Exchange Apps

[karanguni]

I code apps for fandom exchanges because the AO3 interface is atrocious.

Automagic App Generator

Exchanges can generate their own apps automatically via https://autoao3app.fandom.tools.

If you want to search for requests across all exchanges, use https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything.

Fun stats from the aggregated database: overall numbers and top 100 fandoms by requests

Bugs?

Please leave a comment here, stating which app/exchange, what the bug is, and steps I can take to reproduce it. It helps if you leave me your browser type, but I don't necessarily need it. Thanks! :)

Requests

If your exchange operates in a way that needs more features in the app, please leave a request here detailing what that might mean!

I currently only code standalone apps for Yuletide. If you are a mod who needs non-app code, feel free to DM me here or on Discord.

Caveats

Apologies in advance if I am slow in responding: I generally am not fandom active except around the Yuletide season. Thanks for understanding!

Known Issues

Nothing major at the moment.

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Announcements

Due to AO3 rate limiting changes as of 24 Feb 2025, scraping might be unsuccessful more often, but should still work eventually.

Comments

Re: Prompt Meme

[karanguni]

Hello, sorry! Busy season :) I will take a poke at prompt memes this week and see what I can do. If you could link me to some existing challenges and maybe highlight if there's any particular special way prompt challenges use/abuse the standard AO3 signup forms (single fandom versus multi fandom signups, for example), that would be super helpful!

Re: Prompt Meme

[janebuz_jane]

Yes, absolutely! Thank you so much for taking the time! I was looking over it yesterday with a person who is more of a programmer than I am, and we found some REALLY interesting things (some of which I suspect are bugs). There's like, a lot to list here, so I've put it in a document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VFvS3dDnWpJQ_o2dPaISBZmArTLh0ebag9hpUMykauI/edit?usp=sharing!

What I had in mind was each prompt writing to a cloud database (Airtable, w/e) that is then searchable by fields like "Title," "Author," "Date," "Additional Tags," (labeled as "Freeform Tags" in the page source), "Optional Tags," "Relationships," "Characters," "Ratings," "Categories," "Archive Warnings..." You get it.

Since Prompt Memes offer no search capability at all, this would be a great tool for future use! But I totally understand if it's too much to tackle right now. Thank you so much in advance for your time and consideration!

Re: Prompt Meme

[karanguni]

I'll take a look at the doc after work! I think I'm most interested by what you'd like them to be grouped by. Fundamentally the app always groups by something: that's the fandom at the moment, though the backlog of things I want to try would be to allow people to configure them. What works well for prompt memes?

Re: Prompt Meme

[janebuz_jane]

That makes sense! For multi-fandom prompts, I'd imagine sorting by Fandom would be easiest. For single-fandom prompts... hmm, probably Relationships? Just in terms of thinking how people like to find things, when the fandom is the same! (I've also added that to the doc!)

Re: Prompt Meme

[karanguni]

(Sorry, been busy season! I have not forgotten this!)

Re: Prompt Meme

[janebuz_jane]

No worries at all! I appreciate you taking the time at all! ^-^