"Behind the scenes" achievements

[krait]

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?

Comments

[tropicsbear]

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*

[schneefink]

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 ^^

[adrianners]

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.

[isis]

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.)

[krait]

Five pages... down from about fifteen pages! o.O

I wish AO3 made it easier to filter/view stats about my subscriptions; I'd be interested in sorting by date instead of title, to figure out which one's the oldest. It does let me filter by type; I have ~ 2 pages of series, ~1 page of authors, and ~3 pages of works.

[krait]

Hahaha, it's a very distracting task to start, definitely! Probably why it took me so long. I think I had about 15 pages of subscriptions before this, and about 17 of "marked for later," but the 'later' ones got trimmed down last year from a number somewhere in the 27-35 page range.

I'm whittling away at them!

[krait]

I didn't catch on to the Subscription feature until many years after creating my account! Actually that's true of Marked for Later and for Bookmarks, too. I figured out Bookmarks first, then a few years later the Marked for Later; Subscriptions was the last feature I started using.

I definitely had a lot of abandoned accounts and works (some had even been orphaned!) in the pile. This time I locked my sentimental side in a closet and let the ruthless side prune them down. :D The number fics started in 2012 and last updated in 2013/2014 was... significant, and they were an easy place to start in clearing things out.

Once I get these things under control, I'm going to continue working on my bookmarks - a year or so ago (maybe two or three; I'm bad at time estimates!) I got nervous about bookmarks that had been deleted, and decided I should use the Bookmark feature to its fullest by including the title and author of each work along with a brief description. It's already saved my bacon a time or two when a work was subsequently deleted! But I have, uh, 578 bookmarks... and of course, if you're going to note why you bookmarked them, you generally have to read them again as a refresher. :D