Otter's Rock

From melannen 's DW post:

In all that reminiscing about platforms of old that I did on the survey, I realized the only one I really missed (as opposed to missing the people who were there) was del.icio.us, and specifically del.icio.us 's "recently popular pages with this tag" pages. I had the "popular pages tagged 'slash'" page on del.icio.us bookmarked and basically read everything that appeared on it (unless it was one of my DNW pairings.) It was the zeitgeist of fandom-as-a-whole (or, at least, the parts of lj slash fandom that had adopted del.icio.us) and always full of good fic to read.

There doesn't really seem to be anything that will do that anymore. pinboard.in/popular/fandom tries, but there's really not enough people bookmarking fic there for it to work. And I'm kinda between fandoms right now (or, well, not super-plugged-in to any fandom that is large enough to get me all the fic I want, anyway) so I miss it a lot.

It occurred to me though that AO3 would probably let me filter for recent, popular fic if I massaged its Advanced Search page. And it will! Sort of. You can't filter by *when* a kudos was given, and there doesn't seem to be away to search for works posted in a particular time range - only for works posted *or* updated in that time range, which doesn't give as good of results because it's swamped by long-going WIPs that just finished.

But I kind of got there by searching completed works in English with more than 500 kudos sorted in order of posting, which seems to give a pretty good overview of recently popular fics in recently popular fandoms.

I've always been bummed about that, since the death of del.icio.us, and ESPECIALLY since Pinboard's "popular in fandom" page turned into mostly politics and twitter stuff after the 2016 election.  So I'm really happy to have this, thank you melannen !