Is Archive of Our Own down?

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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 · 2025-11-19

We observed 1 confirmed outage today:

11:35 AM - 5:37 PM

The outage started at about 11:35 AM and ended around 5:37 PM, with a duration of roughly 6 hours 2 minutes. During the outage we received reports from 🇺🇸 United States, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇮🇳 India, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇸🇬 Singapore, 🇹🇷 Türkiye, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇳🇿 New Zealand, 🇳🇱 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) and 18 other countries

To summarize, during the past 24 hours, we received reports from 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇺🇸 United States, 🇹🇷 Türkiye, 🇮🇳 India, 🇹🇭 Thailand, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇹🇼 Taiwan (Province of China), 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇩🇪 Germany and 2 other countries

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last night was **** because twitter was down fine cool i can deal but AO3?? AND SPOTIFY?? how am i meant to do my bedtime routine

is ao3 down??

ao3 is down again i’m ending it all

guys is ao3 still down for you?

10h

Did ao3 just go down in this exact second or am i tripping

10h

I was reading one of the most delicious scrumptious superbat fic when AO3 was down, I couldn't read the next chp, I almost ended it all.

10h

Yesterday was so funny because of Cloudflare. I was doom scrolling twitter during working hours and it went down. So I went to Ao3 to read some fics and it’s down too… So since my distractions are gone, I went to go do some work and Canva was freaking down too. I just went home

11h

so ao3 was down for some people…

13h

i just didn't know that ao3 was down bc i was reading my downloaded fic

13h

that cloudflare outage really interrupted my ao3 bedtime story

14h

ao3 was down today I think I was gonna kill myself

14h

seeing everyone crash out over cloudflare because it messed up twitter and ao3 when i was just trying to do some actual uni work when it went down 😭😭🙏

14h

seeing everyone crash out over cloudfare because it messed up twitter and ao3 when i was just trying to do some actual uni work when it went down 😭😭🙏

14h

Twitter down and ao3 down made me sleep at 10pm wtf 😭

14h

i think some site are down last night. like ao3, kdrama sites and even canva. ano nangyari 😖

15h

didn’t even notice ao3 and twt going down bc i was busy studying… look what this masters is taking from me 😞

15h

Saw twitter was down this morning and didn't think much of it Then ao3 was down and I freaked out

15h

Didn’t notice that AO3 was down bc @20buckleys told me where to read heated rivalry and I’ve been locked the **** in. Is this how I survive the hiatus?

16h