--- title: Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for... description: Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline for what was meant to be routine overnight maintenance and now says it could take up to 4 weeks to come back. The site's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks-uf67zpolo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks | daily.dev og:description: Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline for what was meant to be routine overnight maintenance and now says it could take up to 4 weeks to come back. The site's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks-uf67zpolo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uf67ZpOLO.png og:image:alt: Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline for what was meant to be routine overnight maintenance and now says it could take up to 4 weeks to come back. The site's status page estimates service restoration will take around 2 weeks, possibly up to 4, though it hopes to restore a degraded version sooner. AO3 is run by the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, which depends on volunteers and donations. The outage is unlikely to be related to last week's PHP vulnerabilities, since AO3 runs on Ruby on Rails, not PHP. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why is Archive of Our Own (AO3) down for so long? AO3 went offline for what was supposed to be routine overnight maintenance, but the Organization for Transformative Works now estimates service restoration will take around 2 weeks and could take up to 4 weeks. The site hopes to restore a degraded version sooner. The outage is unrelated to the recent critical PHP vulnerabilities, since AO3 runs on Ruby on Rails rather than PHP. _Following a major outage at your own project? daily.dev surfaces status updates and root-cause writeups as they emerge._ ### Is the AO3 outage related to the recent PHP security vulnerabilities? No, the AO3 outage is unlikely to be related to the critical PHP flaws disclosed by OpenAI and Google Wiz tools, which affected the roughly 70% of the internet running on PHP. Archive of Our Own is built on Ruby on Rails, a different framework, so it falls outside that affected majority. _Developers tracking which stacks are exposed after a major language vulnerability can follow the fallout on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Archive of Our Own](https://daily.dev/posts/archive-of-our-own-nvxuddm6s) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Office Of Transformative Works Performance Audit](https://daily.dev/posts/office-of-transformative-works-performance-audit-wxmzpvmcp) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AOL was down \(1996\)](https://daily.dev/posts/aol-was-down-1996--8qyatmuoa) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#rails](https://daily.dev/tags/rails) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks-uf67zpolo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Fan fiction site Archive of Our Own could be offline for up to 4 weeks","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks-uf67zpolo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fan-fiction-site-archive-of-our-own-could-be-offline-for-up-to-4-weeks-uf67zpolo"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T20:47:00.155Z","dateModified":"2026-10-30T22:44:38.186Z","description":"Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline for what was meant to be routine overnight maintenance and now says it could take up to 4 weeks to come back. 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