Is Archive of Our Own down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is currently no sign of a Archive of Our Own outage.

The Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open-source repository for fanfiction and other transformative fanworks, created and maintained by the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW). AO3 hosts a diverse range of fanworks, including fanfiction stories, fanart, fanvids, podfics, and more

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📈 User Reports and Outages in the Last 24 Hours

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🌐 Archive of Our Own Outage Map

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Archive of Our Own outage map · 2026-01-23

We haven't noticed any confirmed outages affecting Archive of Our Own in the past 24 hours.

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🔎 Social Media Monitoring

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someone send out the bat signal…… ao3 is down

My internet is downright ****** or Ao3 is down???

I hate when I have to play the game of “is ao3 down or is my internet ****”

i love ao3 if ao3 ever got taken down suicide is the answer

i thought my connection was just ****** but ao3 is down

ao3 down this is sick

AO3 DOWN AGAIN OMG

My AO3 is loading so slowly, is it going down?

Is ao3 down?

IS AO3 DOWN IM LITERALLY ABOUT TO POST SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is ao3 not working ulit HAHSHAA

power outage fic being the second most kudoed fic in ao3. some are really performative byler haters 😭 y'all just be lying for clicks

AO3 is down again **** this ****

is ao3 down i need my bedtime story

Ao3 is DOWN PLSSSSS I NEED TO READDDDDDDD

guys is it just me or is ao3 not working again o<-<

is ao3 down? 😭

10h

need to tune in to hudson and finish connor's ep of shut up podcast bc i saved it for ao3 down and then ended up reading download fics

17h

ao3 needs to shut down again cause now i have several chapter fics saved and i only made it through 2 of them during the #incident

19h

is ao3 still down,...

22h

Still not over how I complained abt ao3 being down yesterday and my teacher said “I think it’s back up”like hello

23h

I GO AWAY 24 HOURS - HUDCON AT THE OLYMPICS - TJIAN ENDGAME - AO3 DOWN - BATO GONE WTF

“twitter is down!!” as long as ao3 is fine the earth will not collapse, calm down you dramatic ***.

the worst part about this snow storm is the fact ao3 will be down for 15 hours of it🥀

wdym instagram is down??? RIGHT AFTER AO3 TOO </3 **** MY ******* CHUNGUS LIFE.

Ao3 still down?

no new cg art and ao3 is down so tuff

is ao3 stil down

ao3 is down somebody kill me

The ‘you’ve got kudos’ email from ao3 is always so depressing after a site shut down