---
title: "Is Archive of Our Own down? Archive of Our Own status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/archiveofourown"
description: "Live Archive of Our Own status, what is affected right now, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Archive of Our Own down?

**Answer:** Yes, Archive of Our Own is experiencing a partial outage right now.

- Status: partial outage
- Checked: 2026-11-07T02:10:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Archive of Our Own says: Partial System Outage
- Official status page: https://www.otwstatus.org
- Website: https://archiveofourown.org

## Affected right now

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-29 | [AO3 Down for Maintenance](https://stspg.io/z9gl9f63wyyb) | critical | ongoing |

| Component | Status |
| --- | --- |
| [Archive of Our Own](/status/archiveofourown/archive-of-our-own.md) | major outage |

## Last 45 days

0 of 2 tracked days without issues.

| Day | Worst status |
| --- | --- |
| 2026-11-07 | partial outage |
| 2026-11-06 | partial outage |

## Recent incidents

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-29 | [AO3 Down for Maintenance](https://stspg.io/z9gl9f63wyyb) | critical | ongoing |
| 2026-10-23 | [AO3 Emails, History, and Search Updates Delayed](https://stspg.io/f5j531kp3l4f) | minor | 4h 16m |
| 2026-10-21 | [Fanlore Downtime](https://stspg.io/8mb5950vndgq) | critical | 10h 39m |
| 2026-10-14 | [AO3 Experiencing Issues](https://stspg.io/ctwgzzqzk98p) | minor | 1h 49m |
| 2026-08-06 | [Fanlore Experiencing Issues](https://stspg.io/yr2lltt1f09t) | critical | 6d 14h |

## Components (4)

1 with issues (listed above), 3 operational.

Each component has its own page: /status/archiveofourown/{component}.md, for example /status/archiveofourown/archive-of-our-own.md

## Links

- HTML page: /status/archiveofourown
- Upstream: https://www.otwstatus.org
- All services: /status.md