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Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

I don't check my gifts page itself that often, but I do check my dashboard itself pretty frequently. Part of it is habit, because I'm pretty sure the "most recent items in your inbox" and "random items you Marked For Later" feeds on the front page are new, so for a long time if I wanted to go to my comment inbox, or my fic history or marked-for-later fics, I went through my dash. Part of it is just glancing at the public-facing stats on the most recent non-anon fics I posted. Or sometimes I want to go to one of my own fics (to reread it? to check out a comment? Reply to a comment? One time I lost my notes for a WIP and needed to check what I'd named an OC.)

And when I'm on my dash, there's the link to my gift page. I get used to seeing one number, and then when there's a new exchange, it increments! Now "47" means "excitement!" Then I read #47, and NOPE DNW, and now "47" in that spot just gives me a sinking feeling in my stomach and brings back the negative feelings from the fic.

Heck, in the runup to an exchange, I tend to refresh my dash a lot looking for that number to increment rather than refreshing the gifts page itself. Idk, I just use the dash as my homepage for AO3.

Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

Part of it is habit, because I'm pretty sure the "most recent items in your inbox" and "random items you Marked For Later" feeds on the front page are new.

They're not new, but if you had a smaller screen and didn't scroll down, they wouldn't have been visible. Like if you don't follow any tags, that part is blank so you don't know it's on the front page.

Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about bad gifts, but +1 to the rest of this, esp. the dash generally working as a homepage.