![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
on browsing & reading on AO3
Aug. 24th, 2011 05:11 pmWith lj being all flooey of late, AO3's been seeing an uptick in activity (which is awesome!) (along with an uptick in 502 errors, which is less awesome, but we're looking into it; the coders are doing all they can & then some, as usual!) I've also seen a few complaints here and there about annoyances in browsing and reading on the Archive, the biggest being the 1,000 works limit.
If you've only read smaller fandoms on AO3 you won't have run across it, but AO3 has a cap of 1,000 results on any search or filtering. This was an early stopgap to prevent the servers from going 'splodey, and initially it didn't matter much, because there weren't 1,000 works of anything. But nowadays, if you want to read, say, Stargate Atlantis fic, with over 10,000 works, clicking on SGA brings up less than 10% of the available fic.
Eventually there will be fixes to the 1,000 works cap; the problem is being worked on (as evidenced by the 502s, server-'splodeyness is still a concern). Until then, however, there are still plenty of ways around it! If you're a completist trying to see all the fics (ALL OF THEM!) here's a few tricks to help you out:
( Sort by, Tag Filters, and Search )
Hopefully this will help improve your AO3 experience! If you have any other tricks and tips, or questions about how to do any of this, please leave a comment below - and happy ficcing!
If you've only read smaller fandoms on AO3 you won't have run across it, but AO3 has a cap of 1,000 results on any search or filtering. This was an early stopgap to prevent the servers from going 'splodey, and initially it didn't matter much, because there weren't 1,000 works of anything. But nowadays, if you want to read, say, Stargate Atlantis fic, with over 10,000 works, clicking on SGA brings up less than 10% of the available fic.
Eventually there will be fixes to the 1,000 works cap; the problem is being worked on (as evidenced by the 502s, server-'splodeyness is still a concern). Until then, however, there are still plenty of ways around it! If you're a completist trying to see all the fics (ALL OF THEM!) here's a few tricks to help you out:
( Sort by, Tag Filters, and Search )
Hopefully this will help improve your AO3 experience! If you have any other tricks and tips, or questions about how to do any of this, please leave a comment below - and happy ficcing!
