The only thing I really have to say about AO3's latest contretemps is: I toldyou so~
When a platform is so fucked up that the only way to make it run is to take out the navigation, then it's time to think real hard about who's been driving development.
So basically they decided to take a perfectly fuctional and useful system, made it more complicated, cut out the parts that made it work in the first place, replaced them with volunteers who may or may not have the information (or interest) to make useful connections in tagging and are generally treated like shit regardless, and then deal with their clusterfuck by removing basic functionality and also massively limiting people's access even though number of users isn't even the major factor?
Yeah, that about covers it, really. Oh, and didn't take the help of, like, top-ten-in-world type of experts, when it was offered. Oh, and don't forget the part about "wrote code so incredibly bad that generating a sidebar formed two thirds of the site load".
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branchandroot
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Date: 2012-06-15 07:19 pm (UTC)...Seriously?
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Date: 2012-06-15 07:27 pm (UTC)It is a clusterfuck of truly epic proportions.
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Date: 2012-06-15 07:51 pm (UTC)