Archive of Our Own says outage may last up to four weeks
Original title: Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for 'Up to 4 Weeks'
OTW moved its estimate from 12 hours to about two weeks, and possibly a month.
The Organization for Transformative Works said Archive of Our Own went down Thursday for maintenance. Its estimate later moved from at least 12 hours to about two weeks, and possibly as long as a month. OTW hopes to restore a degraded site sooner, with possible further interruptions. No cause beyond maintenance is stated.
Unconfirmed: The cause of the extended maintenance is not stated.
- As of September, AO3 hosted over 18.4 million works across over 82,900 fandoms.
- OTW said a degraded return could still require temporary shutdowns.
- Products
- Archive of Our Own
- Organizations
- Organization for Transformative Works
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Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, might be down for as long as a month after going down for "maintenance" on Thursday. The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization that runs AO3, posted on its status page early Thursday morning that the site was down for maintenance.
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