The extended shutdown of popular fan fiction site Archive of Our Own, or AO3, has revealed a rift between commercially minded writers and dedicated amateurs.
Technology
The creator behind AO3.life, a vibe-coded website that scraped the Archive of Our Own fanfiction repository and re-sold content as AI audiobooks, said they received over 2,000 takedown requests during the single day the website was live. The real AO3 platform is still suffering a partial system outage after announcing some lengthy downtime last Thursday. [Link: Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day | https://www.404media.co/vibe-coded-ao3-clone-site-down-after-fanfic-authors-buried-it-with-2-000-takedown-notices-in-a-single-day/ | 404 Media]
Technology
Fanworks hub Archive of Our Own is no stranger to downtime, but an as-yet-unexplained outage of potentially up to a month — announced on the site’s status page — is going to send a lot of fanfic writers scrambling: > We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. If that does happen, there may be times when the site has to be brought down temporarily until this is fully resolved. Please stay tuned for further info. [Link: AO3 Down for Maintenance | https://www.otwstatus.org/incidents/g12jnxck9g6h | OTW Status]
Archive of Our Own, the popular online home of fan fiction readers and writers, has bad news for its community.
Australia & Pacific
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