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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?

g1itchy c(:

nvm we good

g1itchy c(:

is it working for y'all........

BrokenSpawn

C'mon, A03, LEMME IN

Natasha Kala

Works fine to me, and I was on it almost an hour ago.

maple

let me in ao3 you know you want to

☆★ Engie!★☆

llittle does vro know theyre way better now

clayslay

aaaa let me read my fics man

Sofycrystalrose

Does anyone else have a weird looking screen that's making everything I read smaller

Sofycrystalrose

Is anyone else getting a weird screen when reading

clayslay

yhea

clayslay

hi, any one else getting bombbarded with ssl handshake fails today

EnderKnight

Anyone else getting the SSL handshake error?

sobbing

tf is the “retry later” page

ao3 needer

who archiving they own today??

siy

OOmg it's u

Ceu

Just me? I keep getting a screen that says I should try to clear my cache, but I already did that.

Foowashear

Anyone else experiencing issues

Yuri

It feels like looking a friend group chat after all you graduated like nooo come back but also good for you for getting out

ao3 needer

HI YURI!! ive been checking in a lot but havent commented much. goin through some stuff BUT IM BACK TO STAY READY RO READ AND PLAY!!

ao3 needer

HI YURI!! ive been checking in every now and then but ive been going through a lot and havent been commenting much but im BACK AND HERE TO PLAY AND READ!!

Yuri

HI SOCKEYE HI AO3 NEEDER!!!! I’m glad that I’m known to lurk around these parts!!!

•Melancholy Hearts•

Day something with no Ao3 down incidents... I am so happy but also I miss you all.

ao3 needer

HI SOCKEYE (hi yuri if yuri sees this)

Sockeye

ALL MY FRIENDS I MISS U

Kapu the chuuastu addict

It says AO3 won’t work and sends me to the CLOUDFAIR error screen

Aw4kee

Retry now...? Heh... Like... The famous NAKISO song featuring Hatsune Miku...? Heh...

Aw4kee

I cannot log in, like i downloaded one of the apps (IK ao3 doesn't have apps, i use the unnoficial ones bcs idk) and tried to log in on Google, Chrome AND Bing. Nothing worked...💔💔 Is anyone else having ts problem??

Trixy

10 hours isnt even that bad 🤭

ABBI

I don’t WANNA RETRY LATER I WANNA RETRY NOW

ABBI

Nvm it’s just the bookmarks freaking out, why now when I FINALLY need to look through them

ABBI

Ao3 is a CHUD!! Let me in pls

Chibikou

It's SO slow

Slowly going insane

Trixy

I like how it fixes itself to immediately show me bot comments. Correlation perhaps.

Trixy

Little laggy...

Elizabeth Madan

No and I was just posting my may-whump series 😭

Sam

Me at 11:50p when I should be sleeping: what do you mean bad gateway???

Sockeye

WAIT YURI WE BOTH MISSED IT?!?!

Yuri

Shoot did I miss it again?? I gotta get a notification thing that tells me when ao3 is down sighhh

Kimchaewon'salien

Bro it's been blocking me from reading stories, like wtf?!!

wooyovnxq

i hope the app starts working as soon as possible bc im going crazy

dmd

This is my first time using this app and i cant even read ONE fanfic since its not working 💔

Tara Mccann

I hope they fix the issue soon

Tara Mccann

I hope they fix the issue soon I'm stuck on too it was just working just fine yesterday

Tara Mccann

I hope they fix the issue soon i really want to read some fanfics

Mxrgyyy

Back in my day, I remember getting great AO3 outage of 2024. Over 10 hours of downtime. We were all in pain here on AO3 downdetector.

screaming crying

no robot is reading this much fanfiction

breanna lee

I can't even read my fanfic because it's verifying if I'm a robot then saying I'm stuck like wtf?

707’s gf

IT HAVE BEEN A WHOLE 4HOURS DUDE

707’s gf

I NEED MY FICS NOOOWWWW

707’s gf

i want to read myyyy ficcsss

Mikovampirr

Still can't access the site

Mikovampirr

Glad to know it's not just me though

Mikovampirr

Shields are up can't access the site

Trixy

Didn't alert us well enough it seems

Trixy

I wad drawing and I missed you guys D: My arm is very tired

Lena

Somewhy I cannot read anything at second. I feared that when it said 'AO3 might block your access'. Seeing its not only me got me a bit calmed down

susu

same 😅

707’s gf

its still not working for meee wahah

Crouton

Yippeeeee!!!! Y'all's comments helped me not go crazy while it was down thanks guys ^_^

Laona

wait did my reply make it to the right person disqus hello edit: ok nvm i think we good

Astra Blackstar

Well that was quick, nicely done ao3

maplesyrup

toodilonies people RAUAURIRHDJJGHH

Laona

YAYYY LETS GO

Breanna Mcgonigal

NVM ITS BACK UP

Nicden

Pink Ribbon Scars (That Never Forget) BearingSharpTeeth !! + a transmasc OC 😝

Astra Blackstar

Same, weird thing is a storm just stared and is really intense so I thought it was my internet

Breanna Mcgonigal

Spiderman/redhood with extra Spidery Spiderman and maybe also a undead idk because sh!t crashed before they said

PyraMan1ac

LESBIANSSS

maplesyrup

where did it go im scared

atlas

BYEBYEEE!!!

Nana supremacy<3

See you next time you lovely people!

Slowly going insane

Omg guys go press entire work on whatever your reading in case it goes down again

Laona

it was "mutual pining speedrun" by Dopamine_Knight, from the series "live footage of bruce wayne emotionally imploding" and it's pretty good!! was on a reread going to the next part of the series and then ao3 went down 🫡

susu

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