An Archive of Our Own
Saturday, 18 October 2008 21:10![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zviSo, the next new feature noticeable to users that the Archive has is the ability to adjust dates, for which I say, thank fucking god. I had some embarrassing shit that was coming up first on my profile, because I had uploaded it last. Now you can tell that my last completely shitty story was from 2005.
Hilariously (well, okay, probably not that funny, more mildly amusing), while I was scrolling back through my LJ and stuff to get the best dates I could for all of this fiction, I found another seven stories to add to my account. A couple of them are questionable on the 'story' front ... more like writing exercises that contain a very good idea, but some of them were legit stories that I just never del.icio.us'd, and since I was using del.icio.us to get the list of stories to upload, well….
Heads up to those who previously uploaded fic: the archive will now, under some circumstances, treat a single hard-return as a linebreak, even if you have <p> tags. This unfortunately means that some stories uploaded in the initial rush have really weird formatting. The fix (ETA if you have your paragraphs surrounded by <p> </p>) is very simple: edit the story, and click the rich text editor. Then preview/save. Extraneous line breaks should be removed.
Anyway, the archive is very cool and getting even better. So please donate to the Organization, because it's your donations that keep the servers running.
And if you don't have cash, but you do have time, volunteer for a committee. Systems especially is looking for people, and Content is shaping archive policy. Communications is a new committee, so you would be able to help shape how that committee is going to work with others.
Hilariously (well, okay, probably not that funny, more mildly amusing), while I was scrolling back through my LJ and stuff to get the best dates I could for all of this fiction, I found another seven stories to add to my account. A couple of them are questionable on the 'story' front ... more like writing exercises that contain a very good idea, but some of them were legit stories that I just never del.icio.us'd, and since I was using del.icio.us to get the list of stories to upload, well….
Heads up to those who previously uploaded fic: the archive will now, under some circumstances, treat a single hard-return as a linebreak, even if you have <p> tags. This unfortunately means that some stories uploaded in the initial rush have really weird formatting. The fix (ETA if you have your paragraphs surrounded by <p> </p>) is very simple: edit the story, and click the rich text editor. Then preview/save. Extraneous line breaks should be removed.
Anyway, the archive is very cool and getting even better. So please donate to the Organization, because it's your donations that keep the servers running.
And if you don't have cash, but you do have time, volunteer for a committee. Systems especially is looking for people, and Content is shaping archive policy. Communications is a new committee, so you would be able to help shape how that committee is going to work with others.