AO3 outage extends to weeks
The gist
The Organization for Transformative Works took fanfiction site AO3 offline and estimates restoration in 2-4 weeks.
The site hosts over 18.8 million works; OTW says no data was deleted.
How it unfolded
- Oct 29, 2026 07:13 UTCThe AO3 status page posts 'Investigating – AO3 is down for maintenance.'
- Oct 29, 2026 09:03 UTCThe status page says maintenance is in progress and is expected to take at least 12 hours, possibly longer.
- Oct 29, 2026 17:41 UTCOTW estimates restoration 'around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks,' hoping to return sooner in a degraded state.