So as far as I understood (I come from Wattpad) Hits are views Kudos are votes/likes Bookmarks are libraries/playlists Words and chapters are the same And tags are the same as well
wattpad was easy to figure out, tumblr was a tiny bit difficult but I managed, but AO3... oh god. they make it so complicated for new users 😭😭 you're a lifesaver, thank you so much !!
getting into archive of our own was the weirdest thing for me because i refused to look up how it worked and i figured it all out by myself, then watched a video on it like a year later and learned even more its still quite an accomplishment for me to have understood it on my own tho, like i figured out the weird website because wattpad was too orange, im not kidding i read shit on wattpad for like a month before i got so sick of the colour scheme and the way people wrote and that i could barely find things i like that i moved to ao3, wonderful decision on my part
@@Out.ofpocket1 well i'm not too sure, what is the problem your having with ao3? i may have come across it myself but can't really help unless i have more information :)
@@Out.ofpocket1same!! I'm trying to figure out how to read the chapters bcs after I search something and I don't know how to use this, tried clicking diff areas on the screen multiple times still can't figure it out ( just started figuring out how to use this 5 mins ago) Edit: I'm so dumb- 💀 I was supposed to click On the title...
I actually hate wattpads formatting on mobile, so I stopped reading fanfiction on it lol- also it is harder to find good fanfiction, but it is where I started reading and writing fanfic so it'll always be close to my heart-
Top Priority after this finals season: finally get my AO3 account on track and bookmark all the good fanfics I've come across but was too lazy to log in for
As a brazillian teenager, Im glad I learned english. The spirit and wattpad fanfics that are in portuguese are not enough, I NEEDED TO LEARN HOW TO USE AO3. Thank you, so much.
WHY DIDN’T I SEE THIS EARLIER! This would have saved me so many months trying to find good fanfics on Wattpad before finally registering on AO3 even if it didn’t look all that organized
I NEEDED THIS SOOOO MUCH THANK YOU!!! ONE OF MY ONLINE FRIENDS WHO ALSO READS FANFICTION RECCOMENDED ME TO GO TO AO3 BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW IT WORKED FOR THE *LIFE* OF ME IM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS, THANK YOUUUUUU😭
…did you roll your mouse over AO3’s many question marks (which explain how various features work) or check out their extensive Q&A/FAQ section? A lot of questions are answered there
*Good summary!* ❤ One thing though: sorting by Kudos is misleading: if you have one story with 1000 and one with 500, then the 1000 will come up first. Now posit that the first story has 100000 Hits and the second 1000. These give ratios of 1000 Kudos / 100000 Hits on the first and 500 / 1000 for the second -- i.e.: 1% rate even with more Kudos vs. 50% even with fewer. Worse, a good smut-fic might get low Kudos/Hits ratio because nobody wants their name on it, and a poorly written non-smut a higher ratio for any number of reasons. 😃
A good kudos ratio is basically just a guarantee that a work is a really good, not too smutty one shot. Long running stories are gonna rack up higher view counts just from people coming back to read the story multiple times, but only ever having 1 kudos to give. Not to mention there is a bit of fandom-dependecy for how kudos-heavy the readership for a particular story is in the first place. I find that an ~5% is a good rough kudos/views ratio, as its pretty easy math to do in your head (move the decimal, then half). Of course, if a story is only a little below that I’ll still give it a shot, that math is more just to see if a story is well off balance for kudos.
@@PineappleLiar Except for the guarantee of it being good (since some people re-read things), yup, that's about the same conclusion as I came to. The average background rate for a typical story (after having some time to stabilize) seems to be ~3-4%, so a 5% ratio is _probably_ a decent fic (with the usual exceptions of some having higher ratios but lower quality, or lower ratios and higher quality, of course). The variance is too wide for me to rely on it, but that just means that I might run into some fun fics that deserve more kudos (and there's always the back button). 🙂
@@PineappleLiarhey can you help me find a story... I read that years ago... Its about people who live in sky and underground... Its also love triangle
Thank you so much i really was having a headache trying to figure out how to understand ao3 but it’s so complex especially since i come from wattpad where everything is just right there for you.
i’ve always used wattpad since like- maybe the beginning of Covid? Anyway i wanted to start using other websites/apps and i have! But Ao3 is so confusing to me- so this helped a lot! Thank youuu
The only annoying thing about exclusion filters is not everyone tags constantly. I have to exclude A/B/O, Omegaverse, and Alpha Beta dynamics and I still get ABO stuff.
