Sift for AO3

A browser extension for reading on Archive of Our Own. It keeps your excluded tags on for every listing and search, mutes authors even when you're logged out, and on a ship's works page it can fold away the fics where that ship is only a side pairing.

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A ship's works page with the Sift bar: 3 of 10 works hidden because the ship isn't listed first

Your ship first

On a relationship tag's works page, tick "Only works where this ship is listed first". Works where the ship is a background pairing shrink to one line with a Show button. Sift reads AO3's own list of other names for the ship, so a reversed pairing still counts. There's a looser "first two relationship tags" option too.

Excluded tags that stay excluded

AO3's filter sidebar forgets your excluded tags when you open another tag or search. Exclude a tag once, from any work's Sift panel or the options page, and every AO3 listing you open from then on leaves it out. Sift adds the tag to AO3's own filter, so synonym tags are excluded too and pages stay full.

The Sift panel on a work, with Exclude next to each tag and Mute next to the author

Muted authors

Mute an author and their works fold away on every listing, under every pseud, without an AO3 account.

Install

The Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons listings are in review. Until they're up, download sift-ao3-1.0.0-chrome.zip from the latest release, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and choose "Load unpacked".

Privacy

Your lists are saved only in your browser and never sent to me. Sift has no account, no server and no analytics. It talks to one website, AO3. Details are in the privacy policy.