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  • Five Things Rhine Said

    Published: Tue 01 Jul 2025 04:02PM UTC Comments: 9

    Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today's post is with Rhine, who volunteers as a volunteer manager in the Translation Committee.

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  • TOS Spotlight: Commercial Promotion

    Published: Sat 28 Jun 2025 05:28PM UTC Comments: 110

    The Policy & Abuse committee (PAC) is responsible for enforcing the AO3 Terms of Service (TOS). To help users better understand the TOS, we're posting a weekly spotlight series about the TOS and our policies. We'll also be reading comments and answering questions on this and our other spotlight posts.

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  • Releases 0.9.409 - 0.9.413: Change Log

    Published: Thu 26 Jun 2025 05:20PM UTC Comments: 28

    In May and June, we made some security additions for user accounts by adding email notifications when an account's username or password is changed. We also made some improvements around tag sets and challenge signups. As one more security change, we also permanently disabled image embedding in guest comments.

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