There is a lot of... stuff going on with yuletide this year, to do with the way they're eliminating fandoms based on AO3 usage. Discworld is massively over-represented there because people put Death in a lot of non-DW fics, so there are loads of fics tagged with it that aren't actually DW fics. They nixxed it this year initially, but someone wrote an appeal based on how pretty much all the DW fic on AO3 is either a crossover or from a previous yuletide, so it's definitely not an active fandom in the proper sense of the word. That happened with a couple of fandoms this year, and RPF fandoms tend to be affected by that more (Pundits and Ryan/Simon were originally on the off list as well) because it's harder to definitively divide into distinct fandoms.
On the one hand, I'm really grateful to the mods, and obviously they can run it however they want, but on the other hand, if it's a too-time-consuming issue (as opposed to a genuinely-too-difficult-to-code issue) there are hundreds of people willing to help out if they need help certifying fandom stats.
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Date: 2011-01-07 01:29 am (UTC)On the one hand, I'm really grateful to the mods, and obviously they can run it however they want, but on the other hand, if it's a too-time-consuming issue (as opposed to a genuinely-too-difficult-to-code issue) there are hundreds of people willing to help out if they need help certifying fandom stats.