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

Outages are identified by unusual patterns or anomalies in user report activity

🌐 Archive of Our Own Outage Map

The map is created using the locations of users who have submitted reports on the site

Archive of Our Own outage map · 2025-08-03

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 Beijing, 🇨🇳 China

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🔎 Social Media Monitoring

We monitor social media to detect signals that indicate issues with services

important question: is ao3 down or is my wifi slow

did ao3 just go down or is it me

did ao3 just go down or did i overwhelm it with the amount of tags i said to exclude

Did ao3 just go down for anyone else?

12h

is ao3 down?

15h

How down bad do you have to be to read ao3 at the hospital?

is ao3 fcking down againn!!??????

is ao3 down......

ao3 breaking when i finally sat down to reply to comments . Puts my hand on the window

ao3 not working as per usual? 🥴

i need someone to permanently take ao3 down i cant ******* do this anymore

Did ao3 down—

Everytime ao3 is down I revert back To tumblr and feel as though I’ve been away from home

Why is ao3 down??? please noo i can’t breathe

twt not working everyone’s fighting bye ao3 here i come

i love not knowing when Ao3 is down (apparently it was yesterday, but i was asleep, so wtv) Bc I always just have the entire fic loaded instead of doing the chapter by chapter (i am cheap and will not pay for LTE, so i need full-length fics ready on the go)