Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works โ the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site โ announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3โs launch in 2009.
โSince 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot,โ the announcement says. โWeโve introduced many features over the years through the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, as well as the contractors weโve been able to hire thanks to generous donations from our users.โ
The post highlights some of the features that AO3 has since its launch, including a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privacy settings that allow creators to limit access to their work, and more. Just because AO3 is exiting beta, doesnโt mean the updates will stop flowing:
As the AO3 software has been stable for a long time, the change is mostly cosmetic and does not indicate that everything is finalized or perfectly working. Exiting beta doesnโt mean weโll stop continuing to improve AO3โour volunteer coders and community contributors will still be working to add to and improve AO3 every day.
One of the most significant changes to the site is the absence of the tiny โbetaโ label inside the AO3 logo displayed at the top of the platform. (AO3 briefly changed the beta to โomegaโ for April Foolsโ Day this year).
You can keep tabs on the updates coming to AO3 by viewing its projects on Jira
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