Is Archive of Our Own down?

Status: ✅ OK

There is currently no sign of a Archive of Our Own outage.

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit, user-driven platform for hosting and sharing fanworks, including fanfiction, fanart, and other creative content.

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Archive of Our Own outage map · 2026-04-01

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

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Hollanov fic where Ilya finds out what AO3 is and comes across **** about him & Shane and writes down the positions so that he can try them out with Shane

Is ao3 down

17m

@wwxwashere so funny until they try to change it back and ao3 shuts down indefinitely

56m

@sparksungchan Honestly not a bad idea given how often ao3 has been down lately

IS AO3 DOWN FOR YALL

guys if ao3 is down tomorrow it’s bc our plolycule is going through a crisis i apologise

GUYS AO3 IS DOWN WHAT DO WE DO

@inukaisbf @PeakPiece31 Ao3 users threaten to Jill themselves if the sites goes down for an hour

15h

@emp_byzantine so funny how far down it is though. old thg writers come back to ao3

16h

throw size difference my way and i'll be down for any ship faster than it takes to open ao3

@catkn1ves I think AO3 has already taken it down lol, dumbass clearly didnt actually read the sites TOS

16h

@belovedhrts The account needs to be reported & that "story" needs to be reported & taken down. Is ao3 doing anything about these people?

18h

Why is my ao3 not working I’m gonna flip I’m at work and I need to do my work (read practice kiss then dry humping fics)

20h

bruh is ao3 down again?? Why can’t I post this update

Omg is ao3 down

is ao3 down?!?!!!

I love how fixing the link on my ******* AO3 works has immediatly resulted in me getting more followers 🫠 (thank you person that told me they were not working)

they need to put ao3 down

is ao3 down?

Ship so rare i know exactly how many fics there are on ao3 and that 5 have been deleted </3 there use to be 195, now we're down to 190 </3

Is ao3 down????

@figsbaez They have always been there. From Ao3 down here, someone has to promote fanfics

This is the third time I've tried to iron out my press conference predictions and I keep getting distracted someone make ao3 go down right now please

@paradisebleah y’all know i’m ao3 down

man, I gotta get back to my fanfic. I guess the ao3 curse is real bc after I published the first chapter, that’s when the outage happened. 😭

why is ao3 down **** this

ao3 author curse is real because why did i randomly wake up this morning with severe vertigo and nausea?? i've not been able to keep anything down,,,,i'll buy medicine tmr...

ao3 fic writers taking down their works is my burning of the library of alexandria

hello is ao3 down.

@isgwrld I have currently 23 AO3 kiis fanfics and I'm reading them at the same time i search for more- while I'm here kiis shall not fall down 🤺