AO3 is finally out of beta after 17 years

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works - the nonprofit down the fanfiction tract - announced the update connected Thursday, which comes 17 years aft AO3's motorboat successful 2009.

"Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot," the announcement says. "We've introduced galore features implicit the years done the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, arsenic good arsenic the contractors we've been capable to prosecute acknowledgment to generous donations from our users."

The station highlights immoderate of the features that AO3 has since its launch, including a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privateness settings that let …

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