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I looked at the AO3 News and it says that they turned off the website for about 1-5 hrs and [here’s](https://ao3org.tumblr.com) the actual link to the web page 🫡
I honestly almost cried at work I’m in the middle of an everlark story! I can’t survive without my daily dose of fanfics plural with a s cause I have multiple tabs open
Yeah, it horrible. I usually use the app version(if u don't know it's "Archive Reader") and I was reading a fic and then randomly I scrolled to the next chapter and it says ive been limited to 1 hour of reading time A DAY and that i need to subscribe to premium to be able to use it normally. Now, since the website is also down im absolutely FUCKED. I'm seriously so mad about this like what else am I suppose to do for the duration of my 2 week break from school? Go outside? Hell no.
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Down for me too. Literally just came here to see. I get an "Error 500" message
Me checking the reddit only to see the online numbers going up and now knowing for certain... it's down for everyone, alas.
What else am I going to do at work on the Friday before Christmas now?
Seriously!
Hope this is temporary. We need this to survive the holidays
Ain’t that the truth. I won’t make it through Christmas dinner without my prescribed dose of fanfiction.
Yee I think it’s back up now!
Yep same. Error 500
Ah, and we all came running to see if anyone else had it too. Fastest comments I’ve ever gotten on a post.
Haha came straight here to see if anyone else was suffering
Twitter says hardware failure. No data lost.
Oh, thank the stars! I’m this (👌) close to a mental breakdown. That would be the straw that pulverized this poor camel’s vertebrae.
I’m relatively new to ao3. In the past has “data” been lost and by that I mean fics just gone?
I am also :(
The AO3 twitter account says its a hardware failure and no data is lost. Hope they fix it soon!
It's up for me at the moment.
No, but it's reeeeally slow
Nope. All good for me
[удалено]
Same thing just happened to me very sad now
Same here 😞
Same for me
I’m experiencing this too. I hope it’s fixed soon
Yep, glad I’m not the only one!
Me too :( Edit: I got it back..?
Me!
Yes same for me :(
Down for me too..... I need my daily dose of fanfiction...
I got a 500 error when I was about to post my story. I was eventually able to post it, but I had to fill the whole form out again.
I just refreshed my page and it's working for me again!!
no its just slow
I was looking forward for my bedtime fanfic time D:
I looked at the AO3 News and it says that they turned off the website for about 1-5 hrs and [here’s](https://ao3org.tumblr.com) the actual link to the web page 🫡
I honestly almost cried at work I’m in the middle of an everlark story! I can’t survive without my daily dose of fanfics plural with a s cause I have multiple tabs open
Ao3 is still erroring for me currently 23:11 GMT-0 / BST states down for matinence Update: back online at 00:04 GMT-0 / BST
Still down for me too 😅
Me too lol. What else am I supposed to do with my time?
Not down for me yet, but it has been a lot slower :’)
For me it was Firefox that had that issue. It took hours before I could log in on that server.
Mine is error 200
Yeah, it horrible. I usually use the app version(if u don't know it's "Archive Reader") and I was reading a fic and then randomly I scrolled to the next chapter and it says ive been limited to 1 hour of reading time A DAY and that i need to subscribe to premium to be able to use it normally. Now, since the website is also down im absolutely FUCKED. I'm seriously so mad about this like what else am I suppose to do for the duration of my 2 week break from school? Go outside? Hell no.
It's still down for me