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AO3 is back after 17 days.

The Verge •
November 15, 2026 • 02:28 PM
• By Terrence O'Brien
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Archive of Our Own is live again after going down on October 29th, following a “security incident.” The site says it has no reason to believe user data was compromised, but it’s still investigating. It also wants everyone to know that, while some features are temporarily disabled and the site might load a little slowly, your data is still safe: > No AO3 data has been deleted. Your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are still safe. Draft deletion was successfully paused and no drafts have been deleted while AO3 was down. In addition, we are going to leave draft deletion paused for the next two weeks to allow users time to log back into their accounts and save copies of or publish their drafts.

AO3 is back after 17 days.

Archive of Our Own is live again after going down on October 29th , following a “ security incident. ” The site says it has no reason to believe user data was compromised, but it’s still investigating. It also wants everyone to know that, while some features are temporarily disabled and the site might load a little slowly, your data is still safe:

No AO3 data has been deleted. Your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are still safe. Draft deletion was successfully paused and no drafts have been deleted while AO3 was down. In addition, we are going to leave draft deletion paused for the next two weeks to allow users time to log back into their accounts and save copies of or publish their drafts.

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