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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2020-09-04 09:40 pm

"Behind the scenes" achievements

This week and last I've been working on a fannish project of sorts that's strictly personal, which is tidying up my AO3 Subscriptions and 'Marked for Later' list.

After deleting a lot of completed works, fics that had been orphaned still incomplete, and many works and series that hadn't been updated since 2016 or earlier, authors who haven't posted in a fandom I recognise for years, my Subscription list is now down to 5 pages! I did leave a few probably-abandoned things in there for sentimental reasons, but it's so much more coherent and useful now.

Similarly, I cleared out page after page of things marked for later! Gone are the fics I had actually already read (sometimes I mark for later if I intend to come back and comment), and works that are probably abandoned (I often mark for later if a WIP has an interesting premise but only 1-2 chapters, as an easy way to figure out if it's going to continue and be worth reading), and things I've lost interest in for one reason or another (mostly long-running series or WIPs that had lost focus and turned into endless non-plot, or fics that now include a pairing I dislike). I'm left with a much more reasonable 7 pages of marked works, and I'm trying to read at least once a week in order to keep whittling it down.

My next project will be another round of bookmark edits, I suspect.



So.... How many subscriptions or marked-for-later works do you have?
tropicsbear: Tadashi carrying Ainosuke bridal style (Default)

[personal profile] tropicsbear 2020-09-05 06:57 am (UTC)(link)

I've got 5 pages of subscriptions. I feel like I can leave them alone for now, but my Marked for Later is at 8 pages and could probably use some cleaning up ... *pokes at pages*

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[personal profile] schneefink 2020-09-05 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Uhh... 58 pages of subscriptions, 67 pages of "marked for later", ahem. Maybe I should reduce that a little... but I always get distracted when I start trying ^^
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[personal profile] adrianners 2020-09-05 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I was terrible about using any of the subscription and bookmarking features until the last few years, and I'm still terrible about marking for later (just 4 works in there). My subs are 2 pages long, a lot of them abandoned accounts and works that I just don't want to admit aren't coming back. T_T

One of these days I'm gonna go back to older fandoms and get my faves into proper bookmarks.
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[personal profile] isis 2020-09-05 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Five pages of subscriptions?! I have...five subscriptions! :-) (Actually that's not true, I just counted: I have eight.)

However, only one is a regularly-updated WIP that I read regularly. Two of them are complete and my subscriptions are an easier way of getting marked-for-later (that, uh, I haven't actually read because I forgot about them) and the others are...well, two are probably abandoned and I might as well abandon them also, the other three I plan to read when finished, but I think I've had one notification total from them since I subscribed. (But the most recent updates are this year so I am not giving up hope yet.)