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So on the one hand, tag filtering being down at AO3 is a major pain, because there's a particular fic I want to read and I know how to get there via tags and don't particularly care to try and search for it otherwise.

On the other hand, tag filtering being down on AO3 is fucking awesome, because "# of works found in [specific tag]" no longer cuts off at 1,000. I methodically went through the entire archive by a particular 'ship when it was limited to 1,000, and it was fifty pages of potential deliciousness, and now there's a good fifty more pages for my current 'ship + fandom parameters.

On the other other hand, that's potentially disastrous, because I will totally spend more time than I have any right to going through all the pages of fic I haven't seen before and will regret it deeply when it comes time to measure my productivity levels.

*dryly* Clearly my life is fraught with tragedy and peril.

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inarticulate

Looking again, it looks like it only does that when you're searching tags to begin with (as opposed to clicking them), so IDK if it's at full capacity of usefulness, but hey! :3c I am really psyched by the possibility of major changes to the limitations of the filter system.

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soc_puppet

Hmm; well, I do appreciate no longer having to scroll through a ginormous list of options to find the one or two I want, and then being stuck in entirely the wrong place on the web page when I click "back" after I've gone through the search results (for some reason, I prefer to re-start at the beginning rather then from a prior search). Still, not being able to see all the options available has its own problems.

Someday, there will be a search engine that anticipates my whims. Today is not that day.

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inarticulate

Oh, yeah, it's definitely not anywhere near perfect! I really hope they don't keep the filter down forever. I'm just like… whee, I can still use AO3 even though they took this down, haha. (I experienced a massive upsurge in desire to read fic in fandoms I'm not even in just as the 502 errors started, so that's where I'm coming from.)

Honestly, what I'm hoping is that they take this and build a new search/filter functionality that's less weight on the servers (and hopefully sans limit). It's more that taking down the filters is letting me see what they're capable of doing and the directions they're capable of going; I definitely don't think this is in any way permanent.

On a personal note, I'd love something more streamlined or something along the lines of pinboard/delicious-- where you can click to add or remove tags you're filtering by, so that it's sticky without having to go through a massive user interface again every time you want to change something. But I suspect that would be a pretty massive undertaking code-wise, and it wouldn't necessarily work for things like screenreaders or mobile devices. :(a

…………Also I think you caught some of my massive Thoughts On AO3 Downtime babble, for which I am very, very sorry. /o\ O-oops.

(Also, I don't know when invites come back into play, because they took them offline until the server issues are addressed. But once they're back, if you're still interested and don't have one already, I do know I have one available!)