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Popular Fan Fiction Site AO3 Could Be Offline for a Month Following ‘Security Incident’
"Black October" comes for the fan fic.
By Gizmodo
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The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out.
The nonprofit behind AO3, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), initially announced Thursday that the website was down for maintenance.
But later updates revealed that the outage was more serious than routine maintenance. OTW warned that restoring the website could take at least two weeks and possibly up to four weeks.
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