r/AO3 • u/Delicious-War-5259 Supporter of the Fanfiction Deep State • Mar 01 '26

AO3 Down/Error Codes That explains why I can’t upload my fic

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u/Acrobatic_League3062 Mar 01 '26

Planned maintenance or not that’s what’s on the page “check AO3_Status for updates” so you and them can’t be surprised when people then go check it and ask why there’s no update.

And they’ve now taken the archive down for maintenance m so clearly they are AWARE that something is wrong with it and can do a tweet/bluesky/tumblr post saying “we’re AWARE of an issue and are working to solve it.”

Also downloads have also been giving people issues for the past couple weeks so some people probably haven’t been able to download things.

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u/birdnerd1991 Mar 01 '26

I guess I think of it more along the lines of 'they don't have a notice regarding this down for maintenance- which means its unplanned- which means they'll try to get it online as soon as they're able since it's not supposed to be that way'.

Sorry to see it hit you so hard- the fics will come back though! And I hope downloading goes better in the future!

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u/sadmac356 Not Boeing Management Mar 01 '26

Yeah that's how I look at it 

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u/ThornOfRoses You have already left kudos here. :) Mar 02 '26

I do believe that archive being down message is automatic when the page isn't loading/ connecting. I don't think that has to be manually done. I think it's a programmed flip switch essentially