“What did we learn tonight, Peter?”
“That despite being very similar in apparance and function the ‘works’ and ‘search’ pages of Ao3 are actually coded completely differently”
“That despite being very similar in apparance and function the ‘works’ and ‘search’ pages of Ao3 are actually coded completely differently”
“How different” well one of them refers to its tags by name and the other uses an inscrutable internal tag ID number
So that’s not great
The context here is I’m trying to extend my Primary Ship Search extension to work from the filter/sort sidebar
And it turns out that that is NOT a trivial task at all
Ah, Peter fell for the Engineer's Folly
"This probably won't be too hard, I bet I can bang it out in an afternoon"
Yep
😭
I’ll get it done, it just won’t be the quick in and out I was hoping for