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DSSS 2010 Stories & Art are LIVE!
Dec. 24th, 2010 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sageYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I'm so excited!
First, a couple of reminders:
- Please give the gift of feedback, especially on the work you receive! The best part of DSSS -- besides getting a gift work custom-made for you -- is getting comments on what you made, so if you like a work, please take a minute to tell the author or artist!
- Participants, your works are still anonymous! Author and Artist Reveal is Jan. 1st, so please WAIT until Reveal to reply to comments on your works!
Some Last Minute AO3 User Hints:
1. Last week, the AO3 added a new "Leave Kudos" button for users to signal "yay!" without leaving a comment. Happily, this link may work even when comment forms are glacial! However, there's no personalization; your username simply appears in the work's kudos list.
2. AO3 comment & kudos notifications are sent to your email by default! Go into "My Preferences" if you need to change your notification settings.
3. AO3 indexes are sortable! Just click the "Sort By" links at the top of the page to sort by hit count, word count, date posted, etc.
4. AO3 indexes are filterable! The Filter pane on the right allows you to filter entries by the tags the author/artist included.
5. The AO3 servers are under super-high demand this weekend. Please be patient! If the site is slow for you, it MIGHT help to switch to Plain Text Style, which is stripped of intra-AO3 graphics, including the code boxes on the index with category, rating, and warning info. (Externally hosted art is still visible!) To change your page style, go to: http://archiveofourown.org/skins and click the "USE" button under the "Plain Text" link. (If you don't like the look, you can always change it back.)
Okay! Here we go!
Recipients, there are THREE ways to get your gift work! One, check your email! Two, check your "My Gifts" link in the AO3 left nav bar. And three, dive into the entire, fabulous
Again, thank you all for being so awesome and making this a great challenge! Happy reading, happy viewing, and happy DSSS!!! ♥
p.s. If you need help using the archive, here's the FAQ. Also, you're welcome to leave questions below. I'll be around intermittently, so I invite those of you familiar with the ins and outs of the AO3 to pop by and offer help to anyone who needs it. Thank you kindly!
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ETA:
We're seeing some bugs in the archive, seemingly due to people trying to edit their works after I'd closed the collection, although we don't have confirmation of that yet. I've preemptively re-opened the collection to see if that fixes it. Also,at least one work is missing its recipient. Participants, please check over your works and make sure all your info is correct.
Ande, you are the recipient of All Directions are South, All Signs Point to Yes.
I'll update this if I find any more bugs. Thanks!
ETA #2
Okay, the bug is definitely connected to users editing after the mods close a challenge to new posts. The easiest fix for this is for me to simply leave the collection open until they fix the bugs. That way you all have the freedom to go back and fix any typos, elided words, etc. without having your work fall out of the collection.
AO3 Support *is* aware of the bug and got back to me super-fast, despite it being 4am Christmas Morning. It's going to take them some time to track down the cause of the problem, however. If you were affected by the bug -- meaning your work fell out of the collection or ANY info (recipient, tags, fandom, or anything else) vanished from your entry, please help the AO3 out by commenting in detail about what happened. (Anonymous is fine, as long as you identify the post as "gift for ____" -- I can tell them who you are if they need to know which account met which problem.) As with all bug reporting issues, the more procedural detail that will show a tech how to reproduce the event, the better.
Thanks again, and a very happy weekend to you all! ♥
First, a couple of reminders:
- Please give the gift of feedback, especially on the work you receive! The best part of DSSS -- besides getting a gift work custom-made for you -- is getting comments on what you made, so if you like a work, please take a minute to tell the author or artist!
- Participants, your works are still anonymous! Author and Artist Reveal is Jan. 1st, so please WAIT until Reveal to reply to comments on your works!
Some Last Minute AO3 User Hints:
1. Last week, the AO3 added a new "Leave Kudos" button for users to signal "yay!" without leaving a comment. Happily, this link may work even when comment forms are glacial! However, there's no personalization; your username simply appears in the work's kudos list.
2. AO3 comment & kudos notifications are sent to your email by default! Go into "My Preferences" if you need to change your notification settings.
3. AO3 indexes are sortable! Just click the "Sort By" links at the top of the page to sort by hit count, word count, date posted, etc.
4. AO3 indexes are filterable! The Filter pane on the right allows you to filter entries by the tags the author/artist included.
5. The AO3 servers are under super-high demand this weekend. Please be patient! If the site is slow for you, it MIGHT help to switch to Plain Text Style, which is stripped of intra-AO3 graphics, including the code boxes on the index with category, rating, and warning info. (Externally hosted art is still visible!) To change your page style, go to: http://archiveofourown.org/skins and click the "USE" button under the "Plain Text" link. (If you don't like the look, you can always change it back.)
Okay! Here we go!
Recipients, there are THREE ways to get your gift work! One, check your email! Two, check your "My Gifts" link in the AO3 left nav bar. And three, dive into the entire, fabulous
dSSS_2010 Collection! \o/
Again, thank you all for being so awesome and making this a great challenge! Happy reading, happy viewing, and happy DSSS!!! ♥
p.s. If you need help using the archive, here's the FAQ. Also, you're welcome to leave questions below. I'll be around intermittently, so I invite those of you familiar with the ins and outs of the AO3 to pop by and offer help to anyone who needs it. Thank you kindly!
~~~~~~
ETA:
We're seeing some bugs in the archive, seemingly due to people trying to edit their works after I'd closed the collection, although we don't have confirmation of that yet. I've preemptively re-opened the collection to see if that fixes it. Also,
Ande, you are the recipient of All Directions are South, All Signs Point to Yes.
I'll update this if I find any more bugs. Thanks!
ETA #2
Okay, the bug is definitely connected to users editing after the mods close a challenge to new posts. The easiest fix for this is for me to simply leave the collection open until they fix the bugs. That way you all have the freedom to go back and fix any typos, elided words, etc. without having your work fall out of the collection.
AO3 Support *is* aware of the bug and got back to me super-fast, despite it being 4am Christmas Morning. It's going to take them some time to track down the cause of the problem, however. If you were affected by the bug -- meaning your work fell out of the collection or ANY info (recipient, tags, fandom, or anything else) vanished from your entry, please help the AO3 out by commenting in detail about what happened. (Anonymous is fine, as long as you identify the post as "gift for ____" -- I can tell them who you are if they need to know which account met which problem.) As with all bug reporting issues, the more procedural detail that will show a tech how to reproduce the event, the better.
Thanks again, and a very happy weekend to you all! ♥
