Although the outage lasted less than two days, it exposed how deeply embedded AO3 has become in many people’s daily routines.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a ...

Counting fics, as Destiel fans will tell you, is serious business these days. “i dont believe this one bit u mean to tell me sam & dean gen was posted more than destiel….” one user responded. Outraged ...

Long gone are the days when fan fiction was treated as a guilty pleasure, exclusively consumed on a glowing iPad screen under the covers at night and never to be discussed outside of Tumblr. We’re ...

As AO3 is one of the biggest fanfiction repositories on the whole internet, it’s to be expected that not everything can work perfectly all the time. However, there are certainly easy places to check ...

How long will AO3 be down? Is AO3 shutting down? This post answers your questions and suggests ArchiveOfOurOwn alternatives too. If you are wondering what happened to the ArchiveOfOurOwn website, no, ...

It was an internet nerd’s worst nightmare. On July 10, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a beloved, nonprofit fan-fiction platform, was plagued by DDoS attacks, rendering it inaccessible for over a day. It ...

Archive of Our Own experienced prolonged, intermittent outages as a cyberattack targeted its servers. Archive of Our Own experienced prolonged, intermittent outages as a cyberattack targeted its ...

One of the buzziest internet stories of the week sounds like a digital-age Mad Libs: Fan fiction website AO3 was taken down by a hacktivist group in a DDoS attack. As they say, sometimes truth is ...