Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks
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–Rank now
#25Peak rank
1Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 29, 2026First seen
On Hacker News
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- 10
- Comments
- 5
- Submitted by
- GeoAtreides
- Posted
- Oct 29, 2026
- Site
- otwstatus.org
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Trending history
Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 2 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #25 of 30, reached on Oct 29, 18:52 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 29, 18:52 UTC.
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Wonder if it's related to the Gitlab crisis (the regexp vulnerability in Ruby that hit them first). Ao3 seems to be a Ruby on Rails app.
2-4 weeks feels so absurd that I reread the alert twice thinking maybe they meant something different. Database problem into discovery of failed backups, perhaps? It'll be interesting to see the postmortem. I don't know much about their infrastructure.
Per reddit [1] the data is safe. Apparently they run bare metal that they own [2] so I'd assume their servers got compromised hard and they'll need to buy entirely new servers. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1xir586/comment/19rubn... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1xir586/comment/19ruc1...
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Is Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 29, 18:52 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks reached?
#25 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 29, 18:52 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Archive Of Our Own down for maintenance for 2 to 4 weeks been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (2 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
10 points and 5 comments; submitted by GeoAtreides on Oct 29, 2026.