And yup! It really, really shouldn't be (and I say this despite actually asking for it in Yuletide last year, lol). AO3 only has 235 after filters, which makes sense given how old the fandom is. But on ff.n it's 3.2k without filters which is not a good sign - generally the filters tend to shrink by half at most - except it shrinks to 427 only (not counting the crossovers, but those don't usually make any real difference to numbers unless it's close to the benchmark). I poked at it and figured out why though - one of the Yuletide filters is completeness, see. Ff.n didn't add that option in till like 2005ish? I poked through the Wayback Machine to confirm that last year, but I've forgotten the actual year now. And Revolutions came out in 2003, so the vast majority of the fics were posted well before there was an option to mark fics as complete, and few authors went back to their previously-posted fics to do so. Anyway, if you turn that part of the filter off, it jumps to 2.1k which is a lot closer to the real numbers on ff.n (which would probably be somewhere around 1.5k - at the very least, it would definitely be over). There's a LOT of Matrix fic there, lol. So yeah, it's one of the few fandoms that found a loophole in the rules - but given how few fandoms actually are affected by that (most are either over in numbers despite that bringing the ff.n numbers down, or they're so tiny it wouldn't make a difference), the mods are not inclined to be more nitpicky.
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Date: 2020-09-27 09:57 pm (UTC)And yup! It really, really shouldn't be (and I say this despite actually asking for it in Yuletide last year, lol). AO3 only has 235 after filters, which makes sense given how old the fandom is. But on ff.n it's 3.2k without filters which is not a good sign - generally the filters tend to shrink by half at most - except it shrinks to 427 only (not counting the crossovers, but those don't usually make any real difference to numbers unless it's close to the benchmark). I poked at it and figured out why though - one of the Yuletide filters is completeness, see. Ff.n didn't add that option in till like 2005ish? I poked through the Wayback Machine to confirm that last year, but I've forgotten the actual year now. And Revolutions came out in 2003, so the vast majority of the fics were posted well before there was an option to mark fics as complete, and few authors went back to their previously-posted fics to do so. Anyway, if you turn that part of the filter off, it jumps to 2.1k which is a lot closer to the real numbers on ff.n (which would probably be somewhere around 1.5k - at the very least, it would definitely be over). There's a LOT of Matrix fic there, lol. So yeah, it's one of the few fandoms that found a loophole in the rules - but given how few fandoms actually are affected by that (most are either over in numbers despite that bringing the ff.n numbers down, or they're so tiny it wouldn't make a difference), the mods are not inclined to be more nitpicky.