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  • AO3 Celebrates 17 Million Fanworks

    Published: Fri 06 Mar 2026 05:19PM UTC Comments: 60

    A lot has been going on at the Archive of Our Own (AO3) lately! In January, we celebrated 10 million registered users on AO3. February was all about International Fanworks Day, which we celebrated with several events, culminating in our 30-hour chat and games party over on Discord. And now, we've hit another milestone: 17 million fanworks on AO3!

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  • February 2026 Newsletter, Volume 208

    Published: Thu 05 Mar 2026 01:48PM UTC Comments: 29

    On February 15, Communications coordinated many International Fanworks Day (IFD) activities, including a Feedback Fest highlighting fanwork recommendations, an editing challenge in conjunction with Fanlore, and an IFD Discord server with games and chatting. Additionally, Translation helped make IFD materials available in 22 languages. Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating!

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  • Releases 0.9.447 - 0.9.452: Change Log

    Published: Wed 25 Feb 2026 11:22PM UTC Comments: 40

    We released several batches of bug fixes and code updates in December, focusing on error handling, improvements to the posting and browsing of works, and largely invisible code optimization. Many thanks to our coders, code reviewers, and testers!

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