Archive of Our Own ^beta

A long, LONG time ago
back when we thought would be beautiful forever

and didn’t know that could explode (really) 

someone totally innocent was sitting in this extremely cool chair  

and in retrospect was really, like REALLY tired
(chairing is hard work). Thankfully for me

and yeah, for the , there were many beautiful who weren't quite

 so very tired thank goodness

Also thankfully for me I have a deep, passionate interest
in something called succession planning

and could think of
a few people who could totally TOTALLY

bravely take on of a through the     
2010 term

In particular
I talked to the beauteous

who did what I did
which is to say

initially thought a bit then said 'Yes'

not being Lucy P. I cannot guarantee
it was exactly
like that

I was also
asked to run for the
 
and I thought about it
then thought some more and some more
and asked the Board what they did
because it  suddenly
occurred
to me I had at all, none!

Eventually I said "No"
because I was tired
and studying in the nights
and because
the Board felt and I needed or at least   in alignment
given how things worked out for me over the next year that was absolutely the right decision
although I now regret not talking more about it because I keep
hearing stories about people feeling isolated
and I am sad I contributed
to that

We (being ) did a bunch
of coding over December 2009
much of it
to do with which taught
us a lot and gave us lots to do in 2010
lots and lots
lots

I
stood down
as chair and then I
sort of fell over
except  I hang around in chat
AD&T kindly let me keep
my access so I
keep in touch
I feel loved :)

In March 2010
The AO3 team introduced user icons
I gave the Orphan Account one so it did not get lonely

In August 2010 The Archive reached 100,000 works \o/

In September 2010 The AO3 team changed
Pairings to Relationships


and

rolled out dress ups
OMG SKINS because skins make everything
# pretty and more # accessible
# which is important

and

DOWNLOADS

I love downloads so much

 In September 2010
we celebrated it's a big deal
 

In December 2010
The AO3 team introduced
kudos

and quickly fixed the bug
where you could
kudos
yourself  

also

In December 2010

produced something
whose only code
was DNA

    oh and happened
again

In January 2011
The AO3 received new Servers

and held a naming poll / challenge which turned out to be complicated and hurtful
what with wanting to be diverse and wanting to be fair
and not quite achieving it
I like to think we’ll keep trying though
and we’ll get better at it
we learn 

In March 2011
and ongoing for many months after
  our old friend was subject to
DDOS attacks which affected performance and made
poor LJ very slooooooow
at times
this meant
many more users joining the AO3
which meant performance issues on the AO3
and lots of 'performance'
coding

In April 2011
The AO3 team introduced
Subscriptions

In September 2011
We saw how not!beautiful the many  changes were
I wish the AO3 team had a solution
but I recognise that Delicious
did a lot the AO3
doesn't 

Fandom had a passionate affair with  who wrote a lovely post about us

AND WE WROTE VAST AMOUNTS OF CODE