Yo this is a lifesaver for me! Recently migrated from FFN and tbh I prefer their UI a lot more, it's more simple and timeless ig and works aren't flooded with irrelevant tags and what not.
thank you so much!! I wanted to get into reading fanfic on ao3 but i was soo confused at first. I'm also easily triggered by some things so I was too scared to mess about and learn by trial and error. again, tysm!!
thanks so much for this, I've been on quotev for the longest time because I just couldn't *bear* to leave it I grew up with it but I'm so excited to finally get into (from what I've heard) the best place for fics!!
Thank u sm. I used to read ff on wattpad for years, but it really went downhill with premium and stuff a few years ago, so i stopped reading ff. I recently remembered the good old days and i want to get into ffs again, but wattpad sucks, so i came across ao3, but i literally couldn't really find anything that good, because it was so confusing. I'll definitely try those tips :)
just started reading fanfic and read a 450k word fic in like 4 days but... i didnt actually read it on site, i downloaded it to epub (after seeing the dowload button) and read it on my kindle still have no idea how to actually see and search the site (which is why im here!) so thanks :D
Thank you for this video omg😭 English is not my first language and I didn't know how ao3 worked for a long time and I figured out a few things myself but I didnt know about the whole bookmark section till now 😭 so thank you
Thank you so much for explaining ao3, I will start with reading fanfics on it now I think but when I first got my account it looked so complicated and too difficult for my brain but thanks
when i forst looked up ao3 i was like what am i on the right website 😭 everything looked so complicated like what were kudos and bla bla but ur vid rlly helped me!! ao3 💯 % has the best fics put there
I tried to get into it a few months ago but only a few works would come up instead of thousands even tho Ik for a fact it was a popular fan base ;-; THANK YOU
i wish i knew about this years ago. i just jumped head first and struggled for a year, but now my account is all neat and tidy which shouldn't really be a flex, but it's the only thing I'm proud of
Thank you for this, I'm a Wattpad we are through and through, but sometimes I go through all the hashtags and still don't find what I want, AO3 is a bigger platform, so I have had a hopes. My best friend is over it, and when I was getting 25. Which one's better oh, she tried to tell me how to use it but she just kept rambling oh, so I turned to RUclips
Ty so much!! English isn't my native language but I'd like to read something beside fanfics on my own language, so I joined ao3. But there are so many buttons and I didn't know where to start 😭 You helped me a lot!
THANK U FOR THE HELP i kept tryna find good soukoku fics but the search system always told no searches found 😔 i would have to search up names😂 you have really helped me thank you ❤
I’ve used that page like 4 times in the last 7 years and I used it in times I loved a series so much and a couple so fcking much that I had the physical NEED to read something about them but I always stopped Anyway, now i just watched the dumpster battle and after it I just needed some good KenHina fics So for me not to be stopped im here how to learn THE ao3 🙏🏽
the thing is my search bar history on AO3 keeps showing up and I cannot delete it so I have to see my 13 year old self's " ShrekXReader, Obama XReader" search everytime I open Archive. HOW DO I DELETE THEM oh god
Yep, you can! Scroll down to the bottom, where you’ll see “customize”. Press “choose skin”, a menu will show up. Reverso is basically dark mode, so that’s the thing you’ll need to click on.
yes! I ended up making a custom skin with a dark gray background and sepia writing, So much nicer on my eyes in the evening. If you don't want to mess around with simple coding, you can just chose a different skin from the huge list of pre made ones.
