AO3s outage has exposed a growing divide between fanfiction authors and readers

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, but the fandom discourse is thriving.It's been six days since Archive of Our Own (AO3), the internet's beloved fanfiction repository, went offline following a n

AO3 outage: Fanfiction site could be down for 4 weeks. Fans are not OK.

AO3 says restoring the fanfiction archive could take two to four weeks. Fans are panicking and sharing backup archives to survive the outage.

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