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 · 2026-02-12

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

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is ao3 down for anyone else or is that just me???

IS AO3 DOWN??? I CANNOT FIND MY FICS

10h

I think "AO3 has to allow RPF depicting a real minor artist in sexual scenes because conservative bigots took down other fanfiction websites" is a weak argument.

13h

ao3 is not working on my end or maybe it's just my internet connection

23h

Chat I can't read my fanfics on AO3 rn, the website is down for me. I think my life is over. Idk if I can live without it 😩😩😩😔

ao3 down before uruha’s bday this is homophobia

why is ao3 down bruh

don't tell me ao3 is down......

Got so scared of Ao3 not working bcs cloudfare was simply not working whenever i tried to open it... then i realized its simply just my college's wifi sucking up.

is ao3 down soon

Ao3 is down what is life 😭

for anyone reading underglass and metanoia, i’ll be taking them down soon since i’m moving them to ao3.

my biggest fear is when im working from home on my personal desktop so i can **** around during down time and then i accidentally paste an ao3 link in a slack channel

Ao3 still not working 😭😭😭

why is ao3 down what the ****

I WAS ABOUT TO START THE DIRTY TALK BYLER FIC AND ******* AO3 IS DOWN I HATE MY STUPID ******* CHUNGUS LIFE

okay real talk is ao3 actually down for anyone else or does my computer just hate me. LET. ME. INNNNNN oh wait it loaded

Is anyone else’s Ao3 down? 🥲

aww did ao3 go down again? i need to get my works onto my website sometime

Uh oh Ao3 seems to be down...

YALL NEED TO STOP ASKING IF I'M INTERESTED AU FICS!!!!!!!!!!! YOU KNOW I'M AO3 DOWN

Reading ao3 while my dorm building burns down

why the **** is ao3 not working????

is ao3 down or just me thats suffering????

I’ve literally blocked people for saying the ao3 tagging system is too hard like are you 5 I had that **** down the first time I was on the site at 11 years old

IS AO3 DOWN?!?! 😭😭

is ao3 down? 😭😭

is ao3 down

If ao3 ever shuts down itll be the end of us all

i think someone unsubscribed my ao3 bcs i wrote alpha osc. just noticed the numbers went down 😅 everyone has preferences, mine stays the same