Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for 'Up to 4 Weeks'
The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.
Covered by 4 publishers within 2 hours of the first report.
Summary from TechCrunch.
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404 Media Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for 'Up to 4 Weeks' · Samantha Cole
CNET AO3 Suffers Major Outage: Possibly No Fanfic for 2 Weeks or Longer · Lori Grunin
TechCrunch Fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) could be offline for up to 4 weeks after security incident · Amanda Silberling
Engadget Fan fiction website AO3 is down, and it could take weeks to recover · staff@engadget.com (Ian Carlos Campbell)
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