I never search for kudos because then you'll never see the newer stuff. Nothing wrong with reading the best though, I just want to appreciate the under dogs too (like myself😅)
I think I have an issue with my ao3 Eversince I made an account, it would take ages to load something. I would type "name/reader" or something and it would take more than one mintues even though my wifi is completely okay(I can open other stuff other than ao3 and it loads in less than a few seconds) and using mobile data doesn't work either. This has been going on eversince I made an account. I tried deleting my account but it didn't worked! Is there a way to solve this issue?? :(
Does anyone know if you can filter out works you’ve already read? If you are logged in of course. Or filter out works you’ve already bookmarked or left Kudos on.
@@siriusbIack yes sadly it seems not to be a feature at the moment. What I have started doing is if I think I might have read a fic before, try leaving kudos before I start reading. Also, I bookmark fics once I have completely finished them!
Fantastic video! Thank you :) By the way, I'm super curious. What is the origin of your accent? It's lovely. It almost sounds Irish. But you did mention something about English words, so perhaps you aren't from an English speaking country. Either that, or you grew up speaking Gaelic. I'm usually great with accents, but yours is an intriguing mystery. Let me know! :D
@@arthoefmann Oh wow! I was close. Lol. Central Europe did cross my mind as a possibility. I should've mentioned it, haha. Also, you looked very cute. :)
As someone who uses Ao3 and not tumblr. wtf is even up with tumblr i have never understood what i was doing how i could find posts save them or I couldn't see any continuity whatsoever. I didn't look up how to use Ao3 because if you are just minimally interested you can figure it out. But tumblr? man that shit is messed up.
As much as I like the app, it sucks that I have two wait for like what, AUGUST 31?!?, HOW IS IT SO LOOOOONNNGGG, welp gonna just stick with Wattpad until it gives me an email TWT
Hi, maybe someone will help me with my question... I like fanfiction but at first i came to it playing text role games... but i wanna play specific fandoms and characters, rare fandoms (musicians of 80's..etc) and there is a question: WHERE/HOW CAN I FIND A PERSON TO PLAY SPECIFIC FANDOMS??? i try to FIND the way, sites, people, but i just see absolutely no way... 😢 it is saaad... please anyone can help me??
to answer you ; i read ABO and id say thats for two reasons. 1: idk just,, p0rn wih plot ig ? 2: i like the whole magical type of element but i dont like reading magical stories in which i dont understand how it works prior. Its the same as why id read like a vampire au or something. (except again, its still normally a p0rn with plot lmao i have no shame in that)
9:08 I've been using this website for so long but have no idea how to actually fully use it. But with the squares, what does the bottom left one ment to mean. I read on a phone and all I can see Is a bunch of "!" and "!?". That's the only thing I don't understand- otherwise this video was extremely helpful!
Those represent the content warnings A question and a exclamation mark means The author chose not to warn for content, or Archive Warnings could apply, but the author has chosen not to specify them. An exclamation mark only means At least one of these warnings applies: graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con, underage sex. The specific warnings are shown in the Archive Warnings tags. A blank square means The work was not marked with any Archive Warnings. Please note that an author may have included other information about their work in the Additional Tags (Genre, Warnings, Other Information) section. A blue globe means This is an external work; please consult the work itself for warnings You can click on the box and it shows you this information plus the meaning of the other squares
I used wattpad for my reading but good stories was getting harder and harder to find so I thought maybe ao3 would help oh my god it is so hard to figure out how to use it without any help ur a life saver 😭😭
well you can filter only the fandoms that you like, that way you don't come across those you don't like. otherwise exclude the fandom tag in the exclude tag list :D
you can filter out stuff, but I don't think you can make it a default. If you are in a fandome tag and don't want a specific crossover or pairing go to filters, then go to the exlude section, and add the thing you don't want to see in the 'other tags to exlude' text box. But you have to re apply those filter parameters each time you look threw the fandome tag.
