As a reader, I was surprised to discover that I found the whole tags approach on the Archive incredibly off-putting. And generally I love tags! But it turns out that I don't want them thrust upon me in a story archive -- hopefully they'll allow you to customize your viewing preferences. Or maybe someone will build a separate, alternate portal with a different interface that simply uses the archive as a database.

Then again, I'm not the target audience for the archive. I read pretty narrowly (call it risk aversion) based on recs & authors, so I'm generally not interested in browsing by fandom or pairing or warning or trope. In other words, I wouldn't use tags for discovery or filtering, and it seems like the tag structure and culture is designed with those uses in mind.