Why Was Ao3 Down 2024 Season. Ao3 exists in part because someone who hosted an entire fandom's archive decided, after getting religiously converted, they were going to delete everything without warning and stop. (17:58 utc march 28, 2024) doing the gentlest possible thing to help out our database server:

Reminder that the archive will be down for 90 minutes of maintenance at 16:45 utc (about 25 minutes from now)! I never have to worry about ao3’s it issues causing me to lose a chapter.