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 · 2026-01-19

We observed 1 confirmed outage today:

4:32 PM - 6:37 PM

The outage started at about 4:32 PM and ended around 6:37 PM, with a duration of roughly 2 hours 4 minutes.

To summarize, during the past 24 hours, we received report mainly from Los Angeles, 🇺🇸 United States

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Ao3 is gonna be down all day tomorrow 🧍🏼‍♀️ nobody talk to me

ao3 will be down for 15 hours idk what ill do with myself

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gonna have to download fics before wednesday to read at work with ao3 down that day until i get home from work. because you know, priorities.

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the concept of ao3 being down on my own birthday

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ao3 being down on the 21st lowkey making me wanna post right before it does hehehe

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just found out AO3 will be down on the 21st from 10am until 1am of the next day, might just kms

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ao3 will be down tonight and once it’s back up again all foah fics will be nuked and gone #trusssst

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woke up to ao3 announcement of being down

ao3 is gonna be down Im SICK

for the first time in my life ao3 being down will actually affect me curse you nct dream yaoi

ao3 planned shut down again it's like they're begging me to kill myself

ao3 down for 15 hours oh its so over

i have a gut feeling january 21st will be doomsday with ao3 being down 💔 im preparing for the storm

ao3 is gonna be down for hours tomorrow i actually need a drink

ao3 only goes down on my days off i swear

ao3 down all of tomorrow boo hoo :(

Ao3 will be down on 21st january to 22nd well.....happy birthday to me ig ao3 you're sabotaging my birthday😭😭

Bato gone ao3 is gonna be down for 15 hours should we all just die

ao3 down wednesday so #fastbreakmonday this week i guess

ao3 will be down on jan 21st,,, someone fetch me my bathing toaster it's time to make a permanent solution they've literally hit the pentagon

Ao3 i cannot handle you going down rn

what the actual **** DO YOU MEAN AO3 IS DOWN FOR 15 HOURS. WHAT THE ****. WHY. WHY. WHY. I'M GOANHFJWJGBCBNSJFHV

AO3 will be down for FIFTEEN (15) HOURS TOMORROW. DOWNLOAD YOUR STORIES RIGHT NOW!!!!

batoto is gone and ao3 is down lol should i just kms😂😂😂😂😂

Ao3 going down for maintenance. Time to download

How dare AO3 be scheduled to be down ON MY BIRTHDAY, UHM RUDE

ao3 is going to be down for 15 hours the day before bts tickets go on sale how am i supposed to cope?????

AO3 will be down for 15 hours... I'd rather die... The human mind is truly so fragile... Or maybe I'm just not ***'s strongest soldier...

AO3 DOWN FOR 15 HOURS...

Ao3 is going to be down for 15 hours, the last time this happened batoto had our back.... now WHAT orhttps://x.com/D0TMP4/status/1792814665732641253/video/1