AO3 outage could keep the archive offline for up to four weeks
Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks
Archive of Our Own went down for maintenance on October 29, 2026, and the Organization for Transformative Works now estimates restoration will take about two weeks, possibly as long as four. Engineers hope to bring the site back sooner in a degraded state, though it may need to be taken down again intermittently until the problem is fully resolved.
We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has to be brought down temporarily until this is fully resolved.