Is Archive of Our Own down?
Critical outage reported
From www.otwstatus.org · checked 43 seconds ago · every minute
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As of 03:39 UTC on 12 November 2026, Archive of Our Own's status page reports a critical outage.
- Last problem
- Going on now
- Problems, last 30 days
- 4 (2 critical)
- Typical incident
- 4 h 15 min
- Longest in 90 days
- 11 h 31 min · 21 Oct
AO3 Down for Maintenance
CriticalStarted 14 days ago, affecting Archive of Our Own.
Read the updates on www.otwstatus.org ↗Uptime
Archive of Our Own, last 30 days
49.97 %
Biggest dip: Archive of Our Own, 331.9 h of critical on Oct 29.
Incidents
Started in the last 7 days
0
This week Week before
No incidents this week. The last one: Archive of Our Own, critical on Oct 29.
Recovery
Median time back online
4 h 15 min
0 of 3 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.
Components 4
1 with issues
- Archive of Our Own Critical
- Fanlore
- Transformative Works and Cultures
- OTW Website
Last 90 days
4 incidents in 48 days tracked · no reported issues 67.9% of the time · typical incident 4 h 15 min
Recent incidents
Times in UTC
- AO3 Down for Maintenance 29 min
Maintenance - AO3 Emails, History, and Search Updates Delayed 4 h 15 min
Issue - Fanlore Downtime 11 h 31 min Critical
- AO3 Experiencing Issues 1 h 49 min Issue
Having issues right now
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Critical
More in Social & Community
All 35 in Social & Community
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Archive of Our Own’s official status page at www.otwstatus.org every minute and keeps 90 days of what changed. We don’t test Archive of Our Own ourselves, so a problem shows here once Archive of Our Own reports it.
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