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

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Archive of Our Own outage map · 2025-07-12

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

To summarize, during the past 24 hours, we received report mainly from Brisbane, 🇦🇺 Australia

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I was unaffected by the ao3 bookmark issue first of all i don’t use bookmarks and second of all I was at a festival the entire time it was down

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watched a video about how AO3 was down this earlier this month and it was explaining how everyone was losing their **** about it being down for 10 hours and I was just like. are you guys okay? do you guys have hobbies other than gooning

Is @AO3_Status down it logged me out and when I logged back in it's saying my session expired

hi ladies I have an ao3 profile now so I’ll be posting my fics if u are interested… I have 1 finished fic and 3 ongoing. I think I will be down to take requests also but reader insert is what I usually write

i’m scared for my LIFE. I’m mid writing on ao3, mid power outage and there’s no internet. I can’t post just yet or save it in docs CUS NOTHING IS SAVING. AND MY COMPUTER MIGHT DIE SOON ASWELL :(( IM STRESSING TF OUTT

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If ao3 goes down while it’s kfweek2025 and I’m off work living life the way I want, i'm gonna lose it

Fun fact ao3 went down because somebody bookmarked a dead dove one direction fic

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

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