AO3 status

Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is a non-profit repository where users publish and read fan-created fiction across thousands of different fandoms. The platform relies on a complex database architecture to manage filtering, search queries, and user comments, all of which can become unresponsive during periods of high traffic or server maintenance. When failures occur, readers often see persistent error screens or experience significant delays when trying to upload new chapters or access their personal reading history. Rimetry performs consistent checks on the site’s status from multiple locations to determine if these outages are localized or widespread.

Problems with AO3 can affect website, article pages, subscription & paywall independently.

AO3 (archiveofourown.org) is a news & reading service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.

Right now AO3 is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 516 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to archiveofourown.org are seeing it work normally.

Common causes of disruption for services like AO3 include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.