A guide to Archive of our own

Doesn't post for month - makes a beginners guide to Ao3 video XD. This video will teach you how to read and filter fanfiction on the platform (hopefully)
Yayy so anyway editing is my mental health escape time i missed it so much. Hope you enjoy this very simple guide to Archieve of our own, the greates fanfiction platform ever. I filmed this like a month ago but it took me so long to edit because i honestly never make time for it. ANYAY
Hope you have more time then me to enjoy quality ff and this video. Thanks so much for watching in advance, I appreciate it :D

HUGS;
Hani

[leeisamess.]

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

[dogonmainstreethowling]

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 !!

[shmeepshmoop]

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

[jamie-lnur]

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

[_lumen_]

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

[fatimaumar]

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

[charlesrockafellor]

*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 Hits and the second 1000. These give ratios of 1000 Kudos / 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. 😃

[lara-ftrj]

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)

[dragonwaz]

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.

[yopichu]

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.

[lanajordan]

I’m finally transitioning over as a fix writer from Wattpad to AO3! I’m excited

[elliesdigitaljournal]

i agree, ao3 is uNMATCHED (also I love your hair!!)

[jolena]

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

[lizgudino]

I'm more a writer than a reader on AO3 myself... I absolutely love it!

[zenruhqe]

thank you. i feel like the things is there but too overwhelmed. now i shall thrive in the world of fanfiction HAHAHAHA- ahem. :)

[AsfuPoetra]

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.

[erikalyzacarino]

ACKKK THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREATING THIS GUIDE ASDFHJ 😭💓 I was totally lost when I got my account, you're a great help!!! ❤️

[norm]

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.

[Jjbllz]

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 :))

[Haunted_Plush]

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!!