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 · 2025-11-05

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 Izhevsk, 🇷🇺 Russia

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ao3 reigns supreme ofc but one thing wattpad has i do fw and wish ao3 would implement is the ability to comment on each paragraph/section like its so much more fun that having to quote in a huge clump of comments down below

Is ao3 down or

I dont think ao3 should be shut down. I think it needs a better team

ao3 is down or something?! sedate me now jfc 😭

apparently ao3 is being cancelled or something? people are apparently making nsfw fics about real children and ao3 isnt taking them down? idk

shout-out to Ilovesweets2000 on ao3 i am just as down bad as u are

been reading this fic for hours (I'm a slow reader), got ao3 down mid-reading, been spamming the poor writer of my comments.. I hope they don't mind it.. it just.. too good. and it almost midnight, I really want to finish it ASAP.

sorry about ao3 going down last night everyone. it was the universe forcing me to go the **** to bed it wasn’t supposed to affect anyone else she just got carried away

Why r the polybros fanfics on AO3 going down significantly **** that why r fanfics going down on paswg period guys I'm starving I can't keep writing

thank *** ao3 was down when i had a class

ao3 is down fml

i didn’t know ao3 was down man i thought i had a connection problem i was trying so hard to save these two amazing fixs i read in the morning 😭

DID AO3 GO DOWN AGAIN?? 😭

i have a long travel trip and ao3 is down… kmsing right now

so i decided to watch avengers endgame just because ao3 is down instead of going to sleep

You know it's halloween bc ao3 being down is my biggest fear

ao3 down so im reading socmed aus

Ao3 is down and I have a new little fic out...lovely 😒

ao3 down, hld gone, this fandom is breaking apart

Ao3 down **** my life

dmrc red line and ao3 down at the same time fml

AO3 is down just like my soul idk man-

i know you’re ******* lying ao3 down on HALLOWEEN ???? scariest **** of all time

Waking up to one of my favorite groups disbanding, AO3 down and knowing either AL or T1 is gonna be eliminated from the worlds in a few hours... Happy Friday I guess 😭

Ao3 losers whining bc their csam book site is down. maybe get a real hobby instead

Devastated that once again ao3 is down for maintenance RAAAHHHH I WANNA READ GAY BUT ***

So like AO3 is down.... TESTING MY ******* NERVES ISTG

ao3 being down when I’m trying to read a early morning fic let me just kms

****** night: feeling sick and Ao3 is down 😞

o3 disbanded and ao3 down... you're kidding right