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AO3 Goes Offline and Gives Its Readers an Unscheduled Cliffhanger
· New York time
Archive of Our Own, the fan fiction site known as AO3, could be offline for up to four weeks. Its data is reportedly intact, while the cause of the outage remains unknown. For a community built around reading and sharing stories, the wait is a particularly awkward interruption. Readers accustomed to checking for updates now have a different page to watch: the service's status. The archive may contain countless cliffhangers, but its most immediate one concerns when readers can get back to them.
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