ao3org:

Hi Star Wars fans! As we bask in the glow of new canon, your excited wrangling team would like to walk you through some upcoming shifts in how Star Wars fandoms are organized on the Archive.

As anyone in the fandom knows, there’s over forty years of Star Wars content, both canon and Legends, across a slew of different eras. Since the Archive opened, we’ve been canonizing each individual book, movie, or other piece of canon separately, but that has resulted in a very large tree. Large tag trees are bad for the Archive’s servers and they’ve been increasing errors for users, including error messages, slow browsing, and works missing from the filters.

In order to keep the servers from crying, we’re going to be streamlining some of this tree so the fandom tags for individual pieces of series will be merged with the other parts of their storyline, as other fandoms on the archive do. The first step in this process is going to be folding the individual saga movie tags into their respective trilogy meta tags (i.e., Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy).

You’ll still be able to use the individual movie fandom tags on your works! The tags in the trilogies will simply be merged as a family, so A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi will all be part of a single fandom.

You can also use the Additional Tags field if you want to highlight an individual film in your work. We have canonicals for all eight already (for example, Movie: Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.)

This will be happening over the next month. We really hope the reduced server strain makes for a smoother Archive experience for everyone.

May the Force Be With You,

The Star Wars Tag Wrangling Team

From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.