We'll just have to disagree on out assessment of the development. Polishing the text-based side of the archive to perfection before even *starting to discuss the requirements for other works* and putting bells and whistles on the features for Yuletide, which is not even an AO3 project, still shows a clear bias in favor of text-based works to me. I don't believe building a simple gallery system is inherently more difficult, it's just different. Also the hosting side of the Audiofic archive, for example, is taken care of by one fan who I'm sure has less funding available than the OTW. So if I hear one more time how omg so huuuuge other files are though, poor servers, I'm going to puke. I feel like if there was a will to actually develop these features and host other works there would have been at least one concrete, visible step towards it after five years.
I'm first and foremost a fic writer, but I agree with you.
The Archive has been and still is promoted as a multimedia fanworks archive - but essentially the only thing that was built in five years was a text based Archive. There isn't even a real timeline, yet, for when it will be able to host more than texts. So it's not surprising that people who produce non-textbased fanworks are getting annoyed by now. Especially when meta wasn't a part of the agenda before, but now gets in because "we can already host it anyway", while people waiting for the actual multi-media hosting are still waiting for any sign of it actually happening.
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