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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Archive of Our Own outage map · 2025-07-09

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being chronically online = knowing the reason why ao3 went down a few days ago 😊

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WDYM AO3 WAS DOWN FOR HOURS THE OTHER DAY BC THE BOOKMARKS WERE BROKEN BC SOMEBODY USED THE LAST PROGRAMMED SLOT FOR BOOKMARKING A LARRY FIC

istg is ao3 down again 🙃

y’all is ao3 down again ? 😭

that being said…if ao3 ever shuts down permanently i’ll just km$

computer shut down randomly and closed all my ao3 tabs and i don't remember what i had open wtf

is tiktok just making up **** where the **** is the rumor that ao3 was down bc of a 1d omega fic came from lol

Why I heard rumors that the reason ao3 was down bcs someone hit the bookmark of ddne 1d fic 😭

ao3 being down for a larry fic i’m screaming

so was anyone going to tell me that the whole ao3 being down for maintenance was because a one direction dead dove do not eat fic got too many bookmarks or was i supposed to find that out from tiktok myself

ao3 was down cuz the max amount of bookmarks got reached… the last bookmark…. the one that caused it… was on a dead dove one direction fic OMG

i cant believe ao3 went down because of integer overflow thats so funny

someone shut ao3 twitter down immediately thank you

ao3 down the other day now my crunchyroll isn't working so who put a curse on me speak up

ao3 going down because of an omega louis fic... isnt that a sign

I’ll have Prompto’s chapter posted later tonight! As many of you know, AO3 was down all day on Thursday, and then yesterday was a holiday, so I wasn’t that active. But for now, the playlist is updated!

Is AO3 down AGAIN? 😭😭😭

tumblr x ao3's shipname is tumo3 and it is yuri. ao3 is a tgirl and tumblr is a demigirl (she/they/ae) and ao3 was down because she was getting top surgery

the worst person you know made a post acting like they can't breathe because ao3 was down

why is ao3 apparently always going down

ao3 send me a random assortment of "you got kudos" messages after being down. not like recent stuff, just a bunch at random

why does AO3 have to be down😭 I was trying to read a bedtime story man

What fandom are you in, that if ao3 is down for a few hours. You’re missing out on reading anything

just lost all my ao3 tabs on safari and can’t even check ao3 history cause apparently i wasn’t logged in pls drop recs down below 😭 yoonjin and ot7 especially but i read anything and everything!! (except omegaverse)

ao3 was down yesterday and i ended up sleeping 14 hours instead of updating my fanfic

BIRCH WHY IS AO3 ATILL DOWN I NEED MY GAY LITTLE FICS PLS

Ao3 is down FUUUUUUUCK

Apparently ao3 had an outage last night but I was definitely still reading on it when that happened LMAO

bro why is ao3 still down for me theres so much I wanna read 😞😞😞😞

Ok...is Ao3 still down? 🥺 Not letting people sign in or is it just me?😭