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

We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down, which seem to be related to the previous incident. We will update when we have more information!

Date posted: November 12, 2025 AO3 has recently seen a rise in guest spambot comments making false accusations about work creators or other users. For example, they may claim that a particular user is...