Fanfic Hub Archive of Our Own Faces Weeks Offline - CNET
October has been a rocky month for readers of the fan-run fiction site Archive of Our Own. Now, a routine disruption has escalated into a crisis. What began as an estimated 12-hour unplanned outage has ballooned into a multi-week shutdown, leaving millions of users locked out of the site following a series of intermittent disruptions throughout the month.
The platform is operated by the Organization for Transformative Works.
“We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks, but it could be up to 4 weeks,” the site said in an update posted Thursday to its status page, and disseminated via Bluesky and Tumblr. “We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has to be brought down temporarily until this is fully resolved.”
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