Archive of Our Own may go offline for up to 4 weeks

The fan-fiction site AO3 reportedly says it could be down for up to four weeks. Its status page drew millions of views and heavy social media reaction within hours of the announcement.

Timeline

1. 29 Oct, 22:00 UTCFirst appeared on Google Trends
2. 29 Oct, 22:00 UTCTechCrunch covers possible 4-week outage
3. 29 Oct, 22:00 UTC404 Media covers site's downtime announcement

Top sources

• ao3 outageGoogle Trends
• AO3 could be down for a month. Fanfiction readers are not OK.Mashable
• AO3 Is Down for TWO TO FOUR WEEKS! AHHHHHH!Nerdist