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Bad Wolf      84 days ago  # 1 Jan 2023 + 1 -
Not working at the moment. Was reading something then it stopped and came up with error 503. Hope it comes back soon.

Guest      204 days ago  # 3 September 2022 + 0 -

It is the best site for posting fanfiction because you can do all the things that fanfiction.net forbids. This site protects the authors and their works by allowing the authors to limit readership to members only and it keeps the nasty commenters off the site.

Guest      293 days ago  # 6 June 2022 + 0 -

Sometimes, AO3 will not load when i click on the next chapter. Despite turning on and off the wifi it still won't load.

Guest      367 days ago  # 24 March 2022 + 0 -

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Marvin      1125 days ago  # 25 Feb 2020 + 0 -
Archiveofourown.org website is not working for me: I'm not on it. My Archive.org link is in a text file at the root of this page, but it's weird for an old software update. Any ideas? I have additional copies of the files I'm trying to archive, but only one of them is working. The files I want to archive have modified versions. You have to use the same release to archive the files, because using different versions would corrupt the archive I found that Archiveofourown.org does not use the first method, but has a database at http://archiveofourown.org/front.php I had to find a way to make it work for me.