gwyn: (skinny steve helmet)
[personal profile] gwyn
A while ago, when AO3 started allowing people to make their own collections, I remember something about people collecting works and then deleting the collections would make your own fic disappear, and it was suggested we set our requirements to "must ask" before adding to a collection. Which I did--I don't recall why that was an issue, or if it was ever resolved, because it wasn't something that I figured would ever affect me, but I got a request to add a fic to someone's Stucky collection recently but wasn't sure if that was a good idea or not. The FAQ info about collections is woefully outdated and doesn't include personal ones, or information about this issue.

If you allow someone else to add your fic to their collection, and then they later delete that collection, will it still delete your fic too? Or has that been fixed?

Date: 2019-02-10 09:31 pm (UTC)
astolat: lady of shalott weaving in black and white (Default)
From: [personal profile] astolat
The most annoying bits of the bug have been fixed:

https://www.ao3.org/admin_posts/12134

And it never deleted your story: the issue was that when your story gets added to an unrevealed/anonymous collection, it makes your story unrevealed/anonymous, which makes it disappear from your dashboard and only be available through the more obscure "Collected Works" link.

The annoying bug was that if the collection got deleted while still unrevealed/anon, that setting remained on your story, and sometimes even if you took it OUT of the collection. That's now fixed.

The issue has been fixed;

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