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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

＼(￣▽￣)／＼(￣▽￣)／＼(￣▽￣)／＼(￣▽￣)／

Rat

Now we can all sleep in peace thank u ao3

Moona

I’ll see you all next week 🫩

napoleon

Was nice catching up with you guys hopefully we won't have to anytime soon

Seonghwa Mars

BYE GUYS

ephasia

soapghost

Melissa Harrell

Yay!

atlas

SOMEONE GET THE FIREWORKS

delta

HAVE A GOOD DAY EVERYONE THIS WAS FUN I'M GOING BACK TO READING ABOUT LESBIANS!

Emporer

PRAISE BE!!!

Moona

PRAISE BE

Seonghwa Mars

OMG YAYYYY

mr business

HHOORAY

millieee

NICE KNOWING YOU GUYS IVE GOT SOME BYLER TOFINISH

Vertex

PRAISE BE!!!!!

Emporer

ITS BACK HALELUJA

Soup

THANK YOU AO3 GODS

Chaos Control

Its back ill miss u guys 🤤🤤

Duff

Ditching ya'll to go back to reading :P

its back Goodnight everyone

Himizu_Yutaro

AO3 IS BACK !!!!

delta

ITS BACK !!!

napoleon

ITS BACK YAYY

Nana supremacy<3

It's back Huzzah!

napoleon

Omg for me too

Moona

I GENUINELY CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE AO3 (continues to take it)🫩

evtadk

for me at least

Chaos Control

Omg wait 🥹

Emporer

This is the first tinme i was desperate enough to bother making an account on here xD

𐔌 . 𝓔ira ! ୧

peak mentioned

napoleon

Actually??

Himizu_Yutaro

I think it worka again?

does anyone like narumitsu 👀👀👀

evtadk

lol its back

Chaos Control

Papa is NOT sleeping tonight if he doesn’t get his fanfics

Rian lainy

Omg same. What your favorite fic

maplesyrup

I LOVE YOU GUYS

why are you shaking that guy

Vertex

I was JUST reading a Yakuza x Persona 5 fic LMAOOO

millieee

can't talk. they're trying to overthrow the empire again

Emporer

Hopefully if it aint up im gonna cry TwT

atlas

me too twin

Cloudy

okay goodnight guys im gonna hope ao3 is back when i wake up 🩷🩷🩷 dont go insane without meee

Nana supremacy<3

Oh fr? Hi again then!

mr business

SO TRUE PHM I NEED YOU

Rian lainy

Drop the fic name!

maplesyrup

shakes you upside down and coins fall out

atlas

BLOODYMARY MENTIONED

napoleon

Omg girll we were here together last time too, small world

do any of u guys like yakuza games 🥹

Emporer

Czech republic hbu?

swagatron

please don't make me go to tumblr sweet mother of pearl

Seonghwa Mars

LMAOO ME TO

atlas

hell

mr business

5am here

susu

First time experiencing ao3 being live, kinda nervous ٩(◕‿◕)۶

napoleon

So where's everybody from

Nana supremacy<3

Should I alert the people i befriended on here last time that I became mutuals with on Tumblr?

atlas

my sharplow..no..

Rat

Nothing like AO3 being down to really bring the community together

Himizu_Yutaro

Jason todd x danny phantom but jason doesn't believe in ghosts also slowburn

PyraMan1ac

I have found my new favorite flavor of people its all of you, by the way. We are all coping so hard rn

Emporer

I feel that in my bones let me go back to my atla fanfics i dont wanna read dracula TwT

Aaronn

Im crying it was just fine what happened</3

Vertex

You know what, its 3am where I am, so maybe this was for the best

Cloudy

PLEASE BRO I JUST STARTED A NEW FIC 😭😭😭

atlas

me too bro me too

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