I'm sorry, but the Ao3 can still not host anything but text and nobody seems to have a problem telling people to patiently wait for that. You have no problem telling people to wait patiently for the work type categories right here. But it's really too much to ask from the people who wanted to have meta on the Archive to wait till we have said work categories and filtering will be easier? Didn't you imply that patience would go a long way?
It's nice to know that work on the code for said work type categories will probably start in August and that it's finally on the agenda at all again. I was happy to see it on the roadmap again - although the last roadmap promised a lot of stuff that never was worked on. I understand that it's not easy to implement the work categories and that it will take time and I'd be totally okay with that if the OTW would be upfront about the fact that it was a huge mistake not to think of this from the start. Because now a major overhaul of the whole database is needed and the longer down the line it happens the more complicated it gets, especially when you invite in a new text based type of fanwork.
Which is why I think meta could really have waited a little longer - at least until coders had time to make feasible plans for how all this is going to work. And maybe if this would have been handled differently, nobody would have been so angry about it in the first place. That is what most people in the last discussion were saying.
Meta is welcome on the Archive for all I care, so is Podfic and Fanart and Vids and Cosplay pics and whatever else people come up with. But the creators of these other fanworks have been waiting for much longer for categories and appropriate posting posibilties. I'm sure fic writers and readers would be okay with it, too, with a better way to filter fanworks.
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Anon (Guest) Mon 01 Jul 2013 08:56AM UTC
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