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I answered more questions over here: ruclips.net/video/0CnBW9cRbH4/видео.html ✨🙏
So as far as I understood (I come from Wattpad)
Hits are views
Kudos are votes/likes
Bookmarks are libraries/playlists
Words and chapters are the same
And tags are the same as well
thank you omg 😭 this is so helpful thank you love
Same I’m a Wattpad user and this was rlly useful 😭
200words no 200 chapters yes
200words no 200 chapters yes
I have used Ao3 for over six months now comfortably but I never knew what hits meant, and I never bothered to search it up. Thanks for telling me bro.
wattpad was easy to figure out, tumblr was a tiny bit difficult but I managed, but AO3... oh god. they make it so complicated for new users 😭😭 you're a lifesaver, thank you so much !!
i had to wait so long to get my acc hshshsjjs
@@ITastedDeathItself My page glitched and it told me it'd be over a year for me to make my account lmao
@@auggiemain they did you so dirty like that nahhh 💀
@@auggiemain NAWW THEY TOLD ME THAT TOO BUT IN REALITY IT TOOK LESS THAN 5 MONTHS
@@mochiyhx it only took like a month or two for me idk what happened tbh 💀💀
getting into archive of our own was the weirdest thing for me because i refused to look up how it worked and i figured it all out by myself, then watched a video on it like a year later and learned even more its still quite an accomplishment for me to have understood it on my own tho, like i figured out the weird website because wattpad was too orange, im not kidding i read shit on wattpad for like a month before i got so sick of the colour scheme and the way people wrote and that i could barely find things i like that i moved to ao3, wonderful decision on my part
Truly wonderful decision Shmeep Shmoop
how do I read chapters on the website on pc I don't know I'm new to fanfictions and websites like these
@@Out.ofpocket1 well i'm not too sure, what is the problem your having with ao3? i may have come across it myself but can't really help unless i have more information :)
@@Out.ofpocket1same!! I'm trying to figure out how to read the chapters bcs after I search something and I don't know how to use this, tried clicking diff areas on the screen multiple times still can't figure it out ( just started figuring out how to use this 5 mins ago)
Edit: I'm so dumb- 💀
I was supposed to click
On the title...
I actually hate wattpads formatting on mobile, so I stopped reading fanfiction on it lol- also it is harder to find good fanfiction, but it is where I started reading and writing fanfic so it'll always be close to my heart-
Top Priority after this finals season: finally get my AO3 account on track and bookmark all the good fanfics I've come across but was too lazy to log in for
Hey can you help me find a story on ao3
@@HakunaMatata-gr9mmTbh you just have to put in the tags and theres almost always smth
@@sarahayat4364 I did the tag thing but I couldn't find it
As a brazillian teenager, Im glad I learned english. The spirit and wattpad fanfics that are in portuguese are not enough, I NEEDED TO LEARN HOW TO USE AO3.
Thank you, so much.
I was you years ago lol
Just stay away from the rly dark stuff, stay in the ligth
WHY DIDN’T I SEE THIS EARLIER! This would have saved me so many months trying to find good fanfics on Wattpad before finally registering on AO3 even if it didn’t look all that organized
video starts at 2:32 :D
Thx
Kudo to you
I hope your pillows are cold on both sides
“Carefully. He’s a hero.”
@@yaboihuey5298 Careful*
i agree, ao3 is uNMATCHED (also I love your hair!!)
Ahh thank you so much :DD and yes AO3 supremacy XD
Me who uses wattpad: o-o
i always read my ff on wattpad tbh 😭
but i really wanna try ao3 cause i feel like it’s more diverse especially in the field i’m in (aka kpop lol)
I used to read from Wattpad but now i hardly read from it , ao3 is best
same !
How do you get AO3- do you search up or something??
@@trish938 yep!
Yes! Very true. AO3 has a VERY wide variety when it comes to fanfics! I say both apps are great in their own way.
