Happy holidays from AO3!

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ao3org:

To celebrate the spirit of giving and gathering, we’re providing 8 invitations to all users who have been with us 6 months or more and

• posted at least 1 work, or
• left at least 5 comments, or
• given at least 10 kudos

Since we’re generating a lot of invitations (over 7 million!), it might take a few days for them to arrive in your account, so don’t worry if you haven’t gotten them just yet! You can follow these instructions to access and share your invite codes with anyone who wants an account.

Happy Hanukkah!

Me, not thinking about how many users we have: last year we sent holiday invitations on Christmas… hey, right now it’s Hanukkah! Let’s make it eight!

Also! Why you might want to hit someone up for an invitation even if you don’t create fanworks:

• Bookmark things! Even privately! Because sometimes you really want to return to that particular piece of filth over and over but you don’t want anyone to know. >.>
• Change how the site looks! For example, the Reversi skin provides a dark grey background with white text, perfect for ~bedtime reading~, as 99% of our Twitter followers refer to it when we go down at certain hours. 
• There’s even a moderately useful skin wizard to make it easier to tweak the display if you don’t know CSS and there isn’t a skin that fits your needs. (It’s okay; I’m allowed to call it “moderately useful” because I’m the one who rewrote the code. I know where it’s lacking.)
• Leave kudos with your name attached! (I mean, maybe you don’t want this, depending on your reading habits. But maybe you do!)
• Subscribe to your favorite WIPs, series, or creators to get email notifications of updates! Just… don’t forget to check your spam folder or your Social tab if you use Gmail, because sometimes they end up there.
• Keep track of what you’ve read and want to read with History and Marked for Later! A random selection of three works you’ve Marked for Later will even sit there on the homepage and judge you silently when you go I have nothing to reeeead.