Archive of Our Personal (AO3) is formally exiting beta. The Group for Transformative Works — the nonprofit behind the fanfiction website — introduced the replace on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3’s launch in 2009.
“Since 2009, AO3 has grown and adjusted rather a lot,” the announcement says. “We’ve launched many options through the years by means of the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, in addition to the contractors we’ve been capable of rent because of beneficiant donations from our customers.”
The submit highlights a number of the options that AO3 has since its launch, together with a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privateness settings that permit creators to restrict entry to their work, and extra. Simply because AO3 is exiting beta, doesn’t imply the updates will cease flowing:
Because the AO3 software program has been steady for a very long time, the change is generally beauty and doesn’t point out that all the pieces is finalized or completely working. Exiting beta doesn’t imply we’ll cease persevering with to enhance AO3—our volunteer coders and neighborhood contributors will nonetheless be working so as to add to and enhance AO3 day-after-day.
Probably the most vital modifications to the location is the absence of the tiny “beta” label contained in the AO3 emblem displayed on the high of the platform. (AO3 briefly modified the beta to “omega” for April Fools’ Day this yr).
You may preserve tabs on the updates coming to AO3 by viewing its tasks on Jira
