I am now wondering what disabling the share feature on AO3 is supposed to mean exactly, for a public fic, since people are probably still going to link to it anyway (and maybe not even realize sharing is disabled, or that there's an autosharing feature at all). Now I want to know when that happened, and what was the reasoning behind it. I can see the autosharing feature being automatically disabled if someone archive-locks their fic, but that doesn't happen and you can cut and paste the code as if it wasn't locked anyway. I don't think it even indicates the fic is locked -- you just get that webpage when you click on the link.