my silly two cents on why I don’t think ao3 ever needs an official app are that
it works just fine as it is
if it has an app, that means it has to be approved by appstore / google play store, that means there’s a very real and high chance of appstore and play store “banning specific contents from ao3”, leading to censorship. so this goes against ao3’s core principles of being against censorship.
I think we’re so used to every single thing being an app that we don’t realize not everything has to be an app. the “should ao3 has an app or not” discourse wasn’t around before until recently, and there’s a reason for that.
also worth mentioning that all the “ao3 apps” you see are third-party apps (and these apps usually have ads). as of the time this post is being made, ao3 does not have an app. so all the “ao3 apps” you see are not affiliated with the actual ao3 in any way, shape or form. so be very careful giving these apps your login info and/or other personal information.
















