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Reports about problems with Archive of Our Own

Mina

Cloudflare keep popping up every 30min to an hr. Is so damn annoying.

Lisa Marie Parker

Website is not working, it will not load

arachnidsGrip

for some reason it keeps going white whenevr i click anything

evil gay purple hatsune miku

I Miss You

i don’t wanna retry later i wanna read nowwwwww

Natasha Kala

Is this, like, seriously the year where every single Fanfic website is breaking down almost every day without a proper fix?! Why do I get the sinking feeling Windows 11 is behind all of this?

Meow Epp

Waiter waiter, faster load time please!!

Luz Ysabel

It was working for me for a while and then it stopped

Sarah

The website isnt like actually down. :( it's just taking forever to load and stuff

Senfree

Still not working for me.

HumanDream15

Man I just wanted to read some decent tags and then get a very tiny 'retry later' when trying to log in... ;-; tumblr can only offer so much

Duck

it's loading but like i cannot be waiting FOUR MINUTES for my final angsty fic battle conclusion chapter 2/4 to load EURGHHHhhh

SparksofInspiration

Well, got in a second new chapter for readers who had waited three years for me to continue that particular fic, and now I can't remedy a damn typo I saw cuz site is down. damn you ao3, and damn you typos

Butch Jason Todd

Its working for me now it's just loading slowly 🥹

Ghost-Radi0

Sites back up, you lot can put your torches, pitchforks, and rope down

Solstargazer

What's a girl gotta do to not have her nightly smut interrupted

Senfree

At first, I thought it was because there's a thunder storm going on, but nope. Interesting timing.

Stell

Hurrah for a quick fix

Ghost-Radi0

👀 ooou shiii

Sharu

nvm it working

Duck

went from 27 to 3k+ reports IM CRYING

Laura M

We're back, team, we're back. Thank GOD. So grateful to have had my cat 2 support me in this difficult time

Butch Jason Todd

I finished a long chapter and went to click for the next and this happens

Stell

I dont remember the maintence being scheduled for now.... its supposed to be much later at night for me

Duck

sorry guys i think the event's back on again

Duck

SO I ARENT FRYING

impishEXE

right when i get the motivation to continue writing my fic it goes down 💔 it's been long enough that i need to reread everything to make sure i remember every detail

Ghost-Radi0

Man, just as soon as I was getting to the good part, and the next chapter was up, the site shat itself. Is this maintenance? Or is it down down?

Stell

Just as i was about to start a 140k fic

impishEXE

nah ao3 not workinh for me either

Megan

Ugh

impishEXE

is it just me or are we cooked

Sharu

hello hello my people

Duck

uhhhhh is it just me or is ao3 frying

Laura M

Give me back my bedtime storiessss

Mina

Cloudflare poping up ever so often is a pain to deal with.

Sockeye

u know ball

Yuri

Nvm bad Internet on my part

Yuri

Oh no

Sockeye

GUYS IT DIDNT GO DOWN IM SO PISSEDDDDDD

okay__

bruh

idkmanijustdostuff

I THINK ITS DOWN

idkmanijustdostuff

is it down???

bright

rip

evil gay purple hatsune miku

it was pushed back* #hopium

Yuri

Good job for ao3!! Horrible for the downdetctives (us)!!!

•Melancholy Hearts•

They canceled it everyone go home...

kiyo

NOOOO 💔

Yuri

Woke up at 4 for nothing :( it’s okay I’m happy they were able to figure it out I guess

kiyo

I don’t so??? ao3 stayed up for me

terry

they cancelled it 🫤

kiyo

damn we got scammed bro nothing happened 💔💔

Yuri

Did it just not happen??

kiyo

lowkey real but im staying up until the whole outage is over probs gonna go sleep after that

Yuri

If it was 9 am for me I would still be sleeping 💤 I love sleep

kiyo

maybe still being up at 2am the eve of ao3 going down is a bad idea but uhhhh wtvvvv

kiyo

I don’t have it anymore, but ig if u still have it it’s still happening

•Melancholy Hearts•

I probably wont be here for it actually... Saying hi in advance because of that. Hi hello hi!!

•Melancholy Hearts•

I still have the notice. As far as I'm aware its not.

kiyo

please I need this to happen I miss the community we had

kiyo

am I the only one that doesn’t have the notice anymore??? is it cancelled???

kiyo

it depends on ur time zone, for me it’s gonna be 9am

kiyo

tomorrow… 9am… ao3 is going down….

•Melancholy Hearts•

I just realized I'm gonna be asleep the whole time... remember me chat. </3

kiyo

we must stick together twin 🤞🤞 we will get through this tgt

Yuri

Horrible news I am also still in the same boat

kiyo

when i’m lwk downloading fanfics but like imma be spending all my time here

kiyo

I lwk can’t wait for everyone to come here when ao3 goes down

kiyo

LMAOOOO me neither but it was lwk so fun to talk to everyone

kiyo

OMGGG YAYYYY i’m glad to confirm im still in love with my best friend mika 🤞🤞 still haven’t told her anything 😖

Yuri

4am?? I might be sleeping

Yuri

Messenger pigeons i guess

Yuri

NO WE DIDNT

Yuri

Actively praying for ao3 downfall was not something I expected to happen but here we are!

