Comment on The past, present, and hopeful future for tags and tag wrangling on the AO3

  1. HabituallyIronic Sun 16 Dec 2012 11:57PM UTC

    I don't know if this belongs to you guys or to the filtering people, or a collaboration of both, but will there ever be a Word Count tag/filter? That's really something that I use to find fics, and just sorting them by count doesn't really help very often.

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    1. admin-emilie (Guest) Mon 17 Dec 2012 02:55AM UTC

      Hi, tag wrangling co-chair here! There is in fact a way to filter by words now - on any page of works, in the filter box, you can enter a wordcount into "Search within results" in the format words:NUMBER.

      For instance, entering:
      words:100
      will show you all works with exactly 100 words.

      You can also enter a range or greater than/less than, so
      words:10000-50000
      will show you all works between ten thousand and fifty thousand words, and
      words:

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    2. admin-emilie (Guest) Mon 17 Dec 2012 03:02AM UTC

      I'm sorry, my comment got cut off! As I was saying,
      words<1000
      will show you works under a thousand words.

      These all work in regular search as well, and if you go to Advanced Search you can see more info by clicking the help bubbles by the field names.

      If this isn't what you were hoping for, please submit a feature request to Support & Feedback (link in the footer) and we can add it to our list. Hope this helps!

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      1. HabituallyIronic Mon 17 Dec 2012 04:04AM UTC

        No, this is perfect! Thanks for answering, you guys are awesome!

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