Is Archive of Our Own down?

Status: ❌ PROBLEMS

Users are reporting that Archive of Our Own is experiencing issues at the moment.

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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📈 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 · 2026-01-21

We observed 5 confirmed outages today:

6:02 AM - ... ongoing

Reports started to rise at 6:02 AM and have been ongoing for the past 10 hours 1 minute.

3:13 AM - 4:02 AM

The outage occurred between 3:13 AM and 4:02 AM, lasting roughly 49 minutes.

1:23 AM - 1:56 AM

The outage started at approximately 1:23 AM and ended around 1:56 AM, lasting about 32 minutes.

7:58 PM - 12:03 AM

The outage took place between 7:58 PM and 12:03 AM, with a duration of roughly 4 hours 5 minutes.

2:10 PM - 5:11 PM

The outage took place between 2:10 PM and 5:11 PM, with a duration of roughly 3 hours 1 minute. During the outage we received reports mainly from Nanchang, 🇨🇳 China

To summarize, during the past 24 hours, we received report mainly from Puerto Montt, 🇨🇱 Chile

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ao3 is down im gonn cry

My gf is vaping bc ao3 is down, buck my fawnish life

huh down ao3

Man ao3 is down

good omens and percy jackson s3 look in one day while ao3 is down im tweaking

Awww ao3 is down cant read stuff

Ao3’s still down 🥲

school finished and i just remembered ao3 is down until tomorrow basically 💔

How are we all holding up with the AO3 outage? 😅🫠 I do have some on my fics on google drive if anyone is desperate and wants a link 😆😆

Is ao3 still down or am I having issues please I need to know!!!!

ao3 down so i ended up rushing the written part of the socmed au 🤡

ao3 still down the numbers on that suwercide watch is close to moving

forgot ao3 is down how am i supposed to start my day right..

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**** i forgot ao3 is down

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ao3 went down while i was in the middle of a fic what if i kms

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Ao3 is down for 15 hours ☹️

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Ao3 being down I generally don't know what to do with my life LIKE I HAVE A FREE SESSION RN I COULD BE READING #byler RN

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AO3 DOWN THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA

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I know ao3 warned us about going down, and that I should have been prepared, but at the same time WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITHOUT YOU

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I was going to post by ao3 is down...oh well...readers shall wait 😂

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ao3 has been down for eight hours i'm on the verge of collapse

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i ******* forgot that ao3 is going to be down for maintence today and IM SO ****** BC I CANT READ QUIET AFTERNOON CRUSH FOR THE LIKE 50th TIME NOW @yejddeongies 😭😭😭😭

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