Sockeye

will it e 4 am for this? yes. Will I set my alarm for this? yes. Yes I will

Sockeye

GUYS IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE MARCH FOR THIS WERE SO BACKKKK

Sockeye

YES. YES!!!!!!!! ITS TIME!!!!!!

kiyo

chat I used to be famous here.. I think everyone forgot me 😖🤞

kiyo

lwk true, kinda excited to see everyone back here again

Lucentt

we had it too good for too long

kiyo

NO THIS CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN 💔💔

Lucentt

pats back

Butch Jason Todd

Cries

•Melancholy Hearts•

Wooo!! Hive Knight is awesome. :]

Jack

SOMEONE HOLD ME IM SCARED…

Lucentt

Indeed it is! One of my favs

•Melancholy Hearts•

We cry.

•Melancholy Hearts•

I spot a Hive Knight pfp (if I'm wrong I'm gonna look very silly).

•Melancholy Hearts•

ITS GOING DOWN AGAIN SOON EVERYONE STAY CALM.

terry

2 days.

Lucentt

here early in prep

kiyo

y’all… what do we do if both ao3 and downdetector are down… I js thought about this

kiyo

woowwww it’s been a while since ive been here I lowkey wish there was another problem w/ ao3 I miss talking to everyone here

BlackDragonBardBurndCloudF

Oooooooo

Luna

Uh oh

lilyclouds

oh god not again

Yuri

Internet archive is down but this archive is not

Yuri

We are so cooked

Yuri

Aaaaaaaa

Yuri

I can still hear their voices sometimes

Yuri

It’s too good at its job :(

Yuri

Realllll

ao3 needer

aaaaaaa

Sockeye

Guys we are so back. Ao3 just posted on insta that they were having problems

比嘉茜音

hhh

msloqn

Does anyone else keep getting a retry error

•Melancholy Hearts•

Just once. For like 30 minutes. Pretty please take a nap Ao3.

•Melancholy Hearts•

I miss you all chat... sigh. </3

Loon Luna

Are you getting login problem too? Or am i the only one??

Elizabeth Madan

I’m so glad I just uploaded my fic before all the lag and other stuff just started

licktheinsideofmymouth

meowsauce

Luna

Thought it was down... but it was just my Internet because I was downloading a Digimon game

Sockeye

Praying ao3 goes down

Jennifer L. Brewer

One specific story is not allowing me to download so I can get the newest chapter.

•Melancholy Hearts•

It's Been 10000 years... I have not seen a single soul since that fateful day... how I wish to reunite with everyone...

Luna

I miss how active this place used to be

Sockeye

Marked as spam?! wow Down detector. Im lowk talking to myself rn lol. I feel like that squidward meme where hes going crazy and a mom in the foreground is covering her kid's eyes

Natasha Kala

Maybe it's the VPN issues on certain browsers some are using? Just a guess.

•Melancholy Hearts•

They should make an Artfight downdetector page... anyways hi!! How are you all?? :D

Yuri

It’s still up for me but I’m seeing it’s down for some people so just checking in!

Natasha Kala

Seems to be working fine for me.

Sockeye

The Pitt. Time to work a 14 hour shift and slowly lose our sanity!!!

Butch Jason Todd

what kind of pits are we talking about cause this can get real kinky

Sockeye

NOTHINGS LOADING PROPERLY. Secretly hoping it will go down for a bit so I can talk to you guys.

Sockeye

Hi Jason Todd. you been to any pits lately

Luka

Why isn't stuff not loading up properly whenever I try to go and read the next chapter 🧍🏻‍♀️😭

•Melancholy Hearts•

It does... good for you for getting out, but please, just once come back and tell me how you're doing, I miss you. :[

•Melancholy Hearts•

Oh no.

Bleeding Tree

my bookmark page keeps hitting me with a retry later, anyone else getting that?

Graceluvbug37

Me too. It keeps happening to me over and over. I don't have a vpn, so I don't understand what the problem is and why it keeps doing it. It's been happening constantly for the past few days

Graceluvbug37

Anyone else having constant Shields Up issues? It's been happening excessively to me for the past few days. It gets to a point 😭 but I haven't seen ao3 post anything about it

𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡.𝔣𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔰

My bookmarks won’t load is anyone else having this issue?

Butch Jason Todd

bookmarks wont load for me which is pretty annoying when thats usually my way of finding good fics :^/

Butch Jason Todd

anyway

Butch Jason Todd

i forgot i was butch jason todd

Janet Pace

It's not literally loading omggggggg

Janet Pace

My ao3 isn't working either, idk why 😭

gramaryegrrl

WHY CANT THIS BE A ONE AND DONE VERIFICATION I ALREADY PROVED IM NOT A ROBOT LIKE 5 MILLION TIMES ALREADY

gramaryegrrl

omg literally restarted my phone and its still glitching i might throw myself out a window

gramaryegrrl

hello...... is anyone there

gramaryegrrl

guys help i literally cant get past the shields cause the captcha glitched and now its not showing PLEASE I NEED THIS MY MOMS KINDA HOMELESS

Sockeye

AO3 being slow againnnnnn

Natasha Kala

Um, what happened to my previous comment?

Natasha Kala

Okay, so the website decided to be agonizingly slow just for loading a page, like, the old original dial up days before Broadband and speeding internet even existed, but much slower. Then after a while it worked normally again. It's already bad enough for Fanfiction.Net suffering severe glitches but now A03 as well?