Archive of Our Own offline with restoration estimated at up to four weeks

The non-profit fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own experienced an outage that administrators estimate could take up to four weeks to resolve.

FTMQ Entertainment, written by our newsroom30 October 2026 at 00:050 views

The non-profit fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own suffered a major site outage on October 29, 2026. Mashable and Rolling Out both reported that site administrators estimate restoring full service could take between two and four weeks. [1][3]

According to Mashable, the archive posted an update to its official status account on X stating that volunteers hope to bring the platform back online in a degraded state before full restoration is complete. [1]

Archive of Our Own was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works [4]. It functions as a non-profit, open-source repository designed to host user-contributed fanfiction and other fanworks [4]. [4]

Archive of Our Own experienced a site outage on October 29, 2026.
Site restoration is estimated to take between two and four weeks.
Archive of Our Own is a non-profit fanfiction repository created in 2008.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

[1]AO3 outage: Fanfiction site could be down for 4 weeks. Fans are not OK.Mashable, 3h ago (the report this story comes from)
[2]Austin Powers 4: Mike Myers Gives Update on Sequel That Dr. Evil Fans Will LoveComingSoon.net, 5h ago
[3]AO3 is down and a 2 to 4 week wait beginsRolling Out, 5h ago

Background

[4]Archive of Our Own on Wikipedia
[5]2024 CrowdStrike-related IT outages on Wikipedia

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