Restraint: Fiddling with the Archive

[darkemeralds]

I spent an hour this morning fiddling around at the AO3, because Restraint, in all its 185,000-word glory, presents some challenges to the AO3 posting interface (and my own tracking capabilities). Three or four chapters were somehow duplicates, and the chapter numbering was off.

I've now corrected these defects, but not without casualties: several lovely comments got deleted along with the duplicate chapters they were attached to. At least two of them, from yesterday, I hadn't yet answered.

Comments really are love, and the comment conversations that have grown up around Restraint are wonderful. I go back and re-read them for inspiration sometimes, and several people have told me that they read them, too.

I'm sorry that I deleted any of them; if I'd know it would happen, I'd have at least saved screenshots before starting on the cleanup. If a comment that you wrote is among the fallen, I apologize, and if you commented on Chapter 36: In Which Tristan Casts The First Stone, and haven't had a reply from me, this is why.

Comments

[layne67]

I read the story last night, saw those comments and was planning to read them today. I love reading other people's lovely comments on your story! I'm so sorry to hear that they've been accidentally deleted :(

[darkemeralds]

It made me sad. There's that sort of hollow feeling you get when you delete something and it's gone forever.

[vampirefan]

awww damn. that's too bad :(

i love reading the comments too

[darkemeralds]

And they say nothing ever disappears on the internet. But that must be true only when it's really embarrassing stuff. If you actually want to recover it, it's gone.

*sad*