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AO3
So as you may have heard, the Archive of Our Own goes into open beta tomorrow. Here's the blog entry on the subject, in case I am the first person on your flist to be pointing this out. From that very entry:I have one (1) code available to the first known-to-me (for general fannish values of "known"; thanks for that standard, Beth!) person who comments here[1] asking for it. I may have more in future, or of course the queue is open to all. I am in the (glacial, because hi, have we met?) process of moving (well, co-lodging) my stuff to the Archive, and I am a big fan of it from concept to execution, or as they say soup to nuts. So this is an endorsement and an invitation!
[1] "here" is defined in this case as this entry on Dreamwidth. I don't normally disable comments on LJ and force comments over on DW, but in this case I'm going to, as I don't want to get into who was first in the unlikely event I'm inundated with requests and the first comment on one side comes later than the first comment on the other side - or the even less likely event that such comments are made simultaneously. So if you want the AO3 invite code, please comment on Dreamwidth, which you can do even without an account (side note: I have plenty of DW invites, too!) using OpenID.
How do I get an invitation for the Archive?
You can get an invitation in two ways:
- You can add your email address to the invitation queue (opens Saturday 14th November; see world clock for the launch time in your time zone). We'll send out invitations to addresses on the queue on a first-come, first-served basis, depending on how many new accounts we can support at a given time. This way, you won't have to know someone who already has an account in order to have a chance of getting one.
- Users who have an account on the Archive will be given a certain number of invitations to hand out to their friends. We know that people like to share the fannish glee and to build their networks on new sites, and we want to give people a chance to do that. Extra invitation codes will be issued to users periodically depending on how many new users the site can manage.
[1] "here" is defined in this case as this entry on Dreamwidth. I don't normally disable comments on LJ and force comments over on DW, but in this case I'm going to, as I don't want to get into who was first in the unlikely event I'm inundated with requests and the first comment on one side comes later than the first comment on the other side - or the even less likely event that such comments are made simultaneously. So if you want the AO3 invite code, please comment on Dreamwidth, which you can do even without an account (side note: I have plenty of DW invites, too!) using OpenID.