AYRT. I did my first modding in XF fandom before the younger participants of YT were even born. I know what I’m talking about: even if everyone on your modding team has a PhD in computer science, things will go wrong, even if none of you have done anything wrong.
Even if nothing goes wrong, you need to have people on your mod team with IT skills to ensure any issues are fixed ASAP, and you need to keep any team members who don’t have those skills away from certain parts of your exchange unless they break something. If you don’t have people in your mod team with the skill sets required, you are asking for trouble.
The bigger your exchange, the more important it becomes for you to have people on your modding team who have the IT skills to get you out of trouble. YT is a huge exchange and there have been huge issues over the years, some of which were actually fairly minor problems exacerbated by YT’s size.
You should also remember that part of the reason for AO3’s existence is YT because of the massive IT issues the old YT systems had. It was easier to start afresh with coding they had control over. Therefore, the significant crossover between AO3 mods and YT mods.
Re: Your Yuletide sins
Even if nothing goes wrong, you need to have people on your mod team with IT skills to ensure any issues are fixed ASAP, and you need to keep any team members who don’t have those skills away from certain parts of your exchange unless they break something. If you don’t have people in your mod team with the skill sets required, you are asking for trouble.
The bigger your exchange, the more important it becomes for you to have people on your modding team who have the IT skills to get you out of trouble. YT is a huge exchange and there have been huge issues over the years, some of which were actually fairly minor problems exacerbated by YT’s size.
You should also remember that part of the reason for AO3’s existence is YT because of the massive IT issues the old YT systems had. It was easier to start afresh with coding they had control over. Therefore, the significant crossover between AO3 mods and YT mods.