AO3 estimates restoration could take up to four weeks
Culture · First reported 29 Oct, 18:58 · Updated 19:28
Archive of Our Own went offline for maintenance, and its operator now estimates restoration could take around two weeks or as long as four. OTW says it hopes to restore the site sooner in a degraded state.
- AO3 went offline during maintenance; OTW later estimated restoration would take around two weeks, potentially up to four weeks.
- OTW said it hoped to bring the site back sooner in a degraded state, with possible temporary outages before the issue is fully resolved.
- One report says AO3 runs on Ruby on Rails rather than PHP, making a connection to recently reported PHP flaws unlikely.
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- Estimated restoration
- Around two weeks; potentially up to four weeks.
- Operator
- The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW).
- Possible earlier return
- OTW said it hoped to restore service sooner in a degraded state.
- Works and fandoms
- More than 18.4 million works across over 82,900 fandoms, as of September.
- Technology cited
- Ruby on Rails; TechCrunch says the site is not among those running PHP.
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