Is Archive of Our Own down - October, 2026?
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is an open source, volunteer-run, non-profit organization dedicated to providing a safe and accessible online archive for fanworks such as fanfiction, fanart, and fanvids. It was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and has since grown to include millions of works from thousands of fandoms. AO3 offers a variety of features, including tagging, awards, and discussion forums, allowing users to easily find and share their favorite fanworks.
URL Checked:
https://archiveofourown.org/
Last Down:
not recently
Response Time:
2.38 ms.
Archive of Our Own outages reported by users in the last 24 hours
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This chart shows the number of Archive of Our Own outages/problems reported by users in the past 24 hours. All data in the chart is in the Europe/London time zone.
Recent Archive of Our Own User Reports
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May 16, 2026 - 09:57A visitor from Barcelona, Spain has reported a problem with Feed
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Apr 12, 2026 - 23:00A visitor from Wallington, United Kingdom has reported a problem with Feed
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Nov 18, 2025 - 13:12
A visitor from Wigan, United Kingdom has reported a problem with Feed
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Oct 31, 2025 - 06:09A visitor from San Antonio, United States has reported a problem with Feed
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Sep 11, 2025 - 19:16
A visitor from Weymouth, United States has reported a problem with Feed
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Aug 10, 2025 - 11:31A visitor from Dehradun, India has reported a problem with Posting
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Most common Archive of Our Own problems reported by users
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Posting
Archive of Our Own Outage Locations
Location
Reports
Last Reported
Wallington, England, GB
39
5 months ago
Bathgate, Scotland, GB
8
1 years ago
Baltimore, Maryland, US
2
1 years ago
Colombo, Western Province, LK
2
2 years ago
Cardiff, Wales, GB
2
2 years ago
Haarlem, North Holland, NL
1
2 years ago
Nuremberg, Bavaria, DE
1
2 years ago
Warsaw, Mazovia, PL
2
2 years ago
Columbus, New Jersey, US
1
2 years ago
Kronberg, Hesse, DE
1
2 years ago
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archiveofourown.org website response status history
Date and Time
Response Time
Status Code
Oct 11, 2026 - 16:07
2.38 ms.
200
Oct 11, 2026 - 08:36
2.33 ms.
200
Oct 10, 2026 - 19:35
1.27 ms.
200
Oct 10, 2026 - 13:23
1.19 ms.
200
Oct 09, 2026 - 18:26
1.2 ms.
200
Oct 09, 2026 - 03:54
2.13 ms.
200
Oct 08, 2026 - 19:06
2.2 ms.
200
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Weymouth, United States • 1 years agoJust not loading anything
Rachel
Leeds, United Kingdom • 1 years agoNot loading
Danderhall, United Kingdom • 1 years ago
Everything else in my tablet is working but when I try to access ao3 it says This site can't be reached.
Mimi
Muscat, Oman • 1 years agohttps://archiveofourown.org/ might be having issues, or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Tiger
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom • 1 years agoSays its too slow to make a connection
Michelle D.
Verdun, Canada • 2 years agoI've been getting error 503 for days now and I can't access my works, my bookmarks, my history/marked for later list and my collections on AO3. They told me to clear my browser's cache and I did it once but it didn't work and I'm not gonna risk it again 'cause I might lose my passwords. I contact them three times and nothing has been done. I'm not the only one. The "is AO3 down?" websites show that people have complained that AO3 is inaccessible or that they've received errors. Please someone ask the AO3 staff to do something. This will make it hard for people to post any new works to AO3 and to read the fics they saved on their marked for later list and their bookmarks. Please do something to fix this, this is the best fanfiction website and we don't want to not be able to use it anymore.
Padstow, United Kingdom • 2 years ago
slow
Bangkok, Thailand • 2 years ago
Received error 520
Sarah
Camden, United Kingdom • 2 years agoError 500
Mary
Warsaw, Poland • 2 years agoError 500 nothing opens
Kitty
Chippenham, United Kingdom • 2 years agoI keep getting three responses: "URL cant be found" "Your connection is not private" and "This site cannot be reached... IP address could not be found"
London, United Kingdom • 2 years ago
Network errir
Kanel
Tottenham, United Kingdom • 2 years agoDown for matenice
Coventry, United Kingdom • 2 years ago
Connection to the website is very slow