Random AO3 work generator
November 10th, 2022 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alasse_irenaThis has been floating around on Tumblr since yesterday or so, and is a pretty fun way to look at something and be like "hang on, there's fic for what now???", bearing in mind that it does turn up 404s a fair bit.
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merelydovelycopperbadge (copperbadge) had a compelling dream about an AO3 Random Work button, and sassysnowperson went ahead and made it a reality!Behold:
THE AO3 RANDOM WORK BUTTON
In Copperbadge's dream, the game was that whatever work you got indicated your new fandom assignment, but that's a bit of a steep ask. What if instead we used the random button to leave encouraging comments on random works?
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Date: November 10th, 2022 01:33 am (UTC)Though-- yeah, lots of 404s-- and that in itself is kind of fascinating to me. Obviously I don't know how exactly the things are generated, but assuming it's just a pretty-random number in between 1 and however many URLs there are... is it really te case that in the long run, more than half of fics are deleted? Why?? I mean, there are all sorts of reasons a person might delete a fic, on an individual level, but it does require a certain level of... decision-making, you know? You have to do it on purpose... and the whole point of the archive was to be a permanent home for stuff. It's a little bit disturbing to realize how much of it ends up being taken down.
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Date: November 10th, 2022 01:49 am (UTC)