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Archive of Our Own Could Be Down for Up to 4 Weeks After Going Dark for Emergency Maintenance

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Archive of Our Own Could Be Down for Up to 4 Weeks After Going Dark for Emergency Maintenance

Popular fanfiction site Archive of Our Own, commonly known as AO3, went down for maintenance early this morning. Now, the website is claiming it may take up to a month to come back online.

At 3:26am ET, AO3_Status acknowledged that the site was down for maintenance. Two hours later, the account claimed maintenance was expected "to take at least 12 hours." Then, at 1:59pm, a new post revealed that service restoration will take around two weeks, but it "could be up to" four, leaving dedicated readers without their favorite fanfic destination for the forseeable future.

The latest status update quickly went viral on X, picking up over 7 million views and 140,000 likes. Readers are shocked, to say the least, and have promptly exploded into an apocalyptic frenzy across social media.

We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. Refer to our status page for updates: https://t.co/YAyyoTDOpE

"WE ARE DOOMED" replied one user. "worst tweet in the history of this app. delete" said another.

Some dismayed fans are trying to report the issue up the political chain of command. “SOMEONE DO SOMETHING” says @uhbucky, tagging official government accounts like the CIA, FBI, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and picking up over 20,000 likes.

While AO3 does undergo regular maintenance, the site rarely goes offline for more than 24 hours.


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