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Celebrating AO3’s 16th Anniversary
AO3 is turning 16! It’s been another year of growth for AO3. Since this time last year, we passed both eight million and nine million registered users! We also passed 14 million, 15 million, and 16 million fanworks on the site, including one million works in Mandarin Chinese—the first non-English language to reach this milestone! AO3’s committees have also done a lot of important work this year! Accessibility, Design, & Technology published multiple important code releases, including security improvements like sending you an email when you or someone logged in to your account changes your username, password, or email as well as new features like… Read more
Celebrating the OTW’s 18th Anniversary
September 5 is the OTW’s birthday and this year, we are turning 18 years old! To celebrate this event, let’s look back at some of the milestones the OTW’s projects – AO3, TWC, Open Doors, Fanlore, and Legal Advocacy – have achieved over the years: As the first OTW Project, Legal Advocacy was launched in 2007, the same year as the organization itself. In February of 2008, TWC released its first call for papers! Shortly after, in June, Fanlore was launched. In late 2009, AO3 first went live. Roughly one year later, AO3 reached 10,000 users, with growth of the community accelerating ever since. In… Read more
Celebrating AO3’s 15th Anniversary
Start the party, the AO3 is turning 15 today! This year has been full of exciting new milestones. Our total number of users has passed 7.5 million, with the number of works on the archive surpassing 13.8 million! (with over 1.6 million of them written in languages other than English) To celebrate AO3’s birthday, we prepared two fandom-related activities: a trivia game and a prompt challenge. You can find further details below! Trivia Game! How much do you know about AO3, beyond where to find your favorite works? About its history, infrastructure, or functionalities? Find out by participating in our AO3 trivia game. Who knows… Read more