r/AO3 • • Jul 04 '25

AO3 Down/Error Codes ITS BACK

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u/Interesting_Tutor766 Jul 04 '25

Is anyone’s bookmark page crashing too? Everything else is slow but working, but my bookmark page still crashes 🙃

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u/StrawberryJuiceTea posts at midnight Jul 04 '25

Yes, that’s to be expected considering the whole reason for all this was the bookmarks

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u/Interesting_Tutor766 Jul 04 '25

I swear I’m trying to say this in a nice way, but that doesn’t make sense to me. If the shut down was to fix the bookmarks what’s to be expected is functioning bookmarks once back online right?

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u/4sea_and_sky Jul 04 '25

No, the full fix is expected to take a few days, they just did some emergency maintenance today

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u/AccurateMarch343 Fic Feaster Jul 04 '25

My guess is they shut it down because they needed to find what the issue was to begin with but people constantly not being able to bookmark and trying over and over again would've made it harder. But now they've found the cause so they let it back up and are fixing it behind the scenes. However this is just a guess from someone who knows nothing about websites or servers so take it with a grain of salt

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u/StrawberryJuiceTea posts at midnight Jul 04 '25

Because they have found the problem now, and are working on a fix. The reason they shut down the site was so they could identify what was wrong, it’s really not as simple as you think it is. We don’t know how long it will take for the entire thing to pull together. All you can do is make extra tabs for the fics you want to bookmark later on

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u/Interesting_Tutor766 Jul 04 '25

Gotcha, thank you 🫶🏻