Wait for it

Que weno

is anyone going to tell the people in the notes who are calling the driver an idiot that they did not, in fact, wait for it?

(or that the driver that other people so clearly see is, in fact, not)

ok fuck that got me

i wish all gas and electricity firms a very happy die

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

Ao3 is not:

-trying to set you against other users in competition, as algorithn-manipulated sites do.

-trying to make you feel certain ways so that you will use the site more, as social media do

-manipulating you to feel certain ways for profit (they don't profit at all)

-trying to make you use the site in ways that give passive income (again, no such income)

like social media do.

It's an actual site, where you can look at things as you will, and are responsible for your own interests; not one that tries to hold your hand in bad faith and for its own gain, as social media do.

Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm either. Writers tag their stuff, and there’s a lot of overlap between tags used on AO3 and tags used on tumblr specifically by fanfic authors because we often have both. Tumblr’s attempts at algorithms have not done well so far because of the level of anonymity, and AO3 will never include a popularity feature because it is an archive, not social media.

The Archive treats every work on it equally, so every fic has the exact same chance of appearing in search results. Fics with 1458382 hits will never drown out fics with 30 hits and make them more difficult to find or appear at the bottom of search results. All that matters is how relevant it is to the amount of fields you searched. That’s it.

I can solve this millennial or gen z confusion

If you had any of the following phones as a teenager you’re a millennial. If you started teenage years with an iPhone you’re gen z.

see also: did you need to carry around a separate device to listen to your music with which had no speakers so if you forgot headphones you were fucked