I NEEDED THIS SOOOO MUCH THANK YOU!!! ONE OF MY ONLINE FRIENDS WHO ALSO READS FANFICTION RECCOMENDED ME TO GO TO AO3 BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW IT WORKED FOR THE *LIFE* OF ME IM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS, THANK YOUUUUUU😭
…did you roll your mouse over AO3’s many question marks (which explain how various features work) or check out their extensive Q&A/FAQ section? A lot of questions are answered there
*Good summary!* ❤ One thing though: sorting by Kudos is misleading: if you have one story with 1000 and one with 500, then the 1000 will come up first. Now posit that the first story has 100000 Hits and the second 1000. These give ratios of 1000 Kudos / 100000 Hits on the first and 500 / 1000 for the second -- i.e.: 1% rate even with more Kudos vs. 50% even with fewer. Worse, a good smut-fic might get low Kudos/Hits ratio because nobody wants their name on it, and a poorly written non-smut a higher ratio for any number of reasons. 😃
A good kudos ratio is basically just a guarantee that a work is a really good, not too smutty one shot. Long running stories are gonna rack up higher view counts just from people coming back to read the story multiple times, but only ever having 1 kudos to give. Not to mention there is a bit of fandom-dependecy for how kudos-heavy the readership for a particular story is in the first place. I find that an ~5% is a good rough kudos/views ratio, as its pretty easy math to do in your head (move the decimal, then half). Of course, if a story is only a little below that I’ll still give it a shot, that math is more just to see if a story is well off balance for kudos.
@@PineappleLiar Except for the guarantee of it being good (since some people re-read things), yup, that's about the same conclusion as I came to. The average background rate for a typical story (after having some time to stabilize) seems to be ~3-4%, so a 5% ratio is _probably_ a decent fic (with the usual exceptions of some having higher ratios but lower quality, or lower ratios and higher quality, of course). The variance is too wide for me to rely on it, but that just means that I might run into some fun fics that deserve more kudos (and there's always the back button). 🙂
@@PineappleLiarhey can you help me find a story... I read that years ago... Its about people who live in sky and underground... Its also love triangle
@@HakunaMatata-gr9mmgive more detail
Thank you so much i really was having a headache trying to figure out how to understand ao3 but it’s so complex especially since i come from wattpad where everything is just right there for you.
i’ve always used wattpad since like- maybe the beginning of Covid? Anyway i wanted to start using other websites/apps and i have! But Ao3 is so confusing to me- so this helped a lot! Thank youuu
thank you. i feel like the things is there but too overwhelmed. now i shall thrive in the world of fanfiction HAHAHAHA- ahem. :)
I’m finally transitioning over as a fix writer from Wattpad to AO3! I’m excited
👏👏👏
The only annoying thing about exclusion filters is not everyone tags constantly. I have to exclude A/B/O, Omegaverse, and Alpha Beta dynamics and I still get ABO stuff.
Thats when i block "omega*character name*" looooool
I'm more a writer than a reader on AO3 myself... I absolutely love it!
Watching this as if I haven’t been reading ao3 since I was 15
When i looked at ao3 for the first time it looked like coding but thank you so much bestie you are getting a subscribe from me :))
Yo this is a lifesaver for me! Recently migrated from FFN and tbh I prefer their UI a lot more, it's more simple and timeless ig and works aren't flooded with irrelevant tags and what not.
thank you so much!! I wanted to get into reading fanfic on ao3 but i was soo confused at first. I'm also easily triggered by some things so I was too scared to mess about and learn by trial and error. again, tysm!!
Same😂
thanks so much for this, I've been on quotev for the longest time because I just couldn't *bear* to leave it I grew up with it but I'm so excited to finally get into (from what I've heard) the best place for fics!!
ACKKK THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING THIS GUIDE ASDFHJ 😭💓 I was totally lost when I got my account, you're a great help!!! ❤️
Thank u sm.
I used to read ff on wattpad for years, but it really went downhill with premium and stuff a few years ago, so i stopped reading ff.
I recently remembered the good old days and i want to get into ffs again, but wattpad sucks, so i came across ao3, but i literally couldn't really find anything that good, because it was so confusing.
I'll definitely try those tips :)
This was helpful, lol just got into AO3 account wise but have used it for a while now. I love your energy :D
just started reading fanfic and read a 450k word fic in like 4 days
but... i didnt actually read it on site, i downloaded it to epub (after seeing the dowload button) and read it on my kindle
still have no idea how to actually see and search the site (which is why im here!)
so thanks :D
ive never used ao3 and the first time i heard abt it was from the stww thing so i was a little scared of it for a while but i think ill try it out
Thank you! I couldn't figure out how to find where the filter button was, (mobile) but this really helped me understand it.
Bold of you to make this video. Much appreciated.
Thank you for this video omg😭 English is not my first language and I didn't know how ao3 worked for a long time and I figured out a few things myself but I didnt know about the whole bookmark section till now 😭 so thank you
Queen this was SO helpful, thank you!!!!
it was so hard to try to figure AO3 out your a literal life saver !!!
I joined ao3 last year in like idk maybe September and hadn't used it cause it was scary thank you so much!
Thank you so much for explaining ao3, I will start with reading fanfics on it now I think but when I first got my account it looked so complicated and too difficult for my brain but thanks
I finally got my account! I’ve been browsing ao3 without an account for two weeks and finally that will change
I’ve been using ao3 without and account for 4 years
@@rebeccaboyer9924 wow- I just prefer things with accounts
@@rebeccaboyer9924 and here i thought 6 months was long
*my mum banned fan fiction guys I hate her*
@@Orbitingaster were you reading anything spicy?? Ó╭╮Ò
That's just sad
I needed this so much! Thank you for sharing it really help me a lot😀
when i forst looked up ao3 i was like what am i on the right website 😭 everything looked so complicated like what were kudos and bla bla but ur vid rlly helped me!! ao3 💯 % has the best fics put there
I tried to get into it a few months ago but only a few works would come up instead of thousands even tho Ik for a fact it was a popular fan base ;-; THANK YOU
Ty for telling people to look at the tags. That would’ve helped me
Awesome video! Super helpful as I'm trying to decide if I should post my stories to Archive of Our Own! thanks!
Your accent pronouncing mature “macher” IS SO CUTE AND FANCY
thanks so much also i find your voice very soothing like i love it so much
This may be 2 years old but DEAR GOD ur voice omg its like so lovely
wow thank you so much for this kind comment!
Not I’ve been on ao3 for so long just never understood anything. Just read, liked and commented. Now you explained THABK YOU AH
I love reading long fanfictions but it always makes me cry in the end, cuz It ends!!! 😭😭
you are a life saver
Hey. Can you explain how to manage bookmarks? I made myself some collections, but need some explanation for how to use it.
i genuinely don't get why ppl find ao3 so difficult to use, i picked it up rlly easily but i think that's just me
i wish i knew about this years ago. i just jumped head first and struggled for a year, but now my account is all neat and tidy which shouldn't really be a flex, but it's the only thing I'm proud of
Thank you for this, I'm a Wattpad we are through and through, but sometimes I go through all the hashtags and still don't find what I want, AO3 is a bigger platform, so I have had a hopes. My best friend is over it, and when I was getting 25. Which one's better oh, she tried to tell me how to use it but she just kept rambling oh, so I turned to RUclips
Thank you so much for your help 🤗
I had no clue how to navigate ao3.
You helped a lot✨😊✨
it took me over 4 weeks to take an invitation letter, but it definitely worth it
Ty so much!! English isn't my native language but I'd like to read something beside fanfics on my own language, so I joined ao3. But there are so many buttons and I didn't know where to start 😭 You helped me a lot!
THANK U FOR THE HELP i kept tryna find good soukoku fics but the search system always told no searches found 😔 i would have to search up names😂 you have really helped me thank you ❤
guys.. does anyone know how to fix a session expired or auth error? I cant post anything anymore bc of it I even cleared my cache!
There is a Coley video of the abo universe, very descriptive
You're so pretty🎀 and thanks for the video! So informative n to the point! Although I knew most of the stuff still I watched It all:p
Thank you sweetie, you made this so much more clear for me.
Literally thank you for making this video i had no idea how to use ao3 🤗
I have this problem, the ‘next chapter’ button just don’t appear in the fanfiction I’m reading? Can any one help???plz
the button is either at the bottom of your chapter or at the top normally !
or maybe it doesn't appear because you clicked on "all the work" so the chapter follow each other ?
@@_Mehou_ I'll check! Thank you sm!!!
it 100% is hard too get into but like it soooo easy so easy after you get it!! also the authors there always really sweet people!!
I’ve used that page like 4 times in the last 7 years and I used it in times I loved a series so much and a couple so fcking much that I had the physical NEED to read something about them but I always stopped
Anyway, now i just watched the dumpster battle and after it I just needed some good KenHina fics
So for me not to be stopped im here how to learn THE ao3 🙏🏽
From wattpad.Sometimes its hard to find some tags on other websites and came across Ao3. Felt like rocket science and damn...😂
THANK YOU SO MUCH. FINALLY I UNDERSTAND
the thing is my search bar history on AO3 keeps showing up and I cannot delete it so I have to see my 13 year old self's " ShrekXReader, Obama XReader" search everytime I open Archive. HOW DO I DELETE THEM oh god
Im concerned about both shrek and Obama like what where u into 😯
Make 'em an orphan account.
That should remove them from your account, and you won't be able to edit the story/have your user on it.
this was helpful, thank you
Someone please help me I was reading a story on AO3 and there was a picture in it but I can't download it or see it what to do😭😭😭
I just saw TheBonesandTheBees and I easily learnt from there, so weird to not use the search bar lol
Can we change it somehow into dark mode??? I like reading fan fiction at night and it's literally going to burn my eyes.
Yep, you can! Scroll down to the bottom, where you’ll see “customize”. Press “choose skin”, a menu will show up. Reverso is basically dark mode, so that’s the thing you’ll need to click on.
yes! I ended up making a custom skin with a dark gray background and sepia writing, So much nicer on my eyes in the evening.
If you don't want to mess around with simple coding, you can just chose a different skin from the huge list of pre made ones.
Best place to read, but worst place to sign up😭😭
I never search for kudos because then you'll never see the newer stuff. Nothing wrong with reading the best though, I just want to appreciate the under dogs too (like myself😅)
Thank you for this guide! I've had an account since last year and tried to post some fanfics but I couldn't figure out what is what 😅
THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH OMG
QUESTION FOR JO-JO WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE FAVORITE DANCE TEACHER AND WHY!
I think I have an issue with my ao3
Eversince I made an account, it would take ages to load something. I would type "name/reader" or something and it would take more than one mintues even though my wifi is completely okay(I can open other stuff other than ao3 and it loads in less than a few seconds) and using mobile data doesn't work either. This has been going on eversince I made an account. I tried deleting my account but it didn't worked! Is there a way to solve this issue?? :(
Really Helpful❤
I just made an account, I posted 4 chapters but for some reason, i can't click past first chapter when I'm not logged in.
check if your account is locked, some fics cant be viewed due to the accounts being locked and only exclusive to logged in people
Does anyone know if you can filter out works you’ve already read? If you are logged in of course. Or filter out works you’ve already bookmarked or left Kudos on.
i dont think u can
@@siriusbIack yes sadly it seems not to be a feature at the moment. What I have started doing is if I think I might have read a fic before, try leaving kudos before I start reading. Also, I bookmark fics once I have completely finished them!
Fantastic video! Thank you :)
By the way, I'm super curious. What is the origin of your accent? It's lovely.
It almost sounds Irish. But you did mention something about English words,
so perhaps you aren't from an English speaking country.
Either that, or you grew up speaking Gaelic.
I'm usually great with accents, but yours is an intriguing mystery. Let me know! :D
Ahh thanks! And yes I lived in Ireland for some time but am originally from Germany and English is my second language so that's why it's a weird mix
@@arthoefmann Oh wow! I was close. Lol. Central Europe did cross my mind as a possibility. I should've mentioned it, haha.
Also, you looked very cute. :)
how do you read on archive of our own though? it just shows up on me and i cant actually read it
I just want to add that a fic can be rated 'mature' for other reasons too, it might handle some really heavy topics or a lot of swearing and such.
I am embarrassed to say that I had to look up how to use this website... lol
Good video!
SHE'S BACK BOYSSS YOOOO
As someone who uses Ao3 and not tumblr. wtf is even up with tumblr i have never understood what i was doing how i could find posts save them or I couldn't see any continuity whatsoever. I didn't look up how to use Ao3 because if you are just minimally interested you can figure it out. But tumblr? man that shit is messed up.
i don't know where to click to save my fanfic progress, it always comes back to chapter 1 and i forgot where i was
Save as a bookmark, and write yourself a note in the tags. somthing like 'halfway done chapter 8'.
As much as I like the app, it sucks that I have two wait for like what, AUGUST 31?!?, HOW IS IT SO LOOOOONNNGGG, welp gonna just stick with Wattpad until it gives me an email TWT
How to open that fukkking fan fiction please I'm clicking on the one I want to read but it's not opening
4 months late, but for anyone still wondering- click on the title
Hi, maybe someone will help me with my question... I like fanfiction but at first i came to it playing text role games... but i wanna play specific fandoms and characters, rare fandoms (musicians of 80's..etc) and there is a question: WHERE/HOW CAN I FIND A PERSON TO PLAY SPECIFIC FANDOMS???
i try to FIND the way, sites, people, but i just see absolutely no way... 😢 it is saaad...
please anyone can help me??
starts at 2:33
I usually just click on search then go to filter search. Put in a fandom, a character or a ship and then start to filter
Oh my god this video is a life saver fr
Can someone explain what is actually angst? Like is it what I call emotional rollercoaster? 😩😩
this helped me so much
to answer you ; i read ABO and id say thats for two reasons. 1: idk just,, p0rn wih plot ig ? 2: i like the whole magical type of element but i dont like reading magical stories in which i dont understand how it works prior. Its the same as why id read like a vampire au or something. (except again, its still normally a p0rn with plot lmao i have no shame in that)
Did someone else have this "Unable to establish a connection to the site"?
DOES THAT MEAN THE END OF READING THERE NOW OR SOMETHING?
9:08
I've been using this website for so long but have no idea how to actually fully use it.
But with the squares, what does the bottom left one ment to mean. I read on a phone and all I can see Is a bunch of "!" and "!?".
That's the only thing I don't understand- otherwise this video was extremely helpful!
Those represent the content warnings
A question and a exclamation mark means
The author chose not to warn for content, or Archive Warnings could apply, but the author has chosen not to specify them.
An exclamation mark only means
At least one of these warnings applies: graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con, underage sex. The specific warnings are shown in the Archive Warnings tags.
A blank square means
The work was not marked with any Archive Warnings. Please note that an author may have included other information about their work in the Additional Tags (Genre, Warnings, Other Information) section.
A blue globe means
This is an external work; please consult the work itself for warnings
You can click on the box and it shows you this information plus the meaning of the other squares
WHERE WAS RHIS WHEN I NEEDED IT??! My sister just told me what the symbols meant and left me to figure everything else out
I used wattpad for my reading but good stories was getting harder and harder to find so I thought maybe ao3 would help oh my god it is so hard to figure out how to use it without any help ur a life saver 😭😭
Ok but the main reason I watched this video was because I don't even know how to READ THE FANFIC! WHERE DO I PRESS TO START READING
click the title, lol
Do you know if it's possible to block fandoms by default?
well you can filter only the fandoms that you like, that way you don't come across those you don't like. otherwise exclude the fandom tag in the exclude tag list :D
you can filter out stuff, but I don't think you can make it a default. If you are in a fandome tag and don't want a specific crossover or pairing go to filters, then go to the exlude section, and add the thing you don't want to see in the 'other tags to exlude' text box. But you have to re apply those filter parameters each time you look threw the fandome tag.