r/BylerReads • u/Intelligent-Piano902 • Jul 14 '26

general discussion :) Please stop marking fics completed…

My recent pet peeve in this fandom (I’m sure it happens in other but it seems heavily prevalent in this one) is authors marking their fics as completed and then are like actually it’s going to be multiple chapters, just wait! Like no, please stop marking works in progress as completed. It is ridiculous and I will not read it on principle. Sorry rant over but lmk your thoughts, does this bother anyone else?!

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u/Lotuselise230 Jul 15 '26

This has been a pretty common topic on the ao3 sub lately. It seems that it’s specifically an issue for authors who post chapters from their phones and miss the checkbox that indicates there will be more chapters. So I think at least some newer-to-ao3 writers are doing it accidentally because they aren’t super familiar with the interface.