One day I'm going to disappear from your life, not because I got tired of being your friend, but because I can't bear to be just your friend. #unrequitedlove
#AO3's February releases included new admin tools for our Support and Policy & Abuse teams, as well as a bunch of challenge and collection fixes and a host of small updates and improvements. We also upgraded to Rails 8 and Elasticsearch 9! Read more at https://t.co/kdQU0YkQI6
#AO3 is exiting open beta! Learn more about how far we've come since launching open beta, our future plans for improvement, and what you can do to contribute at https://t.co/xAlLtCO54Y
#OTW Systems volunteers have published a postmortem about the issues behind the unplanned #AO3 downtime in early March. Check it out on AO3: https://t.co/l8TdtG7AJ0
#AO3 and #Fanlore are back! Our data center says they have disabled the upstream provider that was causing the outage, but we are continuing to monitor the situation.
In January, #AO3 made major improvements to our bookmark search, making it possible to sort and filter bookmarks by word count, and deployed several batches of fixes to strengthen site security and improve performance. Read more at https://t.co/xG94LfyldW
The fix we applied 24 hours ago appears to be holding, so we are resolving this incident. We thank everyone for their patience!
For future status updates, please refer to https://t.co/DzB49JzRsN
We do not currently have an estimated time for when we will be back up, but we expect it to be multiple hours at minimum. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you when we know more. Refer to https://t.co/DzB49JzjDf for updates. (3/3)
If you choose to post or update your works while AO3 is up, we strongly recommend making sure you have a backup of any text you are attempting to post.
For updates, please refer to https://t.co/DzB49JzjDf (2/2)
We have made some adjustments based on recommendations from our database vendor and will continue to monitor their impact on system stability.
For updates, please refer to https://t.co/DzB49JzRsN
We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down, which seem to be related to the previous incident. We will update when we have more information!
We are aware that Yahoo Mail is not currently accepting emails from #AO3, and we are actively working to resolve the issue. We will update you when we know more!
Starting 24 hours from now, #AO3 will be down for about 15 hours while we make some improvements to searching bookmarks and series. More information: https://t.co/pUVJFV08ty
[update] Investigating: As of January 17, 2026, we're aware that some users are experiencing issues with comments being incorrectly marked as spam if they post in a language other than English. We are looking into this issue and worki… https://t.co/CVGhVoiVad
Our #AO3 Policy & Abuse committee has shared an update about the types of harassment messages bots are now leaving. Read the full post on Tumblr at https://t.co/e8ngNW2FvL
[update] Investigating: We are aware of issues with works taking a long time to appearing in listings (such as when looking at a tag or searching). We are investigating! https://t.co/vQp1AqcfYX
[update] Identified: We are aware of intermittent errors accessing #AO3, #Fanlore, and the OTW website. This is not a problem with our services directly, but with Cloudflare so we are unable to fix it. We encourage you to follow Cloud… https://t.co/DvVQrwimZE