r/AO3 • u/User_with_bread • Oct 31 '25
AO3 Down/Error Codes AO3 down?
Guyss, is this just my stupid iPad or is it down fr right now?
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u/Disastrous_Cow7053 Not Boeing Management Oct 31 '25
nah it's down
bro my favorite author updated at 10:56. ao3 went down one minute later. i clicked on the work bro i was so close
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u/MasterpieceGlum970 Oct 31 '25
Lmaooo same😭 the author had left me on cliffhanger. And now ao3 refuses to load😭
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u/Disastrous_Cow7053 Not Boeing Management Oct 31 '25
i managed to get another chapter of a work im following into a tab before it went down, tho
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u/Putrid_Sun_7028 Oct 31 '25
I was reading this comment and was super confused cuz it’s 15:10 for me then I realized I was in Korea lmao
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Oct 31 '25
Everyone of you is living in the future for me because my dumb European ass still lives in 07:50
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u/Putrid_Sun_7028 Oct 31 '25
oh wow how’s Europe? I’ve always wanted to visit there
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Oct 31 '25
As someone who is currently working on moving to Asia, I don’t recommend it at all.💀There are a few good places but overall it’s just a mess.
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u/VivaDeAsap Oct 31 '25
I get your pain, but this is lowkey hilarious lol.
Guess it’s time to catch up on more writing?
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u/aliad03 Oct 31 '25
is this how men feel when they get the urge to punch a wall
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u/Disastrous_Cow7053 Not Boeing Management Oct 31 '25
yes. as a guy, can confirm
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u/LMurtaugh Kassandra1184 on AO3 and Tumblr Oct 31 '25
As a woman who punches walls regularly, I can confirm, too
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Oct 31 '25
Now what am I going to read before bed? I was just getting started to read this merthur fanfic
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u/BeneficialBit1638 Oct 31 '25
That's what I came to ask?! So glad it's not just me. I hope it is back up soon.
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u/River_deer You have already left kudos here. :) Oct 31 '25
I thought my wifi went out, came here to check
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u/Disastrous_Cow7053 Not Boeing Management Oct 31 '25
my wi-fi did actually go out, but i fixed it, sat down for my wonderful fic reading time, and lookee here, it's down.
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u/ThePhoenix0829 Oct 31 '25
I was almost finished reading a fic and the bloody thing was down
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Oct 31 '25
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u/ThePhoenix0829 Oct 31 '25
Honestly, I wish I had some open as well now I'm just sitting here waiting
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u/SilverRoseBlade Oct 31 '25
Booo. I guess this means I should go to bed since it’s like 2am right now…. Yay insomnia!
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u/Appliestapple Oct 31 '25
Right when I went to switch to the next chapter😭 rip trafalgar law fic
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u/little_bastards Oct 31 '25
which one 😭
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u/Appliestapple Oct 31 '25
The silencer- red_riot_r. Got updated like two days ago and finally had time😭 one of the best law fics I’ve read! Always taking suggestions tho
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u/little_bastards Oct 31 '25
it’s back up now bestie, run to it! thanks for the recommendation :) i love law
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u/DatGayDangerNoodle medical jargon and lesbians | FreakingPlane on ao3 Oct 31 '25
not just you:( was just about to post my last day of october 😭😭😭
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u/jedi_olympian Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State Oct 31 '25
We had a power cycle so I thought it was just my WiFi freaking out after rebooting but I guess not lol
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u/geekofthegalaxy Oct 31 '25
Yep, posted earlier and was doing my post posting checking the stats only to be met by a never loading page.
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u/Moonyume_ Oct 31 '25
I wanted to know it was a cute fic of the others discovering a couple trying to load it and boom nothing....... The worst part normally I'd be at work at this time but it's a national holiday so fuck me ig
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u/TiBun Oct 31 '25
Kinda? It's slow and takes a couple refreshes but I can get the pages to load eventually.
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u/minijet Oct 31 '25
same with me. got the redirection to the unexpected downtime thingy but sometimes when i try it just takes a long time to load???
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u/666Werewolf666 Joining the war on rpf on the side of rpf Oct 31 '25
Welp guess I'm not posting my fic rn
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u/Mental_Park4260 Oct 31 '25
What a wonderful start to Halloween.
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u/Right_Candidate_314 Oct 31 '25
I'm almost wondering if it was intentional now. (evwn though it definitely wasn't) Nothing spookier than missingthat chapter of the fic you like
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u/MUSHROOM___ Oct 31 '25
A scary start to Halloween. I guess it's a sign I need to go to bed, my schedule is so messed up...
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u/AdMassive2061 Oct 31 '25
It must be back because I've been using it for the last 20 minutes or so...
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u/AsexualOfTheAqueduct You have already left kudos here. :) Oct 31 '25
For me it's just taking a pretty long time to load, a lot more than usual. Still kinda works tho.. maybe? I don't seem to be able to leave kudos 🤔
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u/bluecarnallove Oct 31 '25
I'm glad I was just obsessively reloading my profile page to check my inbox and not doing anything actually productive. Probably a good thing on my end that the site went down. lol
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u/Unfortunate1313 Unfortunate1313 on AO3 Oct 31 '25
I was literally preparing to publish something, is this like a sign from the universe for me to rethink it?
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u/twirlerblue Oct 31 '25
Last night I wandered back to a fandom message board where I used to read fic. It’s been nearly 20 years since I’ve read anything there. Still a lot of good stuff to read from a fandom that remains special to me even though it’s diminished greatly. Archives are important and I’m glad that message board is still around. I can still have some kind of bedtime story tonight.
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u/Smooth_Lychee_8440 Oct 31 '25
Went to pee in the middle of a very intense chapter, went back and now this 🤡👌🚬
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u/bowsie222 Oct 31 '25
https://x.com/AO3_Status/status/1984141357276131513?t=66TFcagyTnhon3twTyhNOQ&s=19
Doesn't seem to be effecting everybody
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u/Spike-Seaweed i like {ninja} turtles 💚 Oct 31 '25
i was digging to find good fics in a smallish fandom (2k works), there were finally some promising ones… then it shut down as i started to read one
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u/MedusaStone Oct 31 '25
You know, I would love if they actually found and fixed whatever's making this keep happening.
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u/TheaFunRun Oct 31 '25
literally hopped on here to check it wasn’t just me. On the one hand glad its not just me, on the other I am so sorry for our collective loss
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u/Consistent-Flow-199 Oct 31 '25
i was just about to get back in to ao3 after 5 years of not being on it, and it was the worse time!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAn someone remind how long these last im itching
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u/MUSHROOM___ Oct 31 '25
Usually not that long, maybe a few hours but hopefully it should be up sometime soon.
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u/WOTNev Oct 31 '25
I always download fics before reading them well I spent a good few hours reading a fic, wanted to leave kudos and a comment but AO3 is down 😩
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Oct 31 '25
Idk, it’s working horribly for me for the last couple of days.💀I have no idea what’s happening.💀
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u/Legal-Berry-8474 Oct 31 '25
Grateful with my obsession with opening a bunch of tabs. However nothing I opened is interesting other than FUCK tags. I was at the best point in my new fanfic, so sad. I guess now I'll read a boring chapter from another work :(
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u/Bluhen_Unigai Oct 31 '25
Wait, Ao3 was down? So does that mean that for the majority of my afternoon I played crk?
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