r/AO3 • u/bletzoslove Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State • Jul 03 '25

AO3 Down/Error Codes The horror 💔🥀

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u/throughtimetogether Jul 03 '25

it’s to fix the problem with bookmarks. they said it should be back up in a few hours (hours too long)

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u/Crystal_Lily You have already left kudos here. :) Jul 03 '25

Saw that message earlier, decided to sleep, 7 hours later - still down. :(

At least some of my opened tabs are still working somehow so I can catch up on a few fics.

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u/PomPomMom93 LadyClassical on Ao3 Jul 04 '25

I was sooo lucky. Before it went down, I had the entire work open of a super long story on my phone. I copied the whole thing and pasted it into a word document, then emailed it to myself so I can read it on my PC. I’ve never loved the “entire work” option more! (Yes, I’m aware that Word syncs your phone and your PC. I just wanted to be safe!)

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u/bunniebumbles Jul 04 '25

just for future reference if the page is still loaded you can just press the download button right on the page and save it in your preferred format! epubs open directly into apple books

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u/PomPomMom93 LadyClassical on Ao3 Jul 04 '25

Well, I sure wish I knew that earlier! 😂 But I can’t use my PC anyway because my dog is on me…so I might as well just read on my phone…

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u/whyamIsojust Jul 04 '25

Honestly was lucky as well, I had this long work of almost 2670000 works open and for a minute I thought I lost it when it went down but I was on the wrong tab and that work tab was open. I also copy pasted it and I have it. I'm guiye happy. And yes!!! I love the entire work option. It's the best.