Archive of Our Own ^beta

2010 was a wonderful year for the AO3! It was our first full year in Open Beta! We ran two big challenges and lots of smaller ones! We filled up our servers, introduced a bunch of new features, made 1451 code commits and got shout-outs all over the web.

Our team had an eventful year! People moved countries, travelled across continents, changed jobs, got PhDs and had babies. Oh, and we built this great Archive for fandom to enjoy! We feel a great sense of achievement!

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who worked on the Archive during 2010: coders, testers, sysadmins, tag wranglers, support team, designers, and many more!

We're also hugely grateful to all Archive users and members of the OTW for your great feedback, your generous financial contributions (which will pay for beautiful new servers this year), and most importantly, your fannish energy and creations, which are the true heart of the Archive. At the close of 2010 we had:

• 7,927 fandoms
• 11,504 users
• 128,806 works
• 4,949 series
• 591 collections
• 164,450 tags (of which 100,046 are 'canonical' and can be filtered on, 79,294 are character tags, and 45,569 relationship tags)
• 158,639 comments
• 69,153 bookmarks
• 40,299 kudos

We think this is an AMAZING output for just over a year of real usage! GO GO FANDOM!

We're looking forward to seeing what awesome new fannish output 2011 brings! Thanks everyone for your support! Happy New Year!