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  • SlasHeaven is Moving to AO3!

    Published: Wed 25 Mar 2026 08:00PM UTC Comments: 31

    SlasHeaven, a Spanish-language slash fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

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  • Updates to "No Fandom" Additional Tags, March 2026

    Published: Mon 23 Mar 2026 04:39PM UTC Comments: 69

    AO3 Tag Wranglers continue to test processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don't belong to any particular fandom (also known as "No Fandom" tags). This post overviews some of these upcoming changes.

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  • Releases 0.9.453 - 0.9.456: Change Log

    Published: Mon 16 Mar 2026 05:13PM UTC Comments: 46

    We started the year with some major improvements to our bookmark search, making it possible to sort and filter bookmarks by word count, and deployed several batches of fixes to strengthen site security and improve performance. These release notes collect all changes made to AO3 in January.

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