For those of you trying to get your head around why Archive of Our Own (AO3) is not working and throwing an error 502 or 400 bad request, worry not, as you are not the only one facing the issue right now.
We are seeing a large number of reports from AO3 users who say the service is down and not working for them. Following are some of the reports for you to take a quick glance at:
is ao3 down i need my daily fanfic fix
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YALL STILL GOT AO3 DOWN CMON I WANNA READ SBI FOUND FAMILY
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What’s good is the company has officially acknowledged the outage, saying they’re investigating the problem in question. Here is their official statement and followed by the updates on the matter:
We’re experiencing some slowness and errors at the moment and are looking into the cause. Detectiveads