emmadelosnardos replied to your post: The tags section on AO3 took an oddly long time to load and I got all excited, thinking maybe they’d finally gotten their shit together.

i do use the tags! sometimes i just like looking through them to see unusual topics or themes in the fandom. it’s a good way to find older fics, too.

I used to try to do that, when they were working, but I could never get the searches to run properly.  I’d test it on tags I was familiar with, and I’d only get about half of the fics I knew were tagged with it.

It’s cool to know it’s such a popular feature, though. 🙂  I’d use it myself, if I thought I could get decent results.