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AO3 down?

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Archive of Our Own (AO3) is probably one of the biggest internet sites or fictions, there are millions of stories from almost every fandom you can think of. There is no need for introduction.

Recently, it was down for maintenance but now... It's almost been a day.


Official words:

Update - 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.
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I've seen:

"AO3's servers have basically been completely destroyed by the php vulnerability stuff, someone took advantage of it and cooked the website.

they have backups of everything so fics and accounts have not been lost, and accounts are not compromised, but they have to rebuild their entire infrastructure."


Two hours ago, they posted on their official Twitter account:

Earlier today, we detected evidence of a security incident on #AO3. We are still in the early stages of investigating. No AO3 data has been deleted. All your works, bookmarks, kudos, etc., are safe.
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Let's hope it doesn't take that long and it gets resolved soon.
 
Yeah, it sucks. Between A03's outages and HP Crossovers on fanfiction net being broken for so long and the obsession with turning Draco into a chick- I don't like the guy and even a pair of tits won't change my mind- this is probably the worst year for fanfiction I've had since I started reading em. At least QQ's still alright.
Well, and wtr lab which is what I've been reading more than not lately but they've got no smut.
 
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The site that had copied AO3... New
AO3 has been down for a few days, thus, a new name had come to light. It had essentially mirrored AO3's forum.

About 50% of the work from AO3 was available on this site.

It also charged money for audiobooks and claimed that the money "will reach"/reaches" the creators. Some people, including me, also published original works other than fanfictions which had also been mirrored and...

The site was called ao3 dot life.

Some authors sent email to AO3, I did too. And their reply was very swift (probably automated.)

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It was one person, who did this all by himself. Due to the mass take down requests, he purged the site entirely.

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