AO3 outage tied to a security incident may last up to a month
Original title: ‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage
OTW says restoration may take about two weeks and up to a month, and it does not expect data loss.
The Organization for Transformative Works said Archive of Our Own is down because of a security incident, after first describing the outage as maintenance. Restoration is expected to take around two weeks and could take up to a month. An OTW representative told CNET the archive uses Ruby on Rails and that the outage is not related to this week's PHP security issue. OTW has said it does not expect data loss. Writers described shifting drafts to other sites or pausing long works.
Unconfirmed: OTW has not described what the security incident was; a link to the PHP issue was denied.
- An updated Friday status report confirmed a security incident.
- OTW first posted Thursday that the site was down for maintenance.
- The archive uses Ruby on Rails, not PHP.
- OTW says it does not expect any data loss.
- Some authors are posting on Space Battles, Tumblr or fanfiction.net meanwhile.
Impact: Site unavailable; OTW says no data loss is expected
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| Organization for Transformative Works Archive of Our Own | — |
- Products
- Archive of Our Own
- Victims
- Archive of Our Own
- Organizations
- Organization for Transformative Works
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Writer and readers share what they're feeling and doing in the aftermath of the AO3 outage. It's anything but Wattpad.
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