengthen them? Try to include a range of projects, though feel free to emphasize particular ones you have experience with.
  • How would you balance your Board work with other roles in the OTW, or how do you plan to hand over your current roles to focus on Board work?

You can read both the candidates' answers to these questions and their bios by following the links below.

Question & Answer (Q&A)

To better accommodate the time constraints of the election and the workload for candidates, we are asking voters to limit to one question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded. Limit of three questions per person. Anyone may submit questions via the Elections form. Please submit all questions by 11:59pm UTC on June 29 (what time is that where I live?). All candidates will answer each question submitted, subject to the following restrictions:

  • Questions must be a maximum of 50 words long.
  • Any submitted questions repeating what is already addressed on Platforms will be ignored. This is to allow candidates to dedicate more time to answering new questions.
  • Similar questions will be grouped together to avoid candidates giving repetitive answers. Elections volunteers will decide which questions are similar enough to group.
  • If you have a follow-up to a Platform question, please specifically mention it is a follow-up so Elections volunteers know not to treat it as a repeat.
  • One question per message. Additional questions in the same message will be discarded.
  • Maximum of three questions per person.

The posting date for answers will be chosen depending on the number of questions received. Posts will be spread out, arranged by topic, to make it easier for voters to read all the answers.

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