Following guidance from our vendor, we've brought #AO3 back online to help troubleshoot. We expect the site will go back down, although we don't know when that will happen. If you choose to post or update your works while AO3 is up, we strongly recom...

We have made some adjustments based on recommendations from our database vendor and will continue to monitor their impact on system stability.

#AO3 is back up! We appreciate your patience. We've got our protections against bot traffic turned up a bit higher than usual, so some users may experience problems if they're using a VPN or similar tools.

We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down.

We are continuing to investigate reports of slowness and errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down.

AO3 is currently down. We do not have an estimated return time currently. We're looking into it with one of our third-party support providers and will update when we have more information. Thank you for your patience!

We've identified the problem and are working on a fix. We expect to remain down for several more hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience!

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

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