Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks

Archive of Our Own is offline while the Organization for Transformative Works carries out maintenance. The status updates trace a change in the expected duration: at 07:13 UTC on October 29, 2026, the organization reported that AO3 was down for maintenance; at 09:03 UTC, it said work was underway and was expected to take at least 12 hours, possibly longer. By 17:41 UTC, the estimate had expanded substantially, with service restoration expected to take around two weeks and potentially as long as four.

The organization hopes it can restore AO3 in a limited, degraded state sooner than that full-resolution timeline. That possibility is not a promise of uninterrupted access: if the site returns early, it may need to be taken offline temporarily at times while the underlying maintenance is completed. No technical cause or further details about the work are given in the updates. The incident affects AO3 specifically, and the organization says it will provide additional information as available. For users, the central point is that the outage may last far beyond the initial estimate, with a partial return possible before normal service is fully restored.