It was great to catch up with several Gatchamaniacs last weekend on the Gatchamaniacs Gather talker One thing that was very briefly discussed was An Archive of Our Own and how the registration process is a little bit more complicated than most. Basically, AO3 says you can either apply for an 'invitation' to join or be sent an invitation by an existing member. Unfortunately, existing members are not being given the ability to send invitations right now, so that takes care of that, and it just leaves the queue. The queue is actually a lot less daunting than it sounds. To register, you just enter your e-mail address in the queue and wait to get an e-mail back. Yup. That's all you do. At the time of writing this post, there were under 7,000 people in the queue and AO3 is sending out 1,500 invitations per day. That means if you register yourself in the queue, you'll get your invitation back in less than a week. So, don't be put off by what looks like a daunting process. It's actually really simple. Why not give it a go? http://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

People keep telling me that they've shut off invite codes, but every time I request some I get some. So if anyone wants one, let me know.

Awesome. Every time I go to request invitations for other people I get a message saying they aren't issuing any right now and to use the queue, but the queue seems to be travelling pretty quickly so it's not a big problem.

When I sent my request in last year it was about 3 weeks. Remember to check on it because mine 'dropped' out. So I had to send in the request again. The second it stayed in the queue and the email arrived after a week to join. After that its been smooth sailing. Most of my readers are still on Fanfiction.net I'm slowly transferring my fics over to AO3. (I've been re-proofing earlier ones. 'Lightening' stays the same in the title, its part of the theme, play on words.) Since you can't really put explict content any more on Fanfiction.net. AO3 is better for most of the gritty stories. (I've toned down the Fanfiction.net posted ones.) I've been reading some of the Fandoms fics at A03 that I haven't seen before so there are benefits.

I'm also on AO3. Don't let the process intimidate you. It's kind of what I wanted my site to do, but couldn't get it to do. You can put in photos, add links, and other stuff, too.