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The Organization for Transformative Works’s October Membership Drive is over and we are delighted to say that we are finishing with a total of US$314,539.76 raised. We are particularly pleased that 7,623 donors chose to either take up or renew OTW membership with their donation, exceeding our goal of 5,000 members. These donations came from 9,131 people in 86 countries: thank you to every single one of them, as well as to all of you who posted and shared the news about the drive! The OTW would not exist without its users all around the world, and your continued support for us is our absolute… Read more

AO3 continues to grow and pass new milestones. As part of that, there are even more tags on AO3! Did you know that every tag on AO3 is reviewed by a person and not an algorithm or automatic process? Volunteers called Tag Wranglers connect and sort the tags on AO3! Once users add tags to their works and bookmarks, they show up on the backend where Tag Wranglers can review them and connect them to canonicals, so that these tags appear in the autocomplete filters and link related works together. Let’s have a look at numbers: since AO3 was created in 2009, Tag Wranglers have… Read more

The Organization for Transformative Works’s April Membership Drive is over and we are delighted to say that we are finishing with a total of $362,171.85 raised, far exceeding our goal of US$150,000. These donations came from 9,702 people in 87 countries: thank you to every single one of them, as well as to all of you who posted and shared the news about the drive! We are particularly pleased that 8,035 donors chose to take up or renew an OTW membership with their donation. The OTW would not exist without its users all around the world, and your continued support for us is our absolute… Read more

In case you missed it, earlier this month AO3 exited open beta! Earlier this year, we also reached 10 million users and 17 million fanworks. We’re awed by all these milestones we’ve reached as a community, and, as always, are very grateful for all your support. These milestones would not be possible without the hard work of the volunteers who are part of the Accessibility, Design, & Technology committee (AD&T). AD&T is the team behind developing, updating, and maintaining the AO3’s software and infrastructure, whose work you can keep up with by reading the release notes posts with the list of code updates and fixes